| Retaliation | ||||
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| Released | July 26, 2005 | |||
| Recorded | 2004 | |||
| Genre | Comedy | |||
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| Label | Comedy Central Records | |||
| Producer | Brian Volk-Weiss Dane Cook Jack Vaughn Barry Katz | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Okayplayer | [2] |
Retaliation is the second album by American comedian Dane Cook. It was released on July 26, 2005, by Comedy Central Records.
The CDs contain a concert done by Cook at The Comedy Connection in Boston, Massachusetts. The DVD contains Dane's appearances on Shorties Watchin' Shorties and Crank Yankers, Comedy Central's Denis Leary Roast, and Comedy Central's Bar Mitzvah Bash. The Crank Yankers call Foreign Guy English Lessons is previously unreleased.
The album debuted at #4 on the Billboard 200, which was the most successful comedy album debut since Steve Martin's A Wild and Crazy Guy in 1978[citation needed]. It went gold six days after its initial release and platinum on November 30, 2005. Retaliation achieved double platinum status on February 15, 2007.[3]
As of 2014, sales in the United States have exceeded 1,376,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.[4]
- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ "Okayplayer review".
- ^ "Gold & Platinum". www.riaa.com. Retrieved March 6, 2016.
- ^ "Comedy wins none of the 2014 Billboard Music Awards but all of the focus of this week's magazine issue | The Comic's Comic". 19 May 2014.