Hot dog mishap tested Dane Cook’s resolve, but he wouldn’t quit
Dane Cook is opening up about a chaotic early gig—and the audience’s bizarre reaction that nearly made him walk away.
On the latest episode of Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s Dinner’s On Me, Dane Cook dug up one of the wilder memories from his early club days: taking the stage to a room so hostile, people started pitching their hot dogs at him. He says he literally had to hop around the stage to avoid a barrage of flying franks — and counted them as they sailed by.
“They threw hot dogs at me because they didn’t want me to perform, and I remember all the hot dogs flying. I’m jumping over hot dogs. 15 hot dogs flew over my head,”
Cook admitted he briefly walked off and declared he was done with stand-up. Seconds later, he flipped the script, convinced there was a sign in the chaos.
“Wait, no, I am not gonna quit cause not one hot dog hit me,”
he recalled telling himself — and went back to work.
Modern Family talk
Ferguson also said the Modern Family crew is itching to reunite. The sitcom wrapped in 2020 after 11 seasons and 250 episodes, and six years after the finale, he says the appetite to do more is still there.
“We would love to get back together and do it again,”
Ferguson said on the podcast.
He’s previously mentioned a shelved spinoff centered on Mitchell Pritchett and Eric Stonestreet’s Cameron Tucker, which would have followed the couple’s adventures in Missouri. ABC ultimately passed on the idea.
In the meantime, the cast has kept up their off-camera friendships, reuniting informally over the years:
- Eric Stonestreet — Cameron Tucker
- Ty Burrell — Phil Dunphy
- Julie Bowen — Claire Dunphy
- Sofía Vergara — Gloria Delgado-Pritchett
No official revival or reunion special has been announced.