The thing about Dice in those days was that you (even if you were a kid) could never exactly tell whether he was subtly mocking the kind of meathead guy who calls all gay people fags and talks incessantly about blowjobs, or if he was just unapologetically pandering to them. If Bobcat Goldthwait was obviously doing a high concept character, and Sam Kinison was obviously just being Sam Kinison, Dice occupied this strange middle world where he began as a normal guy, an impressionist named Andrew Silverstein, who created this character for the stage which then became his entire personality and an industry unto itself. In the late 80s the dude defined shocking persona comedy, selling out massive stadiums like a rockstar. If Andrew Dice Clay is a punchline, he’s also the set-up, and these days he’s the callback too.
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