Andrew Dice Clay: No Apologies (1993)

Not being apologized to is the least of our worries.

First off, humor is not a one size fits all commodity. You could ask ten different people what they think is funny and get at least eight different answers if you decide not to get too detailed about it. For instance, my 14 year-old niece loves Rob Schneider and David Spade. As for myself, I can't stand the two.

Which brings me to Andrew Dice Clay. I'm not going to write him off as worthless because the potential existed for even him to be a good stand up comedian. I remember at one of his concerts he did spot on imitations of Robert Deniro, Al Pacino, Eric Roberts, and John Travolta. During this particular concert, all that potential is flushed down the toilet.

At the time this was filmed, his dubious fame had already peaked and his popularity was well on the downhill slope. His film The Adventures of Ford Fairlane flopped big time and he became the first major entertainer to be banned for life from MTV, or eMpTyV as I prefer to call it. It wouldn't be unusual for someone to harbor some resentment.

Of course, that's the whole problem with No Apologies - too much anger. Instead of telling jokes, he is basically berating the audience with sexually explicit diatribes. It seems as if he was far less concerned about making people laugh than he was about offending them. There's a thin line between giving the people what they want and giving the critics what they hate. All Dice did here was rub the former the wrong way and confirm the feelings of the latter. About ten minutes into this, I just wanted to stand up and say, "Stop it, you're embarassing yourself."

The biggest problem I had with it myself was how he insulted Midwesterners. At least I expected the sexual material, but my mind is still boggled by this blatant bigotry. At the beginning, Dice refers to himself as "the original blue-collar comedian" (I'm paraphrasing here). Yet later in the show he goes on a hate filled rant about people in the Heartland. The details of which I'm not going to get into, and you as a reader are better off not knowing. To make a long story short, it's a slap in the face to all the fans in Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, and all the other blue-collar Midwesterners who supported Dice from when he was a struggling comic. I expected better, even from the Diceman.

It's not that I hate dirty mouth comedians and only love clean ones. George Carlin and the late Richard Pryor will forever be legends according to me. I also find the work of conservative, Christian comedian Brad Stine to be smug, obnoxious, and criminally unfunny even if he does keep it clean. I only expect one thing from my comedians - make me laugh. That did not happen with me here, and chances are, it won't happen with you either. March 23, 2008

Diceman at its best

Andrew "Dice" Clay (né Andrew Silverstein) in one of his best appearances. Even better than the hilarious Dice Rules! However he claims to make fun of everybody cursing spics, japs, chinks midgets, handicapped etc. Still I have yet to hear a kike joke from him.

Anyway, this DVD is a must for the fan of his raunchy type of hunor. October 25, 2005

Not very good overall.

Andrew Dice is more pissed off and obnoxious this time around,and not very funny..There are a few decent laughs but overall its nothing compared to his best show from 1989 'The Diceman Cometh'. I've watched Cometh countless times but I actualy had a hard time finishing a single viewing of No Apologies. January 9, 2004

Get Ova Here!!! Ohhhh!!!

My girlfriend says that when I am drunk, I get loud, obnoxious and just plain stupid. That being said, I think The Diceman must kick back a few drinks before doing his leather jacket clad cigarette smoking filled routine. Otherwise, he's one hell of an actor. His jokes cover everything from women to racism--done in a shock value style long before Eminem was offending everyone and everything. If you wanna see foul mouthed, politically incorrect dialogue delivered by a Jewish goomba from Brooklyn who could just as easily have had a career like Stallone or Travolta (both of whom he imitates to a T along with Elvis and many others), than Dice is your guy. Dice was hugely controversial in the late 80's and early 90's and if I recall he even tried to clean up his act and make a few unfunny family sitcoms. But this is what he does best, and he has since rebounded with a live show out in Vegas and more comedy CDs. If you like Rodney Dangerfield, Joe Pesci and comic geniuses like them, you will enjoy The Diceman. If you are offended by his schtick you need to lighten up. The guy aint the best of all time, but he thinks he is, and that's what makes him cool. November 4, 2003

Dice Rolls Snake Eyes

I ordered this DVD because I couldn't find a DVD of my favorite Dice Clay video - The Diceman Cometh. This act was [...] crap compared to his earlier material. He has replaced the many moments of wit and humor (yes, I'm talkin' about Dice) with simple juvenile crudeness. Now, I can deal the nastiest of the nasty, as long as there is some humor involved, but F-word, C-words, etc... are not particularly funny unto themselves. It looks like Dice just dug the "shock" value of his rep and ran with that. What is worse (at least on my copy) is the SOUND. I guess it was recorded thru the telephone!!! Some of the words I could not even figure out. There are a couple decent moments which might be worth [$], but my time is more valuable than that! August 3, 2001

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