Well, this is becoming a trend. Dane Cook is the most recent comedian getting a Broadway debut…

Dane Cook, the standup comic and a featured actor in films like “Dan in Real Life” and “Mr. Brooks,” has become the latest funnyman to enlist for a tour of duty of Broadway: he’ll star opposite Josh Hamilton in a production of Neil LaBute’s “Fat Pig” that is planned for the spring, press representatives for the show said on Thursday.

Fat Pig is an acclaimed Neil LaBute play about a man, of average weight, who falls in love with a large woman and is ridiculed by his coworkers as a result. Dane would play the character of Carter, a superficial office mate attempting to convince the main character to dump his new girlfriend.

For comedians, Mr. Cook said, Broadway is “the deus ex machina,” adding: “You want it to come down and you want to be part of that closing moment.”

Laughing at his highfalutin vocabulary, Mr. Cook explained it was a holdover from the years he spent in high school as a summer stock performer, and “my old Cole Porter song-and-dance days, when I used to have dalliances with those words.”

“I was wearing the top hat and the tails,” Mr. Cook said. “‘Anything Goes’ was actually the first play I ever did. Maybe that’ll be the next step.”

About a month ago it was also announced that Robin Williams would make his own Broadway debut (as an actor in a play) next year. Jim Gaffigan and Chris Rock are also slated for Broadway debuts. Ben Stiller and Bobby Canavale will be returning to Broadway. Currently on Broadway, Ben Walker stars in the critically acclaimed Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. And of course, who could forget Matt Stone and Trey Parker's The Book of Mormon?!

So, to all the producers without comedians in their Broadway plays this upcoming season: Get on that shit! Classically trained actors aren't fun! Rob Schneider for A Raisin in the Sun!