GOSSIP: Dane Cook Makes Broadway

Dane Cook, who has sold out arenas and starred in several films including Good Luck Chuck and Employee of the Month, is going to make his Broadway debut this spring.

The performer is set to appear in Neil LaBute’s comedy “Fat Pig” about a guy who’s begun dating a large lady, and how the relationship confounds his rude buddy and an ex-girlfriend.

The female roles have yet to be cast, but the part of the man dating the heavyset woman is being played by Josh Hamilton, and Cook is starring as – not surprisingly – the rude dude.

Cook joins a string of other comics who will be on Broadway this spring.

Chris Rock is making his debut in “The Motherf***er with the Hat”; Ben Stiller is starring in “The House of Blue Leaves“; Jim Gaffigan will headline in “That Championship Season”; and Robin Williams will make his Broadway bow as a tiger in “Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo.”