Thousands of people packed the Schottenstein Center Wednesday night to listen to a guy who has admitted to having feared the Kool-Aid Man as a child.

In the fourth stop of Dane Cook’s “Rough Around the Edges” comedy tour, the star stand-up comedian delighted fans with his high-energy, fast-paced comedy routine. The crowd held up the SU-FI – a hand gesture that Cook has made famous consisting of the middle and ring fingers and the thumb raised with the other fingers lowered, also known as the Superfinger – throughout the night to show its enthusiasm for the Boston-native. It seems he has had the same material for ages, though Cook came out and delivered fresh jokes, which kept the audience laughing nonstop for the 90 minute set.

The arena was set up much like his 2006 HBO special, “Vicious Circle,” with a large, round stage with a stool in the center so Cook could face each direction. He was greeted with a large ovation as he entered the stage, then quickly began his set rambling about taking away optimism from his life.

His knack for finding real-life situations and emphasizing the hilariousness of them is what has made him such an icon. He joked about sparing the amount of toilet paper in his bathroom while abusing it in a friend’s, and he spoke of the “Condom Fairy,” which pops-out of nowhere to give you protection when you know you don’t have any.

Integrated into his new material were bits from his old compact discs, “Harmful if Swallowed” and “Retaliation.” While he used some oldies, including “Not So Kool-Aid” and “Someone S— on the Coats,” he tied most of them in with the new ones. After doing about an hour routine, Cook left the stage, only to come back for an encore.

Cook’s facial expressions and sound effects made the act. His delivery was flawless and made the audience laugh hysterically with every word that came out of his mouth. The only downside, however, was hearing a lot of the same jokes fans have become accustomed to. Of course, there are classics people want to hear, but when going to a comedy show, fans expect originality.

He said after one story, “These are the things I think about while you are all at work.” Hopefully, in the future, Cook can think of more in the two-year span between albums. To his credit, it was a very enjoyable experience filled with a plethora of laughter.

Nicole Keeling, a senior in forensics who had seen Cook in his tour, “Tourgasm,” said she loved the show.

“It was so much better than ‘Tourgasm,'” Keeling said. “He still can relate the old material with the new material. His stories flow together so well.”

Barric Reed, a freshman in biology, agreed.

“I thought it was awesome,” he said. “I like the new stuff that I hadn’t heard before. It was all really good.”

Cook’s new CD/DVD, “Rough Around the Edges,” will be released Nov. 13.

Michael Schwartz can be reached at [email protected].