October 14, 2023 • 23 mins
Doug is joined by comedian and actor Andrew Dice Clay to discuss his cult classic album The Day the Laughter Died, how he’s adapted his comedy to social media, and his latest role as a basketball coach in the movie Warrior Strong.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Hey, welcome in. I'm Godi.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
This is all Ball.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
I have a special guest a little bit different all Ball,
Andrew dice Clay, of course, famous comedian.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
If you grew up in my era, you remember nursery rhymes.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
And I got a chance to talk to him about
an upcoming basketball movie as well as I'd be really interested.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
What do kids listen to.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Other than obviously rap, hip hop most everybody in hoop,
that's what you listen to when you're not playing on
these long road trips now, you know, And as much
as the road trips are different, you know in college
basketball farmers than there used to be, there's.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Still busting or van or rental car element of it.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
You know, kids fly more obviously with the AAU events
than we used to, but there's still long trips. There's
still long fly there's still long journeys and it's interesting.
But I used to listen to to Sleep a lot
of R and B. I was the babyface guy, and
I would listen to comedy albums, just a couple in particular,
(01:16):
and was the day the Laughter died, and it was
It's iconic because it's the most organic form of show,
you know, he I don't know if he.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I don't think he wrote out most of his material.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
It was just he had some material he was kind
of working through it, and it felt like he was
on stage for two hours interacting with fans, and because
he was just interacting and it wasn't part of his act.
If you will, anybody could be funny with jokes, granted,
part of it is the delivery of jokes. So hey, listen,
this is my conversation with the Great Andrew Dice Clat
(01:57):
you recorded an album. I want to talk about Warrior
Strong second, but you recorded a live album in New York.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
This is probably, I want to say, five years after
you blew up with Nursery Rhymes, and it was just
a lie.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
I wish I could write it down that when you
say it, I would show it to you because I
know what you're going to say.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Go ahead, okay, I went to sleep to.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
The cassette was a two sided cassette for probably years straight,
and what always fascinated me was obviously the nursery Rhymes
was was a bit part of your act, but it was,
But that cassette, it's it's almost like a narrative of
my teenage years in which you know, like you kind
(02:44):
of embodied this part of My dad was New Yorker,
my mom's from Connecticut, and I just kind of like
felt your soul within it.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
And you're talking about the day to laughter Diet and
I know the album you're talking about the Yeah, but
that is like the favorite album that I've ever done.
And we know that was like hardly any people in
the audience, you know it was. It was a real
concept album because you know, I love the number one.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I got to say, I love that.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
You went to sleep to it every night Like that
was like white noise to you, you know, because you
know that album. Oh what I went through to even
do that album, because you know, at that time, you know,
I was doing eighty thousand people a week in concert, which,
by the way, it looks like I'm building up.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
To that again. It's just crazy what's going on right now.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Anyway, at that time, I was doing you know, Dice Rules,
the album you're looking you.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Know arena albums.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Okay, So I was working with Rick Rubin, who you
know who that is, and we had the idea, let's
do the ultimate late night set. Nothing planned out, no material,
See what like going on at what you I'm wearing
in the comedy store, you know, you know, at one
(04:09):
in the morning and seeing what you come up with.
But no comic ever would to this day would have
the guts to go on a stage, record it and
put it out. So the problems I had after we
recorded it Number one, Rick produced my albums and David
Geffen put the albums out right. So I get called
(04:33):
into David Geffen's office and he goes, what is this
you know? And I just start laughing, you know. I go,
it's the day to laughter diet and he goes, yes,
it certainly is. There's no audience. People are walking out
on you. I go, that's the concept of the album, Like,
did you ever hear a comedy album where people walk
(04:55):
out on the comic?
Speaker 6 (04:57):
You know?
Speaker 4 (04:57):
It's just dice And forgive me, I think part of
it is. And again I don't. I have no relationship
with you. I haven't followed you personally, but you hear
so many of these other star comedians are super dark people,
and obviously darkness comes from you know, there's some insecurity there.
