Andrew Dice Clay: The Day The Laughter Died Part II/2: CD

The Day The Laughter Died Part II may just be the most reviled comedy album of recent times. There's a reason for that. But then again, Dice is no ordinary comedian, and one can't judge him like that. Like Andy Kaufman before him, he began as a "Song and Dance Man" and then migrated into comedy/performance art and in the process culminating--at the top of his career--the original The Day the Laughter Died, a work of such stunning genius that now, 20 years later, it is only just beginning to be understood. But after several successful albums, Dice tired of the routines he'd set up. And this album is Dice raging against the Machine. The Machine is Stand-Up, and Dice is having none of it. He's his own man here and like before, he's got no material to fall back on, and he will succeed or fail on his own merits. And yes, the album does indeed fail as typical stand-up. In fact, I was befuddled when I first heard it. It was a somehow an angrier Dice, who stated that "...my career...I don't ha