Andrew Dice Clay Returns, With at Least Two Personalities Showing
NYT
With
the exception of Bill Cosby, no comic has fallen further than Andrew
Dice Clay. Less than two decades after selling out Madison Square
Garden, he was performing in the back room of a sushi restaurant in Las
Vegas. To critics, he was a joke, shorthand for hateful stand-up
peddling sexism and homophobia. “He will always be vilified,” Chuck
Klosterman wrote in his 2013 book, “I Wear the Black Hat,” arguing
against the possibility of career rehabilitation, “and dying won’t
help.”
And
yet there he was in a Midtown hotel room on Tuesday, a cigarette
dangling from his lips as he flipped open a Zippo lighter with a lucky
horseshoe on it, boasting about the set he was going to perform on “The
Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” in a few hours. “When I come on
Fallon, it will be like Babe Ruth,” he said, enunciating consonants as
if he were angry with them. “I owe it to the public to just devastate.”
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