(05:17):
I kind of feel like that's not you, Like you're you,
and that's why you could put out that album because
you never had to change any sort of personality in
persona and get into character.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
And that's why you comics, comics in general, Doug are
very insecure, right, you know.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
That's what made Dice different, because the one thing I
really do have is absolute confidence in what I do
on the stage. And like today, for instance, if you
can't to see me today, which I'll get into in
a minute, I am self deprecating on stage, which I
never was back then, you know, but as time goes on,
(05:58):
you know, and you hear the people we'll talk about,
you know, a rectile disillusion man and diabetes and are
you getting enough fiber? You know, I'm like, I got
to bring this on stage when they're in a grocery
with the readers on, oh this is gluten free, when
thirty years ago you would eat a brick.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
You couldn't care less, you know.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
So I take that in as a comic and I
spit it out on stage. But with the day the
laughter died, nobody wanted this album to come out other
than me and Rick, even the owner of the comedy store.
It's he sure at the time, came up to my
house listen to ten minutes and said it's going to
ruin your career, and I basically told to let me
(06:44):
worry about that. Long story, short album comes out, double
CD of No Audience really becomes number one. I don't
know if I could say the biggest comedy album ever,
but far as comics, as far as like Joe Rogan's
of the world that has talked about it at least
(07:05):
fifty times it is their favorite album. Because that album
came out on a Monday.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
And it was gold by Thursday. That's half a million
just by that Thursday. It has sold millions and millions
of copies. Because I always knew where to go comedically
for myself. And that's why even today, you know, I
don't know if you watch my you know the dice
(07:36):
Instagram or the TikTok and how that is built through
the last year, which is basically I've become a menace
in New York City. People run from me because I
come over to anybody and I'm going, are you the
one that wanted the picture with the famous face the
brand of comedy? And they're going, I don't even know
(07:58):
who you are, and go nuts from that in their comments,
And now what's happened is you know what I've started
doing on Instagram TikTok, and you know, it's almost like
when I do this in the street, it's doing the
day the lanfter died live in the streets of New York,
(08:19):
going over to unsuspecting people who don't necessarily know me.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
And I'm going, you're the one that you He's like,
you're waiting for someone who we're just doing these photos
together me and they're going, who are you? You know,
it's the same concept of the day, and now it's
being pitched as a television show called The Famous Face,
and it's also transferred. I opened for Guns N' Roses
(08:47):
a few weeks ago in front of I don't know
about seventy five thousand people, you know, and I don't
know how that going to react. I haven't done something
like that, and he is, I've walked out. It was
better headlam they exploded, you know, which is also on
my Instagram and all that. So now you know the
(09:08):
you know, years ago, you do radio like we're doing now.
You know, there was no internet, you know that, and
all of a sudden it's transferring to ticket sales.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Like when I was back in La I'm in New York.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Now, as you could see, when I was back in
La I spoke to the owner of the comedy store,
Peter Shaw, and he goes, why don't you do a
show here next week, like next Friday, and we go
on sale. That show was gone in less than five minutes,
and they turned away thousands of people the following week
the night of the show. So now I'm on sale
(09:44):
at the Wiltern Theater, which I do have to promote,
which is November fifteenth, okay, And the Wilton Theater is
special to me because it was the first big concert
I did in La So and that's just a on
the corner because there was such a frenzy for tickets
(10:04):
on the comedy store and I called my agent, I go,
we got.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
To go bigger. You know, we're going bigger.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
And then you know, I get the text from Guns
and Roses late on a Monday night because everything's nostalgic.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Now, you know, would you open the show? You know?
Speaker 5 (10:22):
And even my girlfriend's like, you know, you don't have
to do it's so big. It was the MetLife Stadium,
which is the old Giant Stadium, which I always wanted
to do. Giants Stadium, you know, and so I show
up and when I start seeing the crowd as I'm
walking to go on, I'm going, oh my god, what
(10:44):
did I.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Just walk into?
Speaker 5 (10:46):
You know. And so that's what's happening in the live
performance world. And yes, you know, I'm happy about you know,
the movie warri Is Strong, which is, you know, an
underdog story a basketball team. I played coach Schmidt, which
is an interesting departure from the stage persona, you know,
(11:08):
just like I did with A Star Was Born and
you know, Vinyl and all the acting stuff I've done
in the you know past, I don't know, twelve years,
but you know, it was fun to play a basketball
coach with you know, this actor Jordan Johnson Hines, which
is phenomenal in the movie, you know, And that was
(11:30):
a fun thing to do and work with all these
new kids, a lot of them. It was, you know,
this basketball team. It was their first part that they got,
you know, and how to be trained to be basketball players.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
But it's an underdog story and.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
I like it because in my life I was always
that underdog, you know, in my entire career. Like even
the album we're talking about the Day to Laughter Die
Please Nobody wanted to see that come out other than
me and Rick Ruben, and we were so happy. We
couldn't believe how fast it just sold millions of copies.
