The controversy he engendered culminated in the departure of Saturday Night Live regular Nora Dunn when Dice hosted in 1990.Īndrew “Dice” Clay in fact represents the crass excesses of the 1980s and the last gasp of truly politically incorrect comedy. Groups for women’s rights, gay rights, and conservative values crowd regularly protested Dice’s shows. His comedy was brutally politically incorrect and absolutely filthy. And, should there be a need to point this out, he was no crowd-pleasing everyman comic like the great Brian Regan. For a brief run during the late 1980s, Andrew “Dice” Clay was so popular that he was able to not only play Madison Square Garden, but also completely sell it out two nights in a row. However, only one comedian has performed here and completely sold out the stadium two nights in a row. Hundreds, if not thousands of musicians from almost every genre of music have played at this stadium, but only a handful of standup comics have had the ability to headline this vast monolith, most recently Kevin Hart and Eddie Izzard. The fabled stadium is host to both the New York Knicks and the New York Rangers. Madison Square Garden has a capacity to fit over 19,000 human beings in one area.
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