Andrew Dice Clay

In the late 1980s, Andrew 'dice' Clay was the most notorious and controversial comic in the business. Foul-mouthed and abrasive, he was one in a long line of comedic performers whose material stretched the boundaries of decency and good taste to their breaking point; unlike pioneers including Lenny Bruce or George Carlin, however, Clay's routines did not evolve out of pointed social satire or trenchant political commentary, but merely a desire to be as lewd and shocking as humanly possible. Racist, homophobic, and misogynistic, his rise to fame was meteoric, and ultimately -- despite retaining a fervent core audience comprised almost entirely of young, white males -- his fall from grace was just as swift.



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