DANE COOK'S $12 MILLION BETRAYAL!
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I gotta ask, Dave, how does a guy not notice $12 million,
and you've said it's up to, it's
actually more like $17 to $22 million,
how do you not notice that money missing?
I'm looking at two things.
I'm looking at the next 12 million that's going to be coming in.
And I'm looking at all the thousands
and thousands and thousands of fans
that are facing me night after night in these arenas.
And I've got the best brother seemingly
in the world with his arm around me.
But I don't know at the time what we
now know, which was he was the devil.
My brother was the devil.
Did he totally wipe you out?
So check this out.
I was doing a film with Steve Carell called Dan in Real Life.
Oh, love that movie.
I remember the day.
I was exhausted preparing to film my Madison Square Garden,
Rough Around the Edges, live from Madison Square Garden.
I'm filming the movie.
I've got...
Four weeks before I have to be on stage in New York City,
he came down.
We had literally a fireside chat at the hotel that I was staying at.
Me, Juliette Binoche, the whole cast, Diane Weist, John Mahoney.
It's an embarrassment of riches.
And this, you know, Arlington schlub is in the mix, you know,
making movies, you know, after growing up,
you know, on the fringe of A-Town.
He comes down, he puts a...
Bunch of paper in front of me goes, you got to sign all these things.
And then I got to drive right back to Boston.
I said, oh, Daryl, I'm so tired.
I can't even, you don't need to read any of it.
But one of them is going to give me permission to move quicker
while you're working over
the next four weeks.
Power of attorney.
And that was the day I signed power of attorney.