(12:09):
You could talk to Bill Burr about it, Joe Rogan,
any big time comic will go, oh, yeah, the day
the Laughter died, Like why would he do that? You know,
that's one part that they always bring up. Tarantino was
on Joe Rogan for twenty minutes talking about the day
of the Laughter died. And I loved Quentin Tarantino, so
(12:31):
he should actually call me to be in that tenth movie.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Anyway, He's on Joe.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
Rogan and that's what was on his mind talking about comedy,
you know, you know, talking about how Dice the first
guy to ever sell out the Guard in multiple nights
and be the first arena comic that did what nobody
ever did.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
And I remember, like, even when I got banned.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
From MTV, you know, you know, everybody thought, uh, that's
the end of Really it went from doing one show,
let's say, in Boston with Bill Burr first saw me,
and he was you know, he talked about it on
his podcast because he had me do a thing with
him in Jersey and Newark, you know, at an arena
(13:16):
and he was on his podcast going the first time
I saw die, I was two rows from in the
nosebleeds from the back wall, you know. And I did
three nights at the Boston Central, you know, which would.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Be I don't know, I don't know, how about.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Just that weekend with sixty thousand people just for that place. So,
you know, it's become a very exciting time again in
the world of comedy, because there's in my opinion, there's
nothing hotter than comedy.
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Speaker 4 (14:03):
It's interesting though, because that that society wise, you know,
probably over the last five ten years, right, we've been
told that, you know, more and more things are offensive,
and yet because of it, it feels like people I
don't wnst say, say they want to be offended, but
(14:24):
they want the real they want the real shit a
little bit more.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Right, my fans come to see me, you know, I
do the performance I want to do. I'm not thinking
I don't care what goes on in the world. I
don't care what goes on in politics. When people pay
a ticket to see a certain performer, that performer should
give them what they're coming to see. And I always
(14:48):
have and I always will. That's just how I am.
So there's actually one of them majeens you know, you
know the ma jeans they put on like the Internet,
that and things and it goes.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
And it's a picture of me that somebody put up
and they go.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
If you think you've been offended, I want to introduce
you to somebody.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Real quick, because your day is your days busy okay,
warrior strong, Okay. So the story is you got this kid,
gay star basketball player kicked out of the Chinese league
because he's a coach killer. He's a coach killer. So
does do you get him straightened out?
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Like?
Speaker 6 (15:31):
What is?
Speaker 1 (15:32):
You know?
Speaker 5 (15:33):
I want to tell the I don't want to tell
the whole story of the whole movie, but it's a
very you know, it's an inspiring story, it really is.
And the movie came out really good, and you know,
we filmed it in a in sus Saint Marie, Canada.
Rosa Blossi is also in it with me, and it
(15:55):
was a very enjoyable, you know, thing to film, you know,
But you just got me all worked up talking about
the stand up. And I don't know if I'm going
to do another special now. You know, people keep coming
to me going because of what you were saying before
about comedy. You know, I keep getting those calls going, Dice,
you need to do another special. But when I go
(16:17):
on sale somewhere, it's just selling out, you know.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
So I don't know.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Maybe I will say what, leave me to take it
the fifteenth at the Wiltern, I'll be there.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Are you in La? Are you in La?
Speaker 5 (16:30):
You're more than welcome to come. And I know you
know who my publicist is, So I want you to come.
I want you to witness how the audiences have been.
