Funnyman Dane Cook Breaks Stand-Up Comedy Record

Scoring an impressive attainment to mark his career as comedian in the new year, Dane Cook has succeeded in setting up a new record for the longest comedic act at Hollywood's Laugh Factory by performing for seven hours.

Cook beats out previous record made by fellow funnyman Dave Chappelle, who scored a routine lasting six hours and twelve minutes at the club in early December 2007. The "Employee of the Month" star took the stage Tuesday night (Jan. 01) and continued cracking jokes until 07:00 local time on Wednesday morning (Jan. 02).

"I talked about anything and everything. From tigers mauling people to my parents' deaths," he wrote on his blog. "Reconstructive surgery to starting my very own race war. Sex, drugs and anything else that my brain served up."

Meanwhile, the club's owner Jamie Masada revealed to E! Online his regard for Cook, praising the Boston native's feat to be just "amazing."

"Dane kept the energy going. It reminded me at one point of Richard Pryor," he commented. "He made the audience laugh for seven hours...It was really history-making. It was wonderful."

Cook and Chappelle have long been engaged in a rivalry to hold the club's record after the former delivered his comedic act for three hours and fifty minutes in April 2007, shattering record set by Pryor back in 1980. Chappelle, however, later managed to surpass him, coming with a six-hour, seven-minute routine before increasing his record by five minutes on December 4, 2007.

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