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== Early life and education == Cook was born in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]],<ref name="biography">{{cite web|title=Biography for Dane Cook |url=http://www.biography.com/articles/Dane-Cook-201310 |access-date=2009-05-14 |work=biography |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091022080945/http://www.biography.com/articles/Dane-Cook-201310 |archive-date=October 22, 2009 }}</ref> the second son of Donna Jean (nΓ©e Ford; died 2006) and George F. Cook (died 2007).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/bostonherald/access/1256619871.html?dids=1256619871:1256619871&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Apr+18%2C+2007&author=&pub=Boston+Herald&desc=Obituary+%3B+George+F.+Cook%2C+veteran%2C+father+of+comedian%2C+at+73&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103211930/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/bostonherald/access/1256619871.html?dids=1256619871:1256619871&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Apr+18,+2007&author=&pub=Boston+Herald&desc=Obituary+%3B+George+F.+Cook,+veteran,+father+of+comedian,+at+73&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 3, 2012|work=Boston Herald|title=Obituary; George F. Cook, veteran, father of comedian, at 73|date=April 18, 2007}}</ref> He has an older half-brother, Darryl, and five sisters. He grew up in a Catholic family<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=[[Yahoo! News]]|title=Does Dane Cook Have as Much Charisma as He Exudes?|date=March 17, 2011}}</ref> of Irish descent.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=37346|title=Dane Cook is Good Luck Chuck|publisher=ComingSoon.net|date=2007-09-13|access-date=2014-04-10|archive-date=2014-04-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413124946/http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=37346|url-status=dead}}</ref> Cook has described himself as having been "pretty quiet, pretty introverted, shy" as a child, although he was a "wild child" at home.<ref name="Lumino">{{cite web|url=http://www.luminomagazine.com/mw/content/view/1/4|title=Dane Cook has no regrets|last=Finstad|first=Ann|date=2005-03-16|access-date=2010-01-03|work=Lumino Magazine|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080905172305/http://www.luminomagazine.com/mw/content/view/1/4|archive-date=2008-09-05}}</ref> He overcame his shyness in his junior year of high school, when he began acting and doing stand-up comedy.<ref name="In Control">{{cite web|url=http://www.mcclainjohnson.com/dane.cook.html|title=Dane Cook: In Control|last=Johnson|first=McClain|work=McClainJohnson.com|access-date=2011-01-03}}</ref> After graduating from high school, he studied graphic design in college as a back-up plan, in case he did not achieve success in comedy.<ref name="dialD">{{cite web|url=http://www.michaelsportfolio.com/PortfolioWeb/Print/Magazine/DaneCook/DaneCook.htm |title=Dane Cook Interview |last=Boyd |first=Michael |access-date=2011-01-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091005013452/http://www.michaelsportfolio.com/PortfolioWeb/Print/Magazine/DaneCook/DaneCook.htm |archive-date=October 5, 2009 }}</ref> He now designs all of his merchandise, including the cover of his album, ''[[Harmful If Swallowed]]''.<ref name="In Control" />
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