And it's not old stuff, you know, that's edgy stuff
in there, but it's all new, you know. Even when
it comes to the sexual stuff, things have changed in
(16:52):
that way, you know. And I've done my research, you
know what I mean. So, but like I say, also
the deprecating stuff, and of course you know, I've been
told this isn't my ego, that homes are the it's
a signature piece, like a lot of comics had that
(17:13):
one bit, how people have come to know them and
it made their career. So of course I'm going to
give the poems that they came to love all the years,
because my signature piece is something that I can't even
believe how the crowns the audience has just screened them
(17:35):
still and you're talking about adults.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
You know, you're not talking.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
About twenty I think, but I think you realize just
how big it was, how big it still is, and
how it brings us back, and how unique it was.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
And so you should take great, great pride with.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
If I didn't do the polls right, just to compare
it to something that's like, you know, when Billie Joel performs.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
I've gone to see him.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
You know, he does like a show every month at
the Garden, and uh like, if he didn't sing like
you know, I love you just the way you was
over there, you know, and the I.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Get if Guns and Roses didn't play Paradise City the
place they did.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
I let me tell you something. After I performed, I
sat on the side of the stage. It was just me,
my girlfriend, Duff's wife, and their cousin, and I watched
that band.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Right number one, they're They're incredible.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
I mean they're the best, Like because you never know
when you go to see a band, you know, are
they just going to phone it in? Are they They're
just a number one Axel For nearly three and a
half hours, ran that stage, and.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
I'm going, it's unreal. Because I did the Rose Bowl
with them.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
I'm like the only comic that I've opened up and
it was either ninety two or ninety three, you know,
so like I said, things in nostalgic, So I did
it again with them, and I sat there. I didn't
even take time to go to the bathroom. I watched
him for three and a half hours. Stuff always amazing,
playing the bass slash. If I thought he was good,
(19:15):
you know, thirty years ago, each solo got better and
more intense, and you know, they have big screens that
you could watch. He's dripping through his shirt just playing
the most intense guitar solos.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
He's the greatest in the world.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
I mean, that's it, you know, And I love I
love the passion of that band, still wanting to give
everything they got, you know, And that's what I do when.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
I'm on stage. You know, I just love to perform.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
I love it more now than ever, because if you
like me thirty five years ago, well they now have
thirty five years more experience as a cor You know,
years ago Dice was really like a cartoon on stage.
You know, every move you know was a cartoon. Now
(20:12):
it's about the comedy, you know. Now it's about you know,
telling people what I think, but in a more relaxed way,
even though the energy takes over the room. That could
be you know, it doesn't have to be like this.
It could be more like I'm talking to you now,
(20:32):
like when I'm talking about pickle ball, you know, when
I'm talking about.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Were playing pickleball in La and we're playing pickleball in La.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
No, I'm never playing pickle ball. I'm never playing canasta.
I'm never getting a retirement planner.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 5 (20:52):
What older people are doing to themselves and breaking that right?
I don't want to start doing my act, but I
can't believe the things I hear that people are doing.
Going just take it easy, you know, I mean, it's
just funny when you when you're told you know, you
could get medicare now like it's like an under the
(21:15):
table secret.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
You know, leave me alone. Let me just live my life,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
But yeah, I want you to come to the show
in la at the Wiltern, And well I should say
that that's November fifteen. And also I'll be at the
State Theater in Eastern Pennsylvania next weekend, so there's still
some seats for that, you know.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
But other than that, we'll make sure it's filled. Although
you don't really need my help, you're the greatest.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I don't want everybody needs everybody's help. That's the way
it is.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
People want to look at the Instagram at a TikTok,
it's it's Andrew dice Clay. There's only one original. It's
got the you got to say that the day you
know that, you know it's me blue check mark thing
and the TikTok It's just hilarious because a lot of
(22:09):
the videos now were edited together, Like my girlfriend became
like an editing genius. And when I hit the street,
let's say I hit a bunch of people, you know,
like go over to a bunch.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
She'll cut it together like a little movie. It's hilarious.
You know the one she put up just last night.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
You know, I don't want to say what it is
is just hilarious, you know, so I really enjoy doing it.
I really enjoy hitting the street and going over to
people and like I say, it's the day to laugh
that died all over again, only live. So I wind
up getting that show on the air.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Too, I have no doubt about it. GUYE, thanks for
joining me. I really appreciate your time.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Thank you, Doug.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
All right, that's it for this version of All of All.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Remember the Doug Gotlig Show is daily three to five
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(23:18):
At University of Washington, now at Pepperdine.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
He'll be joining us in the next album. I'm Doug Gottlieb.
This is All Ball.
