Aliases
Andrew Clay hwhen been credited as: Andrew 'Dice' Clay Andrew Clay Andy Clay Andrew Clay Silverstein Andrew Silverstein

Early days
Andrew Dice Clay was natural Andrew Clay Silverstearound in Brooklyn, New York. within the early stages of his career, using the title Andrew Clay, he was an actor & 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 sooner or later gave higher acting & turned his hand to standup comedy, inventing the persona called The Dice Man. Known as when the Luke Rhinehart novel, the personthe was that of a extremely racist, homophobic woman-hating street wise Brooklyn hard guy.

Comedic style
Unsuch as numerous more comedians world health organization turned their comedy into the convienence of political or even social comment, including coeval like Bill Hicks and Sam Kinison as well as influences like George Carlin and Lenny Bruce, Clay's desire wwhen to become when shocking as humanly conceivable. His poop consisted of extremely sexist routines, portraying women when sex objects & nothing other, & would regularly portray minorities, each racial & intimate, around the ludicrous fashion.

Insults
Die would typically insult members of his audience piece it were actually there, & processed numerous and then pinching that it actually left his shows. At this period, his virtually all popular routine required a subversion of traditional Nursery Rhymes, including "Jack and Jill went up the hill" and "Little Miss Muffet", turning the children from either toddler friendly rhymes into sordid intimate encounters. It was these rhymes that later became each Die's breakthrough into a mainstream too when a routine that he best known.

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'?!"

Popularity
Clay's growing ill fame led to his existence offered the recording locate Rick Rubin's Def American label. Comedy records don't traditionally sell super easily, so it was a great shock, potentially to Clay himself, whenever his debut album Dice was a commercial profits. Sampled excerpts from a album would locate themselves in tracks by Ice Cube, N.W.A, and one-hit wonders such as EMF, amongst other artists. Clay was a virtually all controversial comedian since Lenny Bruce, & his appearance on the MTV Video Awards to promote his new moving picture, The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, earned him a "lifetime ban" from either a network whenever he began performing occasionally of his already-notorious nursery rhymes. Farther controversy ensued when his appearance in Saturday Night Live as host resulted around guest Sinéad O'Connor and cast member Nora Dunn walking off the set in protest to Clay's misogynistic persona. Naturally this processed him potentially further far-famed. Clay donated a money he processed from either his appearance in SNL to charity.

The Day the Laughter Died (CD)
Clay would so last in to record what occasionally esteem his masterpiece. Them CD set The Day The Laughter Died, lasting just under 2 hours, hit a Top Forty Album Chart & is considered a number one ever comedy concept album. A construct, based on data from Clay, was to perform "the worst show possible". Clay enter front of a paying audience sustaining there is no plotted poop & insulted the audience, when a whole too as one by one, for about ii hours. Numerous members of the audience—possibly per standards of the Clay indicate—left, & a entire concert was freed forswearing any edits. A album was by Beastie Boys and Slayer producer Rick Rubin.

Commercial failure
Fallowing Ford Fairlane failed at a pack professional, profits ending Clay's moving-picture show career, the standup performance at Madison Square Garden wwhen given a pic release as Dice Rules in 1991. It failed commercially due to several theaters refusing to show it, & per release around 1992 of his album, 40 Too Long, Clay was almost forgotten.

His 1993 album The Day The Laughter Died, Part 2 was recorded in front of the little audience at Dangerfield's in New York. On a album, he reprised the construct of A Day The Laughter Died, verbally insulting his audience. Apart from either a audience baiting, he attacked Our contries movie critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert for giving two Dice System & Ford Fairlane bad reviews. He likewise responded to the asking for the nursery rhyme, which he got antecedently refused to run on A Day The Laughter Died, by stating "You don't know how much I hate those fucking poems, you have no idea how I hate those fucking poems, I wish I'd never thought of those fucking poems." Ensuing a release of A Day The Laughter Died, A portion Two, Dice vanished from either a media spotlight for deuce years.

