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Dane Cook LIVE on Ustream Today
"Dane Cook: ISolated INcident" airs commercial-free at 10pm on Comedy Central
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And while Ustream is certainly not a new phenomenon (2008 election, anyone?), it’s always great to see the internet innovate in ways that behemoth media corporations haven’t. And with their ‘freemium’ model in full effect, Ustream can afford to let a much wider audience get large quantities of content they want, for a much lower price. And that will always be awesome.
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