Would you like to know what it feels like to own a room with 10,000 people in it? Try asking comic Dane Cook, who brought his "Rough Around the Edges" tour to the Sprint Center in Kansas City Sunday night and had a loyal crowd in stitches.

The Sprint Center is built for live performances by popular music performers, and even though comedian/actor Cook didn't play a single instrument, he brought in a rock star-sized crowd.

The show got off to a late start, with Cook taking the stage a few minutes before 8 p.m. Part of the reason for the delay might have been the Sprint Center's lacking an efficient way to get the large crowd through the limited gates, not to mention the airport-style security precautions involving emptying pockets and walking through metal detectors. I'm not sure who would sneak a shank into a comedy show, but I guess it's better to be safe than bleeding internally.

Cook had no opening comic, which was probably a good thing considering the stage setup being in the round with a blue SU-FI logo on the stage floor. It is a stage that would have been a bore for any typical comic who lacks kinetic energy or expression.

Luckily, Cook has equal amounts of both. He ran out through the crowd like a football player being introduced at the Super Bowl, dressed like a guy who probably shopped too much at The Buckle. It immediately became Dane Cook's holiday tales, sharing his horror stories of holiday shopping with a complaining friend and settling for buying Bonzai trees for less-than-worthy family members.

This also gave him the opportunity to crowbar in a reference to his "Parking Structure" joke from his debut album "Harmful If Swallowed."

That was the way the rest of the show went at times. Like a rock star, Dane Cook knows he has hit jokes with his faithful followers, which mainly consisted of male and females who were between high school-aged and their mid-thirties. Throughout his 80-minute set, he peppered in a few of his more popular jokes from his three comedy albums, including his fascination with his father's "holy s**t package" from his HBO special "Vicious Circle," and the coat defacation bit from his multi-platinum album "Retaliation." This had a duel effect on me, who was anxious to hear some new material after his overall disappointing HBO special but enjoyed the expressions that owners of "Harmful If Swallowed" and "Retaliation" missed out on.

Cook's set was mainly new material on common topics for the demographic of his fans, with jokes about Facebook and video games. Considering the topics he covers, it's hard to believe that Cook is 35 and over a decade older than the majority of his rabid fans.

He also skirted across topics like his childhood love for Benson's Animal Farm, his dislike of backpacks and his desire to fight "the war of Central Park in October" for the ideal weather conditions. Of course, Cook can't perform without talking about sex, which went over perfectly on his sex-crazed fanbase. His stories could potentially be heard in any dorm room in America, whether he is is talking about comparing the intensity of his orgasms, feminine odor, breaking condoms, pregnancy scares and leaving a "bad pancake" on a girl's stomach. Considering his frat-boy-next-door looks, his sex stories drove the females crazy. He even got away with saying that he beat his girlfriend with Nerf bat.

When Cook came back for an obviously pre-meditated encore, he spent about 10 minutes commenting on crowd signs, pointed out a girl's bosums as she walked across the floor and rehashed his joke about a sneezing atheist before running off to a standing ovation.

Very few comedians could harness the energy of a room that size and be big enough to connect to a nose bleed section, but Cook's Jim Carrey-esque physicality, vocal sound effects, Sam Kennison-ish screams and Jerry Seinfeld observations dumbed down to sophomoric levels seemed to do the trick.

Cook aims for the middle with his material. He's shocking without being polarizing and many of his jokes are aimed at the MySpace generation (his bread-and-butter). But his stories about sex are tales everyone could relate to, even if it was a time they have since grown out of.

Cook is not particularly innovative and will be remembered more for his popularity and crossover appeal than his creativity. But Cook sells it, being amusing to everyone and hilarious to his target audience (which included yours truly). Cook's movies may leave something to be desired, but his amalgam of comedy hits enough right notes for enough people to nearly fill an arena to hear one man on a mic.