Dice

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I recently saw Dice on a Young Comedians special - probably right before he got huge, he was KILLING the audience with all his now 'classic' bits.

I've never seen any of his longer specials but I can't imagine he can sustain that kind of momentum without getting very boring. Also, the rhinestone jacket and cigarette thing were total gimmicks.

[samjjones]

For a birthday girl, you've got the biggest, fattest [censored] in the room.

[miajag]

I was like 10 when he was popular so I wasn't exposed to much of his stuff then, but looking back now some of his bits were pretty good. Most of the nursery rhymes are just dumb though.

[Dominic]

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I was like 10 when he was popular so I wasn't exposed to much of his stuff then, but looking back now some of his bits were pretty good. Most of the nursery rhymes are just dumb though.

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clay's routine was performance art. He was making fun of the people who were laughing by being as outrageously stereotypical as could be. The nursery rhymes were supossed to be dumb. The whole jacket and cigarette and mannerisms...he has said he was always amazed that anyone took it at all seriously. It was an act.

[tuq]

I remember going on a trip upstate with my HS golf team, and listening to a cassette of a Dice performance.

On the way up we were all howling, because the first time you hear him it's both shocking and very funny. But then we listened to the tape on the way back and there weren't many chuckles. He just doesn't hold up to replay very well. Most comics don't of course, but him in particular. By contrast, I've seen some Mitch Hedberg youtube clips about a dozen times and still laugh.

[rjoefish]

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I recently saw Dice on a Young Comedians special - probably right before he got huge, he was KILLING the audience with all his now 'classic' bits.

I've never seen any of his longer specials but I can't imagine he can sustain that kind of momentum without getting very boring. Also, the rhinestone jacket and cigarette thing were total gimmicks.

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You recently saw him before he became huge but he used all his old bits from when he was huge?

[Triumph36]

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I recently saw Dice on a Young Comedians special - probably right before he got huge, he was KILLING the audience with all his now 'classic' bits.

I've never seen any of his longer specials but I can't imagine he can sustain that kind of momentum without getting very boring. Also, the rhinestone jacket and cigarette thing were total gimmicks.

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You recently saw him before he became huge but he used all his old bits from when he was huge?

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uh yes - the special was from around 1987, before his career exploded. he did about a 7 minute set with nursery rhymes, the bit about sleeping in the wet spot, etc. i'd already heard half the act from Anthony of Opie and Anthony doing his Dice impression.

Dominic - if the rhymes and the rhinestone jacket were deliberately stupid, what the hell was there to watch about Dice at all? It's not like there's some brilliant political and social theorist lurking under that facade.

[nyc999]

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I thought he was the king of comedy when I was 12 years old. Once I matured a bit...not so much.

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I remember a kid on my bus used to play his tapes on the way to school. So, so funny...back then.

This had its moments, although some of it was unintentional comedy.

[daryn]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6M9C6a1K0nI

contains bad language

[Blarg]

He was hilarious back in the day and stirred up a lot of hate, which is often itself an indicator of something good. It was especially good then, when media was stuck in an insipid PC quagmire.

Agreed that some of the people taking him literally was very dumb. Unfortunately, the climate of PC was so strong back then and he picked up so much hate that it all but crushed his career. More unfortunately, he thought he found a way to get out of it by rolling over and saying he was really a sweet fellow, so he could do a sitcom showing him as a sweeter fellow. When he did that, he lost his base and so didn't really have much left.