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I mean, the spider calls Little Miss Muffet a bitch.not exactly going to die laughing at that one.His other major thing would be to smoke his cigarette like he was John Travolta in Grease or something. The audience already knew what he was going to say and do before he said it.yet they still laughed feverishly over him.So he had a routine or schtick where he said what the audience expected and that was that. Kind of like Carrot Top.That about sums him up.yet he sold out Madison Square Garden twice. Why did he get so huge from what I would consider so little in the way of comedy?Did I not grow up in the right time period to appreciate Andrew Dice Clay? When the audience is laughing, I literally don't know what they're laughing at for a lot of his stuff. It seems to me they laugh if he says 'fuck you' or 'whore' or other 'bold words' with nothing else really adding to the 'punchline'.Yet, many comics seem to be big fans of Dice, so I don't know.
I'm just trying to get maybe some historical context into why he's actually funny. Even with comics that don't share my particular sense of humor, if the audience is laughing, I usually understand why they're laughing.
It's usually because they're telling a joke. But unless you consider slightly dirty nursery rhymes jokes.or the word 'bitch' to be hilarious, I literally don't know why they're laughing and find that to be more hilarious than anything Andrew Dice Clay is saying.Here's an example of his routine:But this is what it looks like to me (Gilbert Gottfried's impression of him):Another example joke, in it's entirety: 'Three blind mice see how they run. Pause to smoke. Ha! Pause to smoke. Where the fuck are they going?'
Andrew Dice Clay The Day The Laughter Died Rare
Starts around 13 minutes in here:. I'm probably older than most people here, was already an adult in Dice's heyday.
Honestly, I never found him funny. It seemed like the people who did, and would recite his nursery rhymes and laugh at themselves, weren't the most erudite.I really don't get why some really good comedians think he is great. Having heard interviews with him, he was on Joe Rogan's podcast, seemed like an OK guy. On the other hand, the Sklar brothers say he was a dick to them. Everyone has good and bad days. As a performer?
I'll never understand it.Compare him to a contemporary that also sold out huge concert venues, Eddie Murphy. Not all of Murphy's stuff holds up either. His homophobia is cringy these days. But that guy could craft a joke, could tell a great story, and also had charisma.So no, I never understood Dice's appeal, even when I was into hair metal.
I'm definitely not an expert on standup by any means, but typically when I hear other comedians praising Dice they usually mention his second studio album (I've heard a few pretty well known comedians say it might be the greatest standup album ever, in fact). The reason this album gets such high praise is because the entire act is improvised and features Dice appearing before a small, unsuspecting crowd (they didn't know he'd be there). Dice has no material prepared and just goes on stage and interacts with the audience the entire time, usually insulting them.
Some of the audience members get so insulted they storm out while yelling things back and forth with Dice.It's a pretty unique standup album, to say the least, and most comics seem to praise him a lot for just going out on stage like that with nothing prepared and just riffing for 90 minutes or so with an audience which didn't show up specifically to see him (i.e. Not his fans). But they praise him even moreso for putting that out as an album.The things Dice says are all very much in the 'Dice' character, and are super offensive (they were for the time and are even moreso now), being his typical racist, sexist, homophobic, as un-politically correct person as he can be. But the album is definitely something to consider, especially if you are a standup yourself, just because it's such an interesting exercise/performance.
Like Dice says during the act: 'This show's not about laughter. It's about comedy.' True, I'm watching the rest of the act now here:I've got through 2/3 of it and so far he has gone over the nursery rhymes, maintained a tough guy exterior, and talked about getting blow jobs multiple times with no punch lines.I can see how it might be labeled entertainment, but there is no comical commentary/buildup/jokes/punchlines.
Unless the word blow job is enough to make you laugh out loud on it's own, Andrew Dice Clay isn't going to be funny to you.or is he? Obviously I'm wrong.he sold out Madison Square Garden and is one of the biggest comedians of all time. I have a fondness for Dice because he literally was the first comic I ever heard at about 5 years old. But going back and listening to his stuff it can be a bit rough. Though I think there is some brilliance in there. Like even with his nursey rhymes some where just random stuff (that I love) while other's were very clever like 'Jack and Jill went up a hill, both with a buck and a quarter.
Jill came down with 2.50'.Also wasn't he the first comic to sell out Madison Square Garden? To me that's a lot of respect. Like I don't like Dane Cook but I can deny that he changed how comedians connect with fans and use the internet. He was smart. Then didn't dice sell out MSG years later after all his fame went away? That's saying something.Also listen to his double album 'The day the laughter died'.
It's not all funny but the man goes into a comedy club with two small audiences in two nights and does an hour each night off the top of his head with new material-I find that impressive.Oh and he also gave one of my favorite comics, Jim Norton, some of his first big gigs on shows. If you spend a lot of time trying to write nuanced jokes, or do impressions or whatever only to have them ignored, then you see a high energy comic just say 'DICKS' over and over again and kill, you might think to yourself 'Fine, if that's what you're gonna laugh at, I'm gonna scream DICKS louder than anyone.' I've certainly had that thought.I think Dice just yelled 'You big-titted animal!' (or similar) one night after he'd adopted the Dice character and it went over so well he expanded on it.It's not that funny to you young whippersnappers now because you have the Internet and everyone is screaming filth from every rooftop and posting gifs of peoples heads exploding. Back in my day, there wasn't any of that, so a tape of Dice doing nursery rhymes about cocksucking was shocking and hilarious.By the way a 'tape' is like a big weird thumb drive with very limited storage. This is really it.
I was a kid in the 80s so I remember this being pretty funny. It was shocking, this was before Howard Stern could run porn star gagging sounds behind an interview with Paris Hilton's mom. (in reference to her daughter's sex tape) This was a time when Eddie Murphy using mother fucker was considered very blue work.(or as Bill Cosby said 'filth and flarn flarn filth')Dice created a character that was brash and stupid and reminded folks of the working class moron trope. He was a meme. He was a bit of a one trick pony though.
His movie, Ford Fairlane, bombed and he caught the ire of the intellectuals with the character's misogyny and xenophobia. He also never really followed up on his initial success. He had a big album and special and then rode that for a couple of years and has been gone from the popular consciousness ever since.He is a victim of his own success. Had he had time to refine his standup from the yelling and cursing and spent some time building a movie career as a comedic character actor he may be respected today. As it is he is a bit of a joke.
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I'm going to guess that although the guy made money hand over fist in the early 90s not much of it is left. Add to that the fact that he really can't do much to resurrect a career what really wasn't there to begin with.TL;DR He was shock jock. I think you're selling Dice way too short. I'm not even a fan, I'm totally ambivalent about his comedy, but you're dismissing him a little too fast.For one thing, his disappearance from the limelight wasn't just because his movie career tanked and he was out of work. He put his own career on hold to be a father to his kids after his divorce. He's actually the one who emboldened Louis CK to get a divorce by letting him know about his rights as a father and legal options and all that.For another, since he's come back, I've learned just how respected he is by other comics. He was also cast by Woody Allen in his latest movie, and he was great in it.Dice wasn't the best comedian of those who hit the rarified air his career peaked at, but he's not the laughing stock you describe either.
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