Andrew Dice Clay Gets Ready for His Carnegie Hall Comeback

Andrew Cube Clay didn’t look forward to finding his subsequent Massive Shot consuming his lunch on the sidewalk. 

And but there he was, sipping a Coke and softly radiating within the imperturbable tranquility of a transparent skied January day when Cube approached, filming the person and sheepishly asking in a nasally voice, “You heard I received the brand new telephone?”  

Cube’s Instagram gag is to stroll as much as strangers and demand they need to acknowledge “this well-known face of mine.” Most as a substitute softly protest — “I dont know you,” one girl just lately mentioned – whereas most easily scurry away. Sidewalk lunch man, on different hand, couldn’t be bothered to do both — and easily regarded up at Cube and earnestly replied, ‘Congratulations.’” 

“I couldn’t get residence quick sufficient to point out my girlfriend,” Cube tells Billboard. The sidewalk lunch man was now a Massive Shot, a title Cube bestows on the folks he options on his Instagram channel, which has 400,000 followers. “If there was an precise casting session for a TV present on Massive Shot, he would have gotten the half.”

Cube is within the midst of prepping for his personal showcase second, with a giant return comedy comeback present to be held at Manhattan’s Carnegie Corridor on Feb. 15. “35 years in the past they’d not have allowed me on the identical block,” says Cube of the famously elegant venue.

In any case, Cube made his title within the late ’80s and early ’90s with a foul-mouthed routine that exploded throughout tv like a hand grenade, surprising TV audiences and galvanizing hundreds of thousands of followers who purchased up his comedy information and paid to see his concert events. Cube, whose actual title was Andrew Silverstein, turned an in a single day star and area headliner, changing into the primary (and to this point solely) comic to promote out two nights at Madison Sq. Backyard. 

His agent Dennis Arfa, now at AGI, would subject calls “from each promoter within the nation, from Ron Delsener to Stu Inexperienced to Invoice Graham,” Cube tells Billboard. “And actually, they didn’t know if I used to be a singer, a magician or a juggler. They only knew I used to be the man who went on sale and in 48 minutes bought out.” 

Cube’s materials would make him and people he labored with hundreds of thousands, however the crass nature of his jokes about intercourse and girls — in addition to his concentrating on of gays and immigrants — turned a rising drawback for these round him. His refusal to melt his materials (he just lately instructed Joe Rogan, “Cube doesn’t get f–ked, Cube does the f–king”) would ultimately be his undoing, though his flame would burn out a lot slower than historical past portrays. 

Whereas Cube’s gigs had been being protested by homosexual rights teams like Queer Nation, it was highly effective homosexual males in Hollywood – report producer David Geffen, twentieth Century Fox’s Barry Diller and supervisor Sandy Gallin who developed Cube’s act and guarded him for years.  

In 1990 Diller would half methods with Cube, spiking a multi-movie settlement with him on the eve of the launch of his first movie the Adventures of Ford Fairlane — a transfer {that a} 2023 episode of Vice’s The Darkish Facet of Comedy in regards to the comic equated to a demise knell for his profession. However the reality is that Cube was removed from finished with tv, remaining energetic in TV and touring for an additional decade. He inked offers with ABC, CBS and HBO, and launched the 1995 sitcom Bless This Home on CBS with none actual opposition from throughout the leisure enterprise.  

Cube carried out his remaining present at Madison Sq. Backyard in 2000, inked a cope with SiriusXM in 2005 and stayed busy for the subsequent 20 years doing occasional TV work, radio look and standup gigs. His latest comeback started seven months in the past, when comic and longtime good friend Invoice Burr satisfied Cube to heat up the group at one in all Burr’s headliner gigs.

“After we walked in his dressing room for the present, Invoice stood up with a giant smile and went, ‘Cube, you’re gonna do a while, proper?’” Cube remembers. “The minute I received launched, the New Jersey crowd went completely nuts.” 

It’s not simply Burr both – podcaster Joe Rogan, comedians Sebastian Maniscalco and Jim Norton, radio megastar Howard Stern and dozens of different high-profile comedians have lengthy supported Cube and cited him as an inspiration. And whereas he has by no means apologized for his previous remarks towards gays, girls and immigrants, he has softened his character, and even barely dialed again his famously filthy routine for one in all his comebacks reveals on the Wiltern in LA final 12 months. 

“I’m much less ego and extra self-deprecating,” he explains, noting that he enjoys mentoring youthful expertise and is extra wanting to share the highlight with others — just like the deadpan man consuming his lunch on the sidewalk.  

“One phrase, that’s all he must get the half.” Cube notes. “One phrase to let the world know that this man is a genius.”