Joe Rogan Experience #1989 - Andrew Dice Clay

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   (drum roll) Joe Rogan podcast,…

   1. NANarrator0:00

      (drum roll) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.

   2. The Joe Rogan Experience.

   3. ACAndrew Dice Clay0:06

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (rock music) Yeah. Number one, it's great to see you.

   4. JRJoe Rogan0:14

      Great to see you too.

   5. ACAndrew Dice Clay0:15

      Let me just do, uh, you know, what I gotta do. You know.

   6. JRJoe Rogan0:19

      Are these your, uh, podcast glasses?

   7. ACAndrew Dice Clay0:24

      I got 'em.

   8. JRJoe Rogan0:24

      You got special ones?

   9. ACAndrew Dice Clay0:24

      W- what's his name?

   10. JRJoe Rogan0:26

       Jamie. That's your name, Jamie.

   11. ACAndrew Dice Clay0:27

       Jamie. Y- you do understand I'm doing the Joe Rogan Experience, right?

   12. JRJoe Rogan0:31

       He's doing the Joe Rogan Experience.

   13. ACAndrew Dice Clay0:32

       So why wouldn't I-

   14. JRJoe Rogan0:33

       Yeah, you gotta swap glasses.

   15. ACAndrew Dice Clay0:34

       ... use the best?

   16. JRJoe Rogan0:34

       Ooh, I like those.

   17. ACAndrew Dice Clay0:35

       We go with the chrome.

   18. JRJoe Rogan0:37

       I like it.

   19. ACAndrew Dice Clay0:37

       You see what happens-

   20. JRJoe Rogan0:38

       I like it. I like the chrome.

   21. ACAndrew Dice Clay0:39

       We go with the chrome.

   22. JRJoe Rogan0:40

       I like it. I like how you have a case.

   23. ACAndrew Dice Clay0:42

       And-

   24. JRJoe Rogan0:42

       Those are serious shades.

   25. ACAndrew Dice Clay0:44

       This is the experience. This is your sh-... You've-

   26. JRJoe Rogan0:47

       Hmm.

   27. ACAndrew Dice Clay0:48

       ... now taken over everything.

   28. JRJoe Rogan0:51

       Hmm.

   29. ACAndrew Dice Clay0:51

       In my opinion. And I'm proud of you for that.

   30. JRJoe Rogan0:54

       Thank you.
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   Good. …

   1. ACAndrew Dice Clay15:00

      crazy. So I figured, go into my fat girl stuff.

   2. NANarrator15:04

      Good.

   3. ACAndrew Dice Clay15:04

      And that ended with, "You don't know where the tits begin and the belly ends, it's like one big glop of shit," right?

   4. NANarrator15:14

      (laughs)

   5. ACAndrew Dice Clay15:14

      And I go... Now I go, 'cause they gave me a signal, "Ladies and gentlemen, the last Puritan, Cher." And she comes out singing If I Could Turn Back Time, which is-

   6. NANarrator15:25

      (laughs)

   7. ACAndrew Dice Clay15:25

      ... what everybody was thinking in the room, If We Could Turn Back Time about eight minutes. But in the meantime, while I'm doing the act, Dick Clark goes to charge me and Arsenio jumps on his back and tackles him.

   8. NANarrator15:41

      Dick Ch- Dick Clark's trying to stop your set?

   9. ACAndrew Dice Clay15:43

      Dick Clark was gonna jump... He went out of his fucking mind.

   10. NANarrator15:46

       Oh my god.

   11. ACAndrew Dice Clay15:46

       His hair got messy, I'll put it to you that way.

   12. NANarrator15:49

       (laughs)

   13. ACAndrew Dice Clay15:50

       So now...

   14. NANarrator15:51

       (laughs)

   15. ACAndrew Dice Clay15:51

       Now I come off the stage, Eddie, right?

   16. NANarrator15:56

       Jamie.

   17. ACAndrew Dice Clay15:57

       Jamie.

   18. NANarrator15:57

       Jamie.

   19. ACAndrew Dice Clay15:57

       Listen, Jamie.

   20. NANarrator15:58

       Young Jamie.