Hey, welcome in. I'm Godi.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
This is all Ball.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
I have a special guest a little bit different all Ball,
Andrew dice Clay, of course, famous comedian.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
If you grew up in my era, you remember nursery rhymes.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
And I got a chance to talk to him about
an upcoming basketball movie as well as I'd be really interested.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
What do kids listen to.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Other than obviously rap, hip hop most everybody in hoop,
that's what you listen to when you're not playing on
these long road trips now, you know, And as much
as the road trips are different, you know in college
basketball farmers than there used to be, there's.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Still busting or van or rental car element of it.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
You know, kids fly more obviously with the AAU events
than we used to, but there's still long trips. There's
still long fly there's still long journeys and it's interesting.
But I used to listen to to Sleep a lot
of R and B. I was the babyface guy, and
I would listen to comedy albums, just a couple in particular,
(01:16):
and was the day the Laughter died, and it was
It's iconic because it's the most organic form of show,
you know, he I don't know if he.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I don't think he wrote out most of his material.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
It was just he had some material he was kind
of working through it, and it felt like he was
on stage for two hours interacting with fans, and because
he was just interacting and it wasn't part of his act.
If you will, anybody could be funny with jokes, granted,
part of it is the delivery of jokes. So hey, listen,
this is my conversation with the Great Andrew Dice Clat
(01:57):
you recorded an album. I want to talk about Warrior
Strong second, but you recorded a live album in New York.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
This is probably, I want to say, five years after
you blew up with Nursery Rhymes, and it was just
a lie.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
I wish I could write it down that when you
say it, I would show it to you because I
know what you're going to say.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Go ahead, okay, I went to sleep to.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
The cassette was a two sided cassette for probably years straight,
and what always fascinated me was obviously the nursery Rhymes
was was a bit part of your act, but it was,
But that cassette, it's it's almost like a narrative of
my teenage years in which you know, like you kind
(02:44):
of embodied this part of My dad was New Yorker,
my mom's from Connecticut, and I just kind of like
felt your soul within it.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
And you're talking about the day to laughter Diet and
I know the album you're talking about the Yeah, but
that is like the favorite album that I've ever done.
And we know that was like hardly any people in
the audience, you know it was. It was a real
concept album because you know, I love the number one.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I got to say, I love that.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
You went to sleep to it every night Like that
was like white noise to you, you know, because you
know that album. Oh what I went through to even
do that album, because you know, at that time, you know,
I was doing eighty thousand people a week in concert, which,
by the way, it looks like I'm building up.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
To that again. It's just crazy what's going on right now.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Anyway, at that time, I was doing you know, Dice Rules,
the album you're looking you.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Know arena albums.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Okay, So I was working with Rick Rubin, who you
know who that is, and we had the idea, let's
do the ultimate late night set. Nothing planned out, no material,
See what like going on at what you I'm wearing
in the comedy store, you know, you know, at one
(04:09):
in the morning and seeing what you come up with.
But no comic ever would to this day would have
the guts to go on a stage, record it and
put it out. So the problems I had after we
recorded it Number one, Rick produced my albums and David
Geffen put the albums out right. So I get called
(04:33):
into David Geffen's office and he goes, what is this
you know? And I just start laughing, you know. I go,
it's the day to laughter diet and he goes, yes,
it certainly is. There's no audience. People are walking out
on you. I go, that's the concept of the album, Like,
did you ever hear a comedy album where people walk
(04:55):
out on the comic?
Speaker 6 (04:57):
You know?
Speaker 4 (04:57):
It's just dice And forgive me, I think part of
it is. And again I don't. I have no relationship
with you. I haven't followed you personally, but you hear
so many of these other star comedians are super dark people,
and obviously darkness comes from you know, there's some insecurity there.
(05:17):
I kind of feel like that's not you, Like you're you,
and that's why you could put out that album because
you never had to change any sort of personality in
persona and get into character.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
And that's why you comics, comics in general, Doug are
very insecure, right, you know.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
That's what made Dice different, because the one thing I
really do have is absolute confidence in what I do
on the stage. And like today, for instance, if you
can't to see me today, which I'll get into in
a minute, I am self deprecating on stage, which I
never was back then, you know, but as time goes on,
(05:58):
you know, and you hear the people we'll talk about,
you know, a rectile disillusion man and diabetes and are
you getting enough fiber? You know, I'm like, I got
to bring this on stage when they're in a grocery
with the readers on, oh this is gluten free, when
thirty years ago you would eat a brick.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
You couldn't care less, you know.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
So I take that in as a comic and I
spit it out on stage. But with the day the
laughter died, nobody wanted this album to come out other
than me and Rick, even the owner of the comedy store.
