Andrew Dice Clay

Andrew Dice Clay (born September 29, 1957) is an American comedian and actor.

Early days

Andrew Dice Clay was born Andrew Clay Silverstein in Brooklyn, New York. In the early stages of his career, using the name Andrew Clay, he was an actor and appeared in '80s low-budget porn films, along with sitcom appearances on M*A*S*H and Diff'rent Strokes and a regular role on Crime Story. He eventually gave up acting and turned his hand to standup comedy, inventing a persona known as The Dice Man. Named after a Luke Rhinehart novel, the persona was that of a highly racist, homophobic woman-hating street wise Brooklyn tough guy.

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Brooklyn - New York - '80s - Porn - M*A*S*H - Diff'rent Strokes - Crime Story - The Dice Man - Luke Rhinehart - Racist - Homophobic - Woman-hating

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Comedic style

Unlike many other comedians who turned their comedy into a tool of political or social commentary, including contemporaries like Bill Hicks and Sam Kinison as well as influences such as George Carlin and Lenny Bruce, Clay's desire was to be as shocking as humanly possible. His material consisted of highly sexist routines, portraying women as sex objects and nothing more, and would regularly portray minorities, both racial and sexual, in a derisory fashion.

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Bill Hicks - Sam Kinison - George Carlin - Lenny Bruce

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Insults

Dice would often insult members of his audience while they were actually there, and made many so uncomfortable that they actually left his shows. At this time, his most popular routine involved the subversion of traditional Nursery Rhymes, including "Jack and Jill went up the hill" and "Little Miss Muffet", turning them from child friendly rhymes into sordid sexual encounters. It was these rhymes that subsequently became both Dice's breakthrough into the mainstream as well as the routine that he most despised.

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Subversion - Nursery Rhymes

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Dice's Nursery Rhymes

• "Little Miss Muffett sat on a tuffet eating her curds and whey. Along came a spider, who sat down beside her and said 'Hey, what's in the bowl, bitch?'"
• "Jack and Jill went up the hill, each with a buck and a quarter. Jill came down with two-fifty... that fucking whore!"
• "Little Boy Blue... he needed the money!"
• "Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack burned off his fuckin' dick!"
• "There was an old lady who lived in a shoe. She had so many kids... her uterus fell out!"
• "Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor dog a bone. She bent over, Rover took over and gave her a bone of her own."
• "Mary Mary quite contrary... trim that pussy, it's so damn hairy!"
• "Hickory Dickory Dock, this chick was suckin' my cock. The clock struck two, I dropped my goo and dumped the bitch on the next block."
• "Jack Sprat could eat no fat, his wife could eat no lean. So Jack ignored her flabby tits and licked her asshole clean."
• "Little Bo Peep fucked her sheep, blew her horse, licked his feet, she ate his ass so very nice, tongued his balls not once but twice."
• "Mary had a little lamb she kept in her backyard, when she took her panties off, his woolly dick got hard."
• "Three blind mice, see how they run....where the fuck are they goin'?!"