   21. ACAndrew Dice Clay15:59

       Young Jamie. So now they're taking me into the press tents, not one question was asked. And, and it was all the press in the world. Sandy Gallin calls me at home, he goes, "I was praying that what I was watching on TV was only coming through my television."

   22. NANarrator16:21

       (laughs)

   23. ACAndrew Dice Clay16:23

       Then I get a call, you know, from a club owner. Remember Rascals in West Orange?

   24. NANarrator16:29

       Yes, sure.

   25. ACAndrew Dice Clay16:30

       The owner, Mark Magnason?

   26. NANarrator16:31

       Yeah.

   27. ACAndrew Dice Clay16:31

       Great, greatest guy. So Kennison was there, who... I always say he was having a rivalry with me. I was happy for him when his career took off, I was thrilled for him. He had no problem with me 'cause I was on the show Crime Story at the time. But... And he was doing, I don't know, four or 5,000 seats a night. He was the guy before I took off. When my career took off, it went straight to arenas. I was doing 80 to 100,000 people a week and he just couldn't handle it, for whatever reason. But he goes, "So Kennison's watching this going, 'That's it, he's done, he's finished.'" In the meantime, the reality was, I went from doing one arena show, let- let- let- let's say at The Spectrum in Philly, to two arena shows.

   28. NANarrator17:20

       (laughs)

   29. ACAndrew Dice Clay17:20

       Or three arena shows, where Bill Burr saw me at, um... In Boston, at whatever arena I did there. I had one show, it went to three shows. It just got bigger and bigger and bigger, nothing was hurting. And so the next day there's this big meeting at MTV, and Rick Rubin was there, you know, and, you know, my, my people that I worked with, uh, Sandy Gallin, all these... But it was the president, they're banning me for life, you know, which is hilarious. I'm not even a singer, you know?

   30. NANarrator17:55

       (laughs)
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   (laughs) …

   1. ACAndrew Dice Clay30:00

      college you think Dice went to."

   2. JRJoe Rogan30:02

      (laughs)

   3. ACAndrew Dice Clay30:03

      You're never gonna find those fans. One of them-

   4. JRJoe Rogan30:05

      Yeah.

   5. ACAndrew Dice Clay30:05

      ... might say something like, "Well, I heard he lived near a college." You know? (laughs)

   6. JRJoe Rogan30:09

      Yeah.

   7. ACAndrew Dice Clay30:09

      You know what I mean?

   8. JRJoe Rogan30:10

      Mm-hmm.

   9. ACAndrew Dice Clay30:11

      So, but, you know, with the pyramid thing, why nort? Just on that.

   10. JRJoe Rogan30:16

       What about the pyramid?

   11. ACAndrew Dice Clay30:17

       Why nort?

   12. JRJoe Rogan30:19

       Why nort? What's up with-

   13. ACAndrew Dice Clay30:20

       No, nort, like-

   14. JRJoe Rogan30:22

       North?

   15. ACAndrew Dice Clay30:22

       You know how you s- uh, they point north-

   16. JRJoe Rogan30:25

       North, south, east, and west. North, north.

   17. ACAndrew Dice Clay30:26

       No, but there's a reason, like, they're north or something?

   18. JRJoe Rogan30:29

       Well, the pyramid is, the way it's set on the Earth-... it, it is, it's, it points directly north, south, east, and west, apparently. Like the, like f-find out what the, the way the pyramid is aligned with the earth. There's also the height of the pyramid.

   19. ACAndrew Dice Clay30:48

       Yeah.

   20. JRJoe Rogan30:49

       There's like a lot of mathematics, but this is all like Randall Carlson stuff.

   21. ACAndrew Dice Clay30:52

       Like with the eucalyptus and the world.

   22. JRJoe Rogan30:53

       Yeah, the eucalyptus, yeah. (laughs)

   23. ACAndrew Dice Clay30:54

       You know, with the-

   24. JRJoe Rogan30:55

       The equator.

   25. ACAndrew Dice Clay30:55

       ... with the width and everything.

   26. JRJoe Rogan30:57

       Well, it's, it's also the three pyramids align with these certain stars in the sky and the Orion Belt. It's, there's a lot of complicated stuff with the pyramids.