It's he sure at the time, came up to my
house listen to ten minutes and said it's going to
ruin your career, and I basically told to let me
(06:44):
worry about that. Long story, short album comes out, double
CD of No Audience really becomes number one. I don't
know if I could say the biggest comedy album ever,
but far as comics, as far as like Joe Rogan's
of the world that has talked about it at least
(07:05):
fifty times it is their favorite album. Because that album
came out on a Monday.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
And it was gold by Thursday. That's half a million
just by that Thursday. It has sold millions and millions
of copies. Because I always knew where to go comedically
for myself. And that's why even today, you know, I
don't know if you watch my you know the dice
(07:36):
Instagram or the TikTok and how that is built through
the last year, which is basically I've become a menace
in New York City. People run from me because I
come over to anybody and I'm going, are you the
one that wanted the picture with the famous face the
brand of comedy? And they're going, I don't even know
(07:58):
who you are, and go nuts from that in their comments,
And now what's happened is you know what I've started
doing on Instagram TikTok, and you know, it's almost like
when I do this in the street, it's doing the
day the lanfter died live in the streets of New York,
(08:19):
going over to unsuspecting people who don't necessarily know me.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
And I'm going, you're the one that you He's like,
you're waiting for someone who we're just doing these photos
together me and they're going, who are you? You know,
it's the same concept of the day, and now it's
being pitched as a television show called The Famous Face,
and it's also transferred. I opened for Guns N' Roses
(08:47):
a few weeks ago in front of I don't know
about seventy five thousand people, you know, and I don't
know how that going to react. I haven't done something
like that, and he is, I've walked out. It was
better headlam they exploded, you know, which is also on
my Instagram and all that. So now you know the
(09:08):
you know, years ago, you do radio like we're doing now.
You know, there was no internet, you know that, and
all of a sudden it's transferring to ticket sales.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Like when I was back in La I'm in New York.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Now, as you could see, when I was back in
La I spoke to the owner of the comedy store,
Peter Shaw, and he goes, why don't you do a
show here next week, like next Friday, and we go
on sale. That show was gone in less than five minutes,
and they turned away thousands of people the following week
the night of the show. So now I'm on sale
(09:44):
at the Wiltern Theater, which I do have to promote,
which is November fifteenth, okay, And the Wilton Theater is
special to me because it was the first big concert
I did in La So and that's just a on
the corner because there was such a frenzy for tickets
(10:04):
on the comedy store and I called my agent, I go,
we got.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
To go bigger. You know, we're going bigger.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
And then you know, I get the text from Guns
and Roses late on a Monday night because everything's nostalgic.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Now, you know, would you open the show? You know?
Speaker 5 (10:22):
And even my girlfriend's like, you know, you don't have
to do it's so big. It was the MetLife Stadium,
which is the old Giant Stadium, which I always wanted
to do. Giants Stadium, you know, and so I show
up and when I start seeing the crowd as I'm
walking to go on, I'm going, oh my god, what
(10:44):
did I.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Just walk into?
Speaker 5 (10:46):
You know. And so that's what's happening in the live
performance world. And yes, you know, I'm happy about you know,
the movie warri Is Strong, which is, you know, an
underdog story a basketball team. I played coach Schmidt, which
is an interesting departure from the stage persona, you know,
(11:08):
just like I did with A Star Was Born and
you know, Vinyl and all the acting stuff I've done
in the you know past, I don't know, twelve years,
but you know, it was fun to play a basketball
coach with you know, this actor Jordan Johnson Hines, which
is phenomenal in the movie, you know, And that was
(11:30):
a fun thing to do and work with all these
new kids, a lot of them. It was, you know,
this basketball team. It was their first part that they got,
you know, and how to be trained to be basketball players.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
But it's an underdog story and.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
I like it because in my life I was always
that underdog, you know, in my entire career. Like even
the album we're talking about the Day to Laughter Die
Please Nobody wanted to see that come out other than
me and Rick Ruben, and we were so happy. We
couldn't believe how fast it just sold millions of copies.