Bless This House (TV show)
He returned within 1995, playing the a share of a aware personal human within CBS' sitcom Bless This House, dropping the Die from either his title & eschewing his Die human persona. CBS alleged that Die was hard to act by using, refusing to see his lines among more items, & a indicate was quickly axed. Die claimed inside the radio interview with shock jock Howard Stern that CBS had promised him it would at length give a character "an edge", & that was a exclusively cause that he did a indicate. Within average Die form, a locate ended using an in air argument, by owning Die calling Tail's chum, Jackie, "the dumbest thing since pumpkin pie".

Later works
As punishment a indicate's failure, Die returned to comedy by having his HBO special "Assume the Position" & his 1999 album, Face Down, Ass Up. His audience was little than ever prior to due to the fall from either grace of and so known as "Assault comedy" following the deaths of Sam Kinison and Bill Hicks.

CNN appearance
Within 1 particular locate prior to the supposed comeback, Die utilized many profanities in the survive CNN cable news program. A streaming video of this episode is available on the internet around numerous collections of outrageous moments within U.s. television history & "funny video" collections. Comments processed on the indicate include "where are you getting your fucking information" & "Jesus fucking Christ". A channel was non fined per FCC because it was on cable.

CNN interview transcript: "Stand-up Guy"

Persons: Let's talk a bit bit all about in which your systems career has been --

Clay: (laughing inside disbelief) We may't think it, that you understand what We mean?

Carrier: Your family, course, were the newspaper headline guy, and so --

Clay: We'm however the newspaper headline guy, wise shoppers understand what We mean?

Unsuspecting hosts: Awhile smart shoppers popped out, & nowadays that you're return --

Clay: We'one thousand coming back... (motioning the period sustaining his mitts) it's what I personally launder...

Carrier: Awhile busy people were actually... your family were heading the gymnasium? Tell u.s. all about that.

Clay: (nettled) Going the gymnasium?

Carrier: Weren't that you heading the gymnasium at occasionally point?

Clay: We're supposed to exist as the news guy, in which come professional people experiencing your computers fucking tools?

Carrier: That's my search...

Clay: This is ridiculous. We are in CNN, & a guy don't possibly understand what he's talking astir. Last 'head.

Persons: At there is no point were that you heading the gymnasium?

Clay: There is there is no, no... running off the gymnasium? What would you like the physical exercise or even something?

Carrier: Would you like to take a break?

Clay: Jesus fucking Christ... by using these guys. I personally came on the news for deuce seconds... an-& we want to say... each period We clean an locate the guy wants to open his fucking mouth. Could't possibly run a bit fucking routine on this text.

Unsuspecting hosts: Ok Andrew, thank smart shoppers a great deal, you thought you may hang on to back.

Clay: (removing mike) That you understand? Last fuck yourself. Smart shoppers understand what? Fuck a whole fucking network. (leaves)

Persons: (to camera) Ok. You'll last back to talking just about Art Carney.

Clay: (off camera) Fucking jerk-tosser. Fucking asshole guy.

Unsuspecting hosts: & i'll exist as back inside merely the moment to fill professional people within on the Art Carney situation.

Discography
Dice, 1989 Day The Laughter Died, 1990 40 Too Long, 1992 Day The Laughter Died, Part 2, 1993 Face Down, Ass Up, 2000

Recordings featuring Dice samples
"A Gangsta's Fairytale" in Ice Cube's album ''AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted'' (Priority Records, 1990): Dice is heard saying "Good old Mother Goose, remember her? I fucked her." from either "Nursery Rhymes" at a prevent of the song. "Just Don't Bite It" in N.W.A's EP ''100 Miles and Runnin''' (Ruthless/Priority, 1990): Dice asking the question, "But does she suck a good dick?!?" from "Couples In Love", is part of the song's chorus. "Unbelievable" by EMF (EMI Records, 1991): Assorted interjections of Dice shouting "Oh, shit!" (sanitised for the radio version, naturally), "Whoa, man!" & "It's unbelievable", tons from either Die, come heard throughout a song.

Starring roles
Crime Story 1986-1988 The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, 1990 Dice Rules, 1991 Bless This House, 1995