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As Nasty as He Wants to Be
Smoler, Fredric Paul | October 8, 1990 issue

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This article focuses on works and the life of Andrew Dice Clay, a noted comic performer. Clay's act is at first glance a monotonous torrent of abuse, a very clumsy series of borrowings and a few hopelessly failed attempts to do Foxx or Pryor in whiteface. A second look shows it to be more various, considerably darker and difficult to characterize. Some of Clay's humor is misogynous and racist, some of it is vicious and much of it is infantile at best. A Voice critic wrote something about Clay's drawing his fans the way rotting meat draws maggots, and at "The New York Times" Jon Pareles, reviewing Clay in concert, sounded like a man covering a Nazi rally in late Weimar.

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CLAY, Andrew Dice; JEWISH comedians; WIT & humor; DRAMA; POPULARITY; NIGHTCLUBS; NEW York (State); UNITED States
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