(12:09):
You could talk to Bill Burr about it, Joe Rogan,
any big time comic will go, oh, yeah, the day
the Laughter died, Like why would he do that? You know,
that's one part that they always bring up. Tarantino was
on Joe Rogan for twenty minutes talking about the day
of the Laughter died. And I loved Quentin Tarantino, so
(12:31):
he should actually call me to be in that tenth movie.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Anyway, He's on Joe.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
Rogan and that's what was on his mind talking about comedy,
you know, you know, talking about how Dice the first
guy to ever sell out the Guard in multiple nights
and be the first arena comic that did what nobody
ever did.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
And I remember, like, even when I got banned.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
From MTV, you know, you know, everybody thought, uh, that's
the end of Really it went from doing one show,
let's say, in Boston with Bill Burr first saw me,
and he was you know, he talked about it on
his podcast because he had me do a thing with
him in Jersey and Newark, you know, at an arena
(13:16):
and he was on his podcast going the first time
I saw die, I was two rows from in the
nosebleeds from the back wall, you know. And I did
three nights at the Boston Central, you know, which would.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Be I don't know, I don't know, how about.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Just that weekend with sixty thousand people just for that place. So,
you know, it's become a very exciting time again in
the world of comedy, because there's in my opinion, there's
nothing hotter than comedy.
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Speaker 4 (14:03):
It's interesting though, because that that society wise, you know,
probably over the last five ten years, right, we've been
told that, you know, more and more things are offensive,
and yet because of it, it feels like people I
don't wnst say, say they want to be offended, but
(14:24):
they want the real they want the real shit a
little bit more.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Right, my fans come to see me, you know, I
do the performance I want to do. I'm not thinking
I don't care what goes on in the world. I
don't care what goes on in politics. When people pay
a ticket to see a certain performer, that performer should
give them what they're coming to see. And I always
(14:48):
have and I always will. That's just how I am.
So there's actually one of them majeens you know, you
know the ma jeans they put on like the Internet,
that and things and it goes.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
And it's a picture of me that somebody put up
and they go.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
If you think you've been offended, I want to introduce
you to somebody.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Real quick, because your day is your days busy okay,
warrior strong, Okay. So the story is you got this kid,
gay star basketball player kicked out of the Chinese league
because he's a coach killer. He's a coach killer. So
does do you get him straightened out?
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Like?
Speaker 6 (15:31):
What is?
Speaker 1 (15:32):
You know?
Speaker 5 (15:33):
I want to tell the I don't want to tell
the whole story of the whole movie, but it's a
very you know, it's an inspiring story, it really is.
And the movie came out really good, and you know,
we filmed it in a in sus Saint Marie, Canada.
Rosa Blossi is also in it with me, and it
(15:55):
was a very enjoyable, you know, thing to film, you know,
But you just got me all worked up talking about
the stand up. And I don't know if I'm going
to do another special now. You know, people keep coming
to me going because of what you were saying before
about comedy. You know, I keep getting those calls going, Dice,
you need to do another special. But when I go
(16:17):
on sale somewhere, it's just selling out, you know.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
So I don't know.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Maybe I will say what, leave me to take it
the fifteenth at the Wiltern, I'll be there.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Are you in La? Are you in La?
Speaker 5 (16:30):
You're more than welcome to come. And I know you
know who my publicist is, So I want you to come.
I want you to witness how the audiences have been.
