Andrew Dice Clay's first comedy album pales in comparison to his classic "The Day The Laughter Died". It's so-so, a mixed bag. Yes, it's chauvanistic, biogted, and sometimes funny. This was released when Dice was the epitome of cool in comedy. A lot of the humor though just comes across as outright mean spiritedness and his dirty Mother Goose rhymes routine is a rip off of a George Clinton song. The content is pretty much what you'd hear on your average hardcore rap album. So know what to expect. It doesn't quite hold up to repeat listening like "The Day The Laughter Died" though.
August 29, 2007I had the great misfortune my first semester of college sharing a room with a DICE fan ... right before most folks realized just how truly mediocre (to put it kindly) Andrew Dice Clay is.
Let me clarify one thing first: my problem was NOT the offensiveness of the Diceclown. He's dirty, vulgar, offensive, bla bla bla. Yeah, let's get past that for a moment, that's not what concerns me.
There are GOOD vulgar comedians. Clay is not one of them. Clay isn't just bad, he's AGGRESSIVELY BAD. Most of his ACT is just ramblings of things that sound curiously familiar from the playground at gradeschool. By that I mean, it's pretty much "hey check this out, I made another doodie" but none of it is really CLEVER. At no point, listening to this yo-yo did I ever say to myself, "man, where did he ever come up with that one? How did he even think of that?" This man is not a slick WRITER, that is the key piece of my problems with him. His is not complex, clever material. I don't think he's a good story teller either. And dirty nursary rhymes? WHO can't come up with those on their own? You take pre-existing material that is fundamentally simple in design with already laid out rhyme schemes and simple, digestable rhythm structures ... make it sexual ... it ain't that hard. By fifth grade, most of us have been able to successfully compose a dirty limmerick.
Clay was a momentary novelty act, and yes, the FAD was big and lucrative for a little while, but the star faded. How does George Carlin stick around for DECADES AND DECADES? Carlin can write good material and he can still SURPRISE us. After listening for five minutes to the Dicechild, nothing he says is really ever surprising.
Am I being unfair? I really don't think so. I admit, the guy was good at coming up with some catch phrases for himself which admittedly was tempting to use around the halls of my dorm. He played his CHARACTER well, but when the night is over, that's really all it is: A CHARACTER ... A CARTOON EVEN (like Larry the Cable Guy?) And regardless of how well he plays this character, at no point do I find myself in AWE of the man's mind. Guys like Izzard, I wonder how anyone can keep up with him. Guys like Clay ... I moved way past him. This album was a waste of time, I'm sorry.
But like I said, I'm not hating him just cuz we're all supposed to hate him, I've justified it with reasons.
September 4, 2006 |  | Filthy yet highly entertaining |  |
Andrew Dice Clay seems like the last comedian on earth I, a timid conservative, would ever listen to; maybe that's why I became a fan of his during my college days and remain a fan to this day. I had suitemates in my dorm who cursed and told dirty jokes like sailors on shore leave who wouldn't listen to the Dice man's crude humor, yet I think the guy is hilarious. The fact that other people hated him so much made him even more appealing to the rebel in me. I will admit that much of his humor makes me very uncomfortable, but I love it nonetheless. This first album is actually quite inferior to the ones that would follow it, but it introduced the Dice man in full force to the public in all of his (vain)glory. The cigarette gimmick was already perfected, his dirty Mother Goose rhymes had already seeped into the collective unconscious, his no-holds-barred sexually graphic material was honed to a sharp point, his proclivity for interacting with his audience and always having a stinging comeback ready for any smart remark sent his way made him untouchable, and his knack for insulting people of all races, religions, and sexual orientations was legendary. The Dice man told the jokes that were too racy for seemingly fearless comics such as Richard Pryor and Redd Foxx. That's what he did, and he did it better than anybody else ever has. I imagine that, buried beneath the shock and horror displayed outwardly by some individuals accidentally running across material such as this, there is a lot of internal laughter that many refuse to acknowledge to anyone else. You can't take Dice too seriously. He may resort to the worst types of jokes on earth, but he certainly puts on an entertaining show. In this first album, he takes on subjects such as sex, smoking, sex, growing up, sex, race, foreigners, sex, marriage, sex, dating, sex, and sex (to name a few). Needless to say, this is Adults Only material, and I might caution listeners that a little of the Dice attitude may rub off on you temporarily after listening to him. If you are unfamiliar with Dice's unique brand of over-the-top humor, I would recommend you start with The Day the Laughter Died as it is actually much funnier than this album.
April 3, 2003 | | About as Funny as a Coronary | |
Over a decade ago, Andrew Silverstein was stretching his 15 minutes of fame as far as it could go with his tasteless comedy. He was selling out arenas, doing appearances on MTV and making a then high-profile appearance on Arsenio. Soon thereafter, the mainstream started to wise up and realized he's really just another sham, and he faded into obscurity. Here is the album that made him famous, and it's funny only if you're under 14 and happen to break out in giggles at the sound of the "f-bomb." People, I think this is as bad as it gets. I remember buying this CD out of curiosity in college. It was so disgusting I sold it the very next day and took a hot shower because listening to it made me feel so unclean. If you haven't already exposed yourself to the "work" of Andrew "Dice" Clay, there's no reason to do so now. He's a has-been and should stay that way.
July 19, 2002Andrew dice clay is the best comedian ever. He says things that people only think about. Thats what makes it funny. He says all the things you want to say when your pissed off at a situation. When you get mad at a spouse, and want to tell her off, but don't. Well he says basically what you were thinking.
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