Andrew Dice Clay - Day the Laughter Died
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Artist: Andrew Dice ClayEdition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 1990-03-16
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- First Kiss
- Holiday Season
- Tree
- Texas
- Places to Meet Chicks
- Gift
- Divider
- Personal Deliveryservice
- Female Anatomy
- Under 2 Minutes
- Kids
- Mothers, Daughters, & Sisters
- 1990
- Jerkin' Off
- Milk & Shampoo
- Laughter Vs. Comedy
- While the Cat's Away...
- What'll It Be
- Pizza
- Concave
- Frozen Food
- Osmonds
- Hot Mama
- Turn-On Words
- Rhyme Renditions
- True Stories
- Automatic Pilot
- Dogs & Birds
- Women Comics
- Cigarettes
- History Lesson
- Judy
- Mother & Son
- A+
- What Did She Say?
- Double Date
- Multiple Sclerosis
- How Are Ya?
- Silence Is Golden
- Hour Back...Get It?
- Something Soft
Free Music Notes for Day the Laughter Died
Free Music Review: Forgotten Classic from Another Time
Hit: 5 Stars
Before I start this review, let's go into the fact the Andrew "Dice Clay" Silverstein never intended his "character" to be taken totally seriously. It was a charaicture of a "brooklyn bad boy", a sexist urban tough macho guy who lives to get laid, get drunk, and be rowdy.
That said, he sure had his share of controversy during his "era" that of the late eighties, early nineties. Like "Borat" after him, he never broke out of character, and went on many talk shows and awards shows (most infamously the Mtv Music Video Awards) with his image, getting "banned" from Mtv and other places.
Now on to the question, is the "act" funny?
It really depends on one's perception of what "funny" is. On this album, he's not only unfunny at times (pathetically), it borders on self-parody.
However, before you think I am bashing this record, I believe this to be the greatest album Dice has done, and also one of the best comedy records.
Why, you ask? Because it stands as a concept album of sorts, and its "concept" is so unfailingly awful, its like a bad car accident, we can't help but watch. I know that Dice intended to go to Dangerfield's that night with no material (though he had a few things already memorized) and he proceeds to berate the crowd with insults, say obscene things to the crowd (even after half of them had left (!)) and be a general obnoxious jerk..
In this, he succeeds, in spades.
I think part of the appeal is that he is slightly tongue in cheek about the whole affair, but play acts the thing so seriously that he starts to sound angry around the second disk.
He then explodes in some really pathetic monologues about Catfish and so on, and even stumbles mid sentence with an attempted joke about Penthouse (Second disk as well).
He sounds downright annoyed when asked to do his "nursey rhymes" even if the delivery on here (when he does a half-hearted attempt at some) is generally funnier than on some of his other albums.
Some of the funnier tracks are where he is just relentlessly attacking the crowd for their sweaters, girlfriends and boyfriends, and perceived sexual habits.
I think famous internet reviewer Mark Prindle had it best when he called this a comedy classic.
Its definitely not for the light hearted or the politically correct, but its done in such a way that I don't think its too far removed from something like Sarah Silverman or others would do nowadays (just the opposite sex).
"Hour Back, Get It?" is one of the more "scraping the bottom of the barrel" tracks for laughs, and it almost reminds me of some annoying kid in elementary school yelling weird stuff just for attention. That said, its so "bad its good" applies here, I find myself laughing at his delivery and performance of the bit. In fact, I think that's half the appeal of dice, delivery and timing.
Back to the humor bit: I generally enjoy stuff like the Jerky Boys, (early) Tom Green, and other similar stuff that's FUNNY, but almost bordering on ridiculous and unfunny. Its this gray area that I believe to have the potential for much of my preferred humor, stuff that's so unfunny at times that its funny ("So bad its good" irony once again), and when the moment comes when its actually "funny" (which there are times on here where its just that), its gutbustingly hilarious.
I think that its time this album got its due, with its unique concept, "anti-humor" and generally pathetic attempts at humor (and other juvenile, genuinely funny moments as well). I think its a great album, and I will continue to listen to it throughout my life.
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