Andrew Dice Clay Tells the Story Behind The Day the Laughter Died

The Joe Rogan Experience between sets I went over to greenblatts to get a cup of coffee in them with this screenplay writer uh his name was Mark I forgot his

last name actually I'm sorry sorry Mark anyway we're getting coffee and here comes this guy you know Rick Rubin with the beard the whole look and he's with

this little like heavy set guy all right oh man here comes some [ __ ] you know and um he goes yeah can I can I you know we soft spoke and can I speak with you a

minute and I I do have a Brooklyn attitude I'll admit it you know and I go yeah well yeah what can I do for your power you got to do another show you know and then

the guy Mark that's with me goes aren't you Rick Rubin and I'm looking at him I'm going who's Rick he goes he basically created rap and Rick goes yeah I uh I want to do an

album with you and I don't want to bother you I'm going to go next door and watch the second show you know because I had to do another show and that's how me and Rick met and we wound up doing Five

albums together hmm you know and we were a great team together I mean you know he's Rick Rubin and I mean sometimes we

would disagree but you can't get Rick mad he's an interesting cat well very different human being right oh it's it's you know

I say to Rick one time you know when when dice rules that where I do grease lightning that was dice rules the album okay besides the movie

and um I go did they yeah I was at West Westwood One radio or something like that and on the way back you know I say to Rick I go did they put up all the

posters like you said they were gonna do you know and he goes I suppose and I'm looking at him

I go you're the boss don't you know I told him to put it up yeah like you can't get even if he

didn't like something on an album and you know I could get heated you know I'm that kind of personality I'm like I don't give a [ __ ] it's not your [ __ ] album

well then I suppose you'll do what you like don't you ever get mad didn't you ever have a fight and he goes actually I never had a fight

um I go you never got a punch in the face like he goes no I go well you're about to if you don't just get mad at me at least like yell at me but great guy and

we had great experience so when it came to the day the laughter died so me and Rick put out hit albums and this is right like I think after dice

rules these are high-powered comedy albums to sell millions of copies so this you'll like mitzi's involved in that this is great

so um me and Rickett talking and I go you know you know how much I love going on late at night and just you know no reaction

because that time my career got made I was always like one of the last few whacks at night at The Comedy Store you know of course are the kind of stuff I did so there's you know people sitting

quiet you got a drunk in the front with his head on the table and you got four people that are just too tired to leave you've had those sounds oh yeah you know and I go I want to do like the ultimate

late night set you know and he sort of had the same thought process like we just go

unsuspecting crowd you know and this is like you would say at the height of doing the Arenas you know craziness surrounded me at that time it was like

the Lady Gaga of stand-up comedy you know and now I just want to go up in front of a few people with no notes with no idea of what the

album's gonna be and we we do three nights at danger fields and it winds up the double CD the day the last that died okay

and I'm just loving it you know the silence the smoke you could hear me smoke you know people walking out you know we

and we didn't cut any of it you know like I said keep it in there you know it's great you know I really got angry

you know at this family that came in see this will lead to it could set me up for Saturday Night Live to tell you stuff but so that this family comes in these

real [ __ ] out of town is from I don't know Midwest Bible Belt you know whatever they were but they were all wearing the same coat in the same hat with the with

the ball on top two daughters mother father now sitting in the front and the more I got into them the more

the father left and I got angry at that because I'm going this guy I would imagine in my mind that this guy really looks to [ __ ] around with his daughters they were

old enough you know they were like I don't remember the ages but I don't know young 20s late teens and I'm going why is this [ __ ] laughing when I'm doing this instead of

going they cut it out because I know if I was sitting there with my two daughters in some Comics some [ __ ] on stage is going so you

like to have her on your lap or whatever I said on the album you know I look at the guy I go walk away from me my family well there's a problem you know that's

how I would get this guy's laughing and I'm angry about it you know so the more he would laugh the more I would go after this [ __ ] but there's also no

laughs that's the part I did enjoy the actual Silence of the room or somebody walking out and yelling what's that there's a famous One lying on that you're about as

funny as a glass of milk you know the album better than me which is ridiculous why would you not that's it I love that album