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Comedian drops I Did My Best – Greatest Hits the same week as new albums from Nicki Minaj, Ke$ha and a load of other megastars. By Kara Warner, with reporting by Matt Elias Dane Cook Photo: Getty Images With all the hype surrounding MTV News’ musical Mega-Release Week — Bieber! Kanye! Nicki! Ke$ha! Jay-Z! MCR! — you might not be aware of yet another album hitting stores this week: Dane Cook’s I Did My Best – Greatest Hits. Lucky for us, the man behind the album stopped by our office to discuss his just-released comedic stylings, as well as his thoughts on the other big albums dropping this week. So why release a greatest-hits album? “I’ve been doing stand-up comedy 20 years altogether — ten years of recording tracks and club sets and arena sets,” Cook explained. “So I thought it would be a great way to close out the decade, a great ‘thank you’ to fans to say, ‘These are the high-water marks that we shared,’ remaster it, make it sound great. To new fans that are always discovering me saying, ‘Where do I start?,’ this is really the collection of what I think are the highlight moments,” he said. And for the die-hard fans out there who already have some of those greatest hits, he included a bunch of unreleased tracks on the album as well. “There’s something for everyone on there,” he assured us. Regarding his competition in the new-releases category, we asked Cook to share his thoughts on some of the big names. First up, Kanye West. “Never heard of him. What is he about?” Cook deadpanned. “Kan-J? Kanye? I’m just going to call him West. That’s great. I’ll definitely look him up.” With Nicki Minaj, Cook pretended that we were asking about something suggestive — “Oh, no, I’m thinking of a m