Andrew Dice Clay | |
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![]() Clay in 2012 | |
Birth name | Andrew Clay Silverstein |
Born | Brooklyn, New York, U.S. | September 29, 1957
Medium | Stand-up comedy, television, film |
Years active | 1978–present |
Genres | Character comedy, observational comedy, improvisational comedy, political satire, blue comedy, shock humour, anti-humour |
Spouse | Kathleen Swanson
(m. 1984; div. 1986)Kathleen Monica
(m. 1992; div. 2002)Valerie Vasquez
(m. 2010; div. 2014) |
Children | 2 |
Andrew Dice Clay (born Andrew Clay Silverstein; September 29, 1957)[1] is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He rose to prominence in the late 1980s with a brash, deliberately offensive persona known as "The Diceman". In 1990, he became the first stand-up comedian to sell out Madison Square Garden for two consecutive nights.[2] That same year, he played the lead role in the comedy-mystery film The Adventures of Ford Fairlane.
Clay has appeared in several films and television shows, including critically acclaimed supporting roles in Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine (2013) and Bradley Cooper's directorial debut, A Star Is Born (2018), the latter of which earned him a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. He continues his acting career while also touring and performing stand-up. The television show Dice aired on Showtime for two seasons. He also launched a podcast, I'm Ova Hea' Now, in September 2018.