And it's not old stuff, you know, that's edgy stuff
in there, but it's all new, you know. Even when
it comes to the sexual stuff, things have changed in
(16:52):
that way, you know. And I've done my research, you
know what I mean. So, but like I say, also
the deprecating stuff, and of course you know, I've been
told this isn't my ego, that homes are the it's
a signature piece, like a lot of comics had that
(17:13):
one bit, how people have come to know them and
it made their career. So of course I'm going to
give the poems that they came to love all the years,
because my signature piece is something that I can't even
believe how the crowns the audience has just screened them
(17:35):
still and you're talking about adults.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
You know, you're not talking.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
About twenty I think, but I think you realize just
how big it was, how big it still is, and
how it brings us back, and how unique it was.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
And so you should take great, great pride with.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
If I didn't do the polls right, just to compare
it to something that's like, you know, when Billie Joel performs.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
I've gone to see him.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
You know, he does like a show every month at
the Garden, and uh like, if he didn't sing like
you know, I love you just the way you was
over there, you know, and the I.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Get if Guns and Roses didn't play Paradise City the
place they did.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
I let me tell you something. After I performed, I
sat on the side of the stage. It was just me,
my girlfriend, Duff's wife, and their cousin, and I watched
that band.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Right number one, they're They're incredible.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
I mean they're the best, Like because you never know
when you go to see a band, you know, are
they just going to phone it in? Are they They're
just a number one Axel For nearly three and a
half hours, ran that stage, and.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
I'm going, it's unreal. Because I did the Rose Bowl
with them.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
I'm like the only comic that I've opened up and
it was either ninety two or ninety three, you know,
so like I said, things in nostalgic, So I did
it again with them, and I sat there. I didn't
even take time to go to the bathroom. I watched
him for three and a half hours. Stuff always amazing,
playing the bass slash. If I thought he was good,
(19:15):
you know, thirty years ago, each solo got better and
more intense, and you know, they have big screens that
you could watch. He's dripping through his shirt just playing
the most intense guitar solos.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
He's the greatest in the world.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
I mean, that's it, you know, And I love I
love the passion of that band, still wanting to give
everything they got, you know, And that's what I do when.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
I'm on stage. You know, I just love to perform.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
I love it more now than ever, because if you
like me thirty five years ago, well they now have
thirty five years more experience as a cor You know,
years ago Dice was really like a cartoon on stage.
You know, every move you know was a cartoon. Now
(20:12):
it's about the comedy, you know. Now it's about you know,
telling people what I think, but in a more relaxed way,
even though the energy takes over the room. That could
be you know, it doesn't have to be like this.
It could be more like I'm talking to you now,
(20:32):
like when I'm talking about pickle ball, you know, when
I'm talking about.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Were playing pickleball in La and we're playing pickleball in La.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
No, I'm never playing pickle ball. I'm never playing canasta.
I'm never getting a retirement planner.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 5 (20:52):
What older people are doing to themselves and breaking that right?
I don't want to start doing my act, but I
can't believe the things I hear that people are doing.
Going just take it easy, you know, I mean, it's
just funny when you when you're told you know, you
could get medicare now like it's like an under the
(21:15):
table secret.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
You know, leave me alone. Let me just live my life,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
But yeah, I want you to come to the show
in la at the Wiltern, And well I should say
that that's November fifteen. And also I'll be at the
State Theater in Eastern Pennsylvania next weekend, so there's still
some seats for that, you know.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
But other than that, we'll make sure it's filled. Although
you don't really need my help, you're the greatest.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I don't want everybody needs everybody's help. That's the way
it is.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
People want to look at the Instagram at a TikTok,
it's it's Andrew dice Clay. There's only one original. It's
got the you got to say that the day you
know that, you know it's me blue check mark thing
and the TikTok It's just hilarious because a lot of
(22:09):
the videos now were edited together, Like my girlfriend became
like an editing genius. And when I hit the street,
let's say I hit a bunch of people, you know,
like go over to a bunch.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
She'll cut it together like a little movie. It's hilarious.
You know the one she put up just last night.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
You know, I don't want to say what it is
is just hilarious, you know, so I really enjoy doing it.
I really enjoy hitting the street and going over to
people and like I say, it's the day to laugh
that died all over again, only live. So I wind
up getting that show on the air.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Too, I have no doubt about it. GUYE, thanks for
joining me. I really appreciate your time.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Thank you, Doug.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
All right, that's it for this version of All of All.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Remember the Doug Gotlig Show is daily three to five
Eastern twelve to Pacific on your iHeartRadio app or on
Foxsports Radio, Foxsports Radio dot Com. Our next All Ball
will drop very soon as Lorenzo Romo, who was a
great player in his own right, of course, longtime legendary
head coach verst in Saint Louis, then at U dub
(23:18):
At University of Washington, now at Pepperdine.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
He'll be joining us in the next album. I'm Doug Gottlieb.
This is All Ball.
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