one of the most brilliant comedy albums of all time. andrew dice clay does a random show at a comedy club to an audience of like 20 people. some of the audience already hates clay for his famously offensive humor. so throughout the album, half of the crowd is pissed off, and the other half is laughin their asses off. a lot of people storm out of the club during the show, and dice notices every time and fucks with ‘em even more.
2 hours of a guy just pissin off an audience to entertain himself
dice = comedy champion
Younger generations may only know him as the consummate line-pusher but when Richard Pryor decided to dump his clean routine that read like an homage to Bill Cosby, it was huge. Pryor started playing to the world that he knew and the experiences he lived. He went back to the underground black clubs he’d played early on and created routines that became fodder for his third album, the X-rated That N——-’s Crazy. Controversy surrounded the release, as Pryor’s previous label sued over rights to it, and the new label briefly closed its doors. That same year Pryor would be arrested for income tax evasion, spend 10 days in jail, and get hit with a fine. But the album, full of explicit language and sexual content, had massive crossover appeal. It went on to sell more than a half a million copies and garner a Grammy award for best comedy album of the year.
Not only is The Day the Laughter Died one of my favorite comedy albums of all time, it is also a holiday classic. The confrontational tone of this album is what made it so uneasy to listen when it first came out. If you came here looking for nursery rhyme jokes, then look elsewhere. Instead you what you have here is a comedian, at his prime, challenging himself & the audience & seeing just how much he could push their buttons. Some walked out, some sat there & took it, but never was there a dull moment. Dice was never the same after this.
