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Andrew Dice Clay ( SNL )
1990-05-12
New York, NY
Menu: Yes
Chapters:No
Length: 2:00:28
Source/Lineage: Unknown Recording Equipment > VHS(M) > DVD
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Notes: I remeber watching this live back in the day - I use to watch SNL all of the time till it just got to bad for me to watch. This is a complete broadcast of the show.
Transferrd in 2003 - This is a complete show with commercials. Also this has the performance from the Spanic Boys which is not shown in syndication. I added some extra notes below.
Sinéad O'Connor was originally scheduled as the musical guest, but pulled out in protest against the controversial host, Andrew Dice Clay. O'Connor subsequently appeared at the beginning of Season 16.
SNL castmember Nora Dunn would also protest and did not appear in the episode due to Clay's profane jokes about women.
The musical segment featuring the Spanic Boys is not shown in syndication.
Rob Schneider makes his first appearance in a minor role.
The Spanic Boys performed "Keep On Walking."
Cruise performed "Falling."
Info below taken from http://www.chronologicalsnobbery.com/2010/05/andrew-dice-clay-on-saturday-night-live.html
Controversial comedian Andrew Dice Clay hosted "Saturday Night Live," something which provoked much controversy at that time. I can't say that I was ever a fan of Clay; I've never heard any of his comedy albums, and from what I understand of the material, I wouldn't particularly enjoy it.
I did like his 1990 flick, The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, mainly because of its connection to and depiction of the music industry. I'm not certain that I even watched this particular episode of "SNL," but I certainly remember the uproar prompted by it, including cast member Nora Dunn and originally scheduled musical guest Sinead O'Connor's boycotting of the show due to Clay's participation therein.
(Interestingly, O'Connor would court controversy on the show two years later when she held up a picture of the Pope to the camera and tore it in half to protest sexual abuse in the church.)
There were not one, but two musical guests that night, Julee Cruise and the Spanic Boys. A detailed breakdown of the episode and its sketches can be found below.
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Caryn James of The New York Times wrote this review on Clay's appearance on 05-14-1990
It's impossible to tell from his ''Saturday Night Live'' appearance, which was apparently meant to be the next shrewd step in the mainstreaming of Andrew Dice Clay.
With two movies (a comedy and a concert film) coming out this summer, he can no longer afford to spit out expletives on live television, the act that got him banned from MTV and bought him just the kind of bad-boy publicity that has propelled his career.
But instead of testing whether he can be more than a one-note performer, the show turned into a media event that gnawed at the controversy in one toothless skit after another.
The most clever was the opening sketch, a parody of ''It's a Wonderful Life,'' with Mr. Clay threatening to throw himself off a bridge because of the fuss about his appearing as host.
His guardian devil reveals what ''Saturday Night Live'' would have been without him: Ms. Dunn would have shown up and been squashed when Ms. O'Connor's amplifier fell on her. A distraught Ms. O'Connor would never show her nearly shaved head to sing in public again.
''That's too bad; she was a cute bald chick,'' says Mr. Clay in the Jimmy Stewart role. This mild self-mocking does not begin to suggest the offensive tirade of sexism that is typical of Mr. Clay's stand-up routines, and anyone who turned on ''Saturday Night Live'' without having seen him at his most vile might have wondered what the fuss was about.
His usual comments about women are mostly unprintable, but a typical one involves whiling away time in line at the bank by molesting the woman in front of him. The chain-smoking, leather-jacketed ''Diceman'' is clearly a persona, but it is a role without any redeeming irony.
Mr. Clay and the writers must have thought they were capitalizing on the controversy, instead of being sunk by it, but they made the wrong choice. The one truly funny episode was ''Ridiculous Bull,'' a black-and-white-parody of ''Raging Bull'' with Mr. Clay doing a mean impersonation of Robert De Niro as the out-of-shape boxer Jake LaMotta saying,
''Hit me with the sledgehammer, Joey. I'm your older brother, Joey, hit me with the refrigerator,'' in Mr. De Niro's nervous, repetitious delivery. The Diceman disappeared and a comic actor took over, raising new questions. Does Andrew Dice Clay have a future in the mainstream after all? And if he does, should women ever forgive him for the way he got there?
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