"Dark Side of Comedy" Andrew Dice Clay (TV Episode 2022) Poster

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8/10
Good overall summary of Dice's comedic career, from someone who was not alive during that era
michiganave_p19 November 2022
The episode did a good job of his back story and where he came from to develop the persona, and then how that persona took over like a runaway freight train with no one really in control including Dice.

It's odd because I like the presentation of what Dice was trying to do, but the content was a whole other story. I was never really a target for him but may have been in his audience if I was around in that time.

I thought the delivery of the jokes was different, unique method worth paying attention to, however the targets were certainly problematic. No one ever really knew, as the comedians in the episode mentioned this a few different times and ways. No one knew where the line was, or what Dice's true feelings or intentions were, and that was the problem. He never made that clear which seemed to be his downfall where no one knew if it was a bit or his reality.
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3/10
First one I watched
volpcas9 September 2022
Warning: Spoilers
So I've enjoyed these Dark Side of shows... and I figured while I know who Dice is I really was not a fan growing up, as someone who grew up in NYC I always thought the schtick was ehh. That being said I wanted to see what went wrong in his career. Wow. What can I say this episode is everything that's wrong with America today. Basically I dont agree with you so you're the devil incarnate. This guy was doing nothing Murphy, Sagat, Pryor, and many comedians before him did as well as after. And the shot at Lovitz at the end, ya know maybe that lady was a bitch, maybe she was "difficult to work with" as they say and that's why she never got another job. Let's be honest not a lot of SNL alum are even C listers.
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3/10
The least they could've done was to ask the man himself!
gina_gemini8 September 2022
The point is Dice is still with us. They went and interviewed every person connected to him by six degrees but never bothered to ask the man himself? Is it really hard to imagine that the character is not the man himself? Can't you realize that they're not 100 percent separate either and that also can be ok? Don't you know how show business works? And can't you understand some act that was relevant 40 years ago can age badly and that's ok too?

If people laugh at a horrible joke nobody's forcing them. But it says something about the state of society or at least parts of it. Nobody breaks a mirror if they don't like the image it reflects. Some people today like to treat society as a group of naive children who constantly need protection. They're most dangerous to society themselves.

Bill Murray said it best. If you don't like the act you vote with your feet.
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1/10
Woke garbage
chriscojo3024 August 2022
Man up snowflakes. Everything offends you. A good comedian makes fun of everything and everyone. The Chris Farley episode was decent, but this one was a bunch of sissy's triggered by anything and everything.
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