Andrew Dice Clay Posted Fri Jun 16 11:27:49 BST 2000 by Barney Sloane

Does anybody out there know about Andrew Dice-Clay? Matt Stone and Trey Parker from South Park said that he was a really mad subversive comedian, closer in spirit to Andy Kaufman's "Tony Clifton" than Bernard Manning. Can anybody shed some light on this? I saw his Nuremberg rally-style standup show (The Diceman Cometh) on Sky years ago, as well as his film "Adventures of Ford Fairlaine", and I thought they were both offensive and unfunny, but was I missing the point?

(He's currently on a comedy on Paramount called Hitz, and it's absolute cack. Especially as it follows the cartoon "Duckman" which is really funny.)

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Posted By Jon on Fri Jun 16 13:21:18 BST 2000:

Morwenna Banks did a doc. for C4 about "The Comedy Of Hate" about 1989, which had something in it about him. I think it's discussed somewhere in SOTCAA, but I can't remember.

Clay seems to be the US stand-up that no British stand-ups laud.

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Posted By ML on Fri Jun 16 20:19:12 BST 2000:

Matt Stone and Trey Parker from South Park said that he was a really mad subversive comedian, closer in spirit to Andy Kaufman's "Tony Clifton" than Bernard Manning.

I remember him breaking down and crying on oprah or one of those shows a while back. Maybe we all misunderstood him. But let's not forget that his success was down to the redneck bigots that attended his shows and bought his records. Whatever. Let's NOT start comparing him to Andy Kaufman, who was patently one of the greatest comedians ever to walk the earth.

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Posted By Justin on Sat Jun 17 11:09:33 BST 2000:

Basically ripped off Sam Kinison's act, and whether you loved or hated Kinison, at least he "meant it, man". Clay, on the other hand, once he realised that audiences were deserting him, started talking about it being just an act (translation: I'm not responsible for my own material), then started being in rubbish sitcoms. I saw him in a thing called Bless This House on Channel 4 a few years ago (and no, it wasn't an American remake of the Sid James/Diana Coupland show). It was hopeless, and he was trying to be Mr. Nice Guy. Imagine Jerry Sadowitz in The Upper Hand? Exactly....

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