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In , Clay became the first person to get banned by MTV the previous year. The network honchos apparently didn't dig the jokes about "banging fat girls. Thinking back on it today, it's hard to believe the act ever existed, much less at the highest level of the business.

In his early stand-up days in New York comedy clubs, Clay carved out a comedy niche of misogynistic humor, which got plenty of laughs from women. In , he moved to Los Angeles, where he caught the eye of Comedy Store owner Mitzi Shore, who gave the budding comic, a Brooklyn Jew, an opportunity to work on his metamorphosis into the Italian "Diceman" persona with the street-tough voice and cock-of-the-walk attitude. He became the "Guido" type that Manhattanites deride for their weekly Saturday night incursions into their island from outposts like Bayonne and Newark.

Diceman's mentality was blue-collar all the way. His physical presentation was based on the garish stage costume of Elvis Presley, which suited his total lack of subtlety. Clay's act caught on. The HBO special, The Diceman Cometh , placed his lewd, rude, and crude humor at the top rung of the comedy ladder. The demand for his performances would soon outnumber the available dates, which were all in large venues.

Clay became only the second man, after George Burns, to be on the cover of Penthouse magazine. He ramped up his raunch with each performance, but that's not what threatened to topple him from his perch. When feminist attorney Gloria Allred said of Diceman's comedy, "It's hate speech disguised as comedy," she was signalling the trouble that was on the way for the comic whose performances had become chock-full of scathing slurs against women, dwarves, Latinos, Pakistanis, beggars, paraplegics, Asians, and other minorities with "urine-colored" complexions "wearing their laundry on their head.

Who We Are. Then his entire career came crashing down. Even to this very day, Dice still defends his controversial act: "I just really commit to what I do as a performer. Email Address. Sign Up. Hide Show Actor 41 credits. Sonny Knox. Sonny Knox voice. Show all 6 episodes. Andrew Dice Clay. Show all 13 episodes. Caller voice. Winchester Goes to Washington Grant voice.

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