   27. ACAndrew Dice Clay31:04

       Yeah, because you really delve into this stuff. Now, delve is not an easy word.

   28. JRJoe Rogan31:10

       Delve? (laughs)

   29. ACAndrew Dice Clay31:10

       I'll just tell you that, Vincent. You know, delve is not an easy word.

   30. JRJoe Rogan31:14

       It's hard to use and not sound pretentious.
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   It's hydromatic. Watch Grease…

   1. ACAndrew Dice Clay45:00

      N' Roses and Slash. They came to rehearse. We did it. People went berserk. They're in my dressing room with Sly Stallone, with Cher. I think we got pic- ... Is that a drum one?

   2. NANarrator45:14

      It's hydromatic. Watch Grease Lightning. Grease Lightning. Wow. If you want to take a water cooler, baby. It's a full bar of fun for you. If you're injecting color through chrome-plated rods from here. With full speed ahead-

   3. JRJoe Rogan45:31

      (laughs) You gotta see the dance.

   4. NANarrator45:33

      ... and nothing fall. You know that ain't no shit. You'll be getting like this when you do slide. Go on, slide me. You're burning up the quarter mile.

   5. JRJoe Rogan45:43

      Did you like doing this more than the standup?

   6. ACAndrew Dice Clay45:45

      100%.

   7. JRJoe Rogan45:46

      Really? You can kinda tell.

   8. ACAndrew Dice Clay45:48

      Because I get to entertain.

   9. NANarrator45:52

      If you want to take some pretty woman home. Do the slide. Go, go, go, go.

   10. JRJoe Rogan45:53

       Yeah, watch him. Look at you go. (laughs)

   11. NANarrator46:16

       Go on, slide me. You're burning up the quarter mile.

   12. JRJoe Rogan46:20

       So you were upset that they never brought this stuff up.

   13. ACAndrew Dice Clay46:22

       They would never write it up. You know, they just made like it was an hour of just foul language, and that was it. And my father used to get crazy from it because he's the one... He was behind me from day one, you know. And (laughs) he had ... At th- My father went from having a, a toy store to being a big builder. Like, in, in Staten Island, he was the first builder to go into Staten Island and build like the newer homes. And we lived there from the ... I was seven til I was 12. And we basically got chased outta ... Well, he got chased outta there. You know, he knew he had to leave because he wasn't a gangster. So ... And the gangsters were taking over Staten Island. They would just... They would build their houses across the freeway. They, there was no zoning laws. So we went to Florida for like six months and then back to Brooklyn, you know, from 13 to 21, and then I was out in LA doing the Travolta act. That's how it started, me doing Travolta, which I gave you pictures, even me holding up how closely we look the same. You know, it was a whole Travolta act. And even the way that started, you know, was, um ... You know, I saw Travo- I was always able to do ... (laughs) This is what-

   14. JRJoe Rogan47:40

       That's pretty close.

   15. ACAndrew Dice Clay47:41

       Wait, show the other one where I'm greased up. Is there another one?

   16. NANarrator47:46

       Probably, maybe. I don't know. There.

   17. ACAndrew Dice Clay47:50

       Oh, je- Yeah. There. Um, that's my ...

   18. JRJoe Rogan47:52

       (laughs)

   19. ACAndrew Dice Clay47:52

       I'm doing my first interview. So I'm working for my father on Court Street now. He has a process serving agency. And that's how I would walk around 'cause once I got into it, I became it. So I'm picking up summonses from attorneys walking in as that guy.

   20. JRJoe Rogan48:11

       (laughs)

   21. ACAndrew Dice Clay48:11

       And I'm doing Travolta. I'm going, "Yeah, you have some summonses for royal process serving?"

   22. JRJoe Rogan48:17

       (laughs)

   23. ACAndrew Dice Clay48:17

       You know, and ... You know, I'm doing Vinnie Barberto. (laughs) "Listen to this. You're gonna die. I swear, you're gonna crack up," right?

   24. JRJoe Rogan48:23

       And this was when that was on the air?

   25. ACAndrew Dice Clay48:24

       This is... No. Yes, yes. And this is after Fever hit. The, the way I got... Can I take these off now?

   26. JRJoe Rogan48:29

       Yeah.

   27. ACAndrew Dice