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Posted: 3/5/06 at 7:02pm
Many will say Carrot Top but I must confess that I have not seen any of his stuff. Life is much too short.
That being said, I'd have to say Andrew "Dice" Clay. Generally, as a rule, it usually does not work when you are setting out specifically to offend and shock people and Clay does not do anything to change that. He could have easily used his stand-up persona as a way of critiquing male machismo and egotism but didn't really have the balls (so to speak) to do such a thing. This is why so much of his comedy is just so uncomfortable to watch. He has "shocking subjects" and doesn't do anything to make them funny. He's just pointing various aspects of the male machismo psyche and expects that alone to be funny.
Mysogyny is definitely a problem in society and is fair game for a good satirical drubbing, but "Dice" Clay didn't do any of that. He was just yelling out shocking things in an offensive manner and hoped that that alone would be funny. It wasn't.
That being said, I'd have to say Andrew "Dice" Clay. Generally, as a rule, it usually does not work when you are setting out specifically to offend and shock people and Clay does not do anything to change that. He could have easily used his stand-up persona as a way of critiquing male machismo and egotism but didn't really have the balls (so to speak) to do such a thing. This is why so much of his comedy is just so uncomfortable to watch. He has "shocking subjects" and doesn't do anything to make them funny. He's just pointing various aspects of the male machismo psyche and expects that alone to be funny.
Mysogyny is definitely a problem in society and is fair game for a good satirical drubbing, but "Dice" Clay didn't do any of that. He was just yelling out shocking things in an offensive manner and hoped that that alone would be funny. It wasn't.
