Dane Cook is dragging the ghosts of John Belushi and Steve Martin into a nasty legal battle over dog poop -– despite the fact that one of the comics isn't even dead yet!
After a judge ruled to evict Cook from his Hollywood apartment last month because nobody picked up after the comic's crap-happy dog, Dane has decided to fight the decision with one of the most bizarre legal arguments we've ever heard –- that Belushi and Martin's supernatural leftovers have a serious affect on his career.
Cook claims he only rented the apartment in the first place because his heroes, Belushi and Martin, used to live in the same complex back in the day, and according to the court docs filed in L.A. County Superior Court, he would suffer serious "mental and emotional" damage -- and his career would crumble -- if he was forced to leave. In the docs, Cook claims, "I know that the presence of those that have lived there before me affects me deeply and provides me with inspiration."
Cook went on to say, "In the same way that writers can get writer's block, comedians can really easily run out of ideas and 'stories'; I am extremely frightened that this will happen to me if I am forced to move out of my apartment. I've seen it happen to other comics, that something interferes with their connection to their creative muse, and it's destroyed careers."
In the three pages of desperate begging and pleading for the judge to hear his appeal, Cook also adds that he will cut a $40,000 check to the owner of the apartment ASAP to cover all of the suffering that his dookie-droppin' doggie has caused, if he is allowed to stay.
No word if Cook channeled Belushi to pen this appeal -– but it did smell suspiciously like a bottle of Jack Daniels.
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Didn't TMZ just tell us that he recently bought a $7 million dollar home in Hollywood? Why would he need the apartment?
some one should let Dane Cook know he's really not funny - nor is a he even a half way decent actor - moving out and losing his 'muse' def won't hurt his performance... he really can't get much worse.
I thought a few weeks back you guys posted a picture of his new house he just bought? Whatever happened to that to make him keep begging for this place??
"In the same way that writers can get writer's block, comedians can really easily run out of ideas and 'stories'; That's why he steals everybody else's material! He is the unfunniest person on the planet. How is he even employed, seriously?
Poor Dane Cook.
Obviously he suffers from A.D.Dee-de-dee!
this just proves what I have known all along-DANE COOK IS NOT FUNNY!
what happened to the new digs he bought ??? hummm... maybe the financing didn't go through...more like he has to stay there !!!...
Do any of you knuckleheads not see this as anything but him being Dane Cook. Making fun of people with ridiculous lawsuits.
Once again, people coming on here claiming he is not funny. Yet he has sold millions of cds. And he is funny.
For the guy that claims he is a plageristic comedian. WHo did he copy? Come on now. You must have him confused with Carlos Mencino
Just one more person wondering about the story TMZ ran about him buying a new house. Comment, TMZ?
