Dane Cook book delayed until this week.

Written by Joe Wilson

LOS ANGELES (PoopyCaca.com) – Stand up comedy mega-star, Dane Cook, is joining the ranks of many comedians by publishing a book of his material, a pop-up book.

The book, titled, “There's So Many Things That I Want To Let You Guys Into My World About,” which is the opening line from Cook’s HBO special, "Vicious Circle," was initially going to be like those published by comedians such as Steve Martin, George Carlin, Ellen Degeneres and Jerry Seinfeld, a book of words. After the publisher, Random House, tested the book with focus groups, it was decided that Dane Cook’s material didn’t translate in written form without Cook’s signature physical delivery. This delayed the book going to press for several months, the release date was originally scheduled to coincide with the HBO series, “Tourgasm.”

According to Random House publicist Donna McGinty, “We didn’t want to publish a book just for Dane’s fans, we wanted anyone to pick up the book and enjoy his comedy, but words alone don’t do it justice, then we thought, hey, pop-up book!”

One of Cook’s “jokes” reads, “If somebody calls and messes with you on the phone like that you don't become terrified, you mess back ... If somebody calls and was like "have you checked the children?" I'd be like "I killed them!" In the previous version of the book in solely written form, the “joke” did not score well with focus groups, but with the addition of a series of “pop-ups” of Dane Cook as he tells the joke, the scores more than doubled.

The new version of the book, coming out later this week, features a series of “pop-ups” of Dane Cook in a variety of poses telling each of the “jokes” written on the page. McGinty explained, “This kind of comic genius, a genius enjoyed by millions of fans, can’t be captured in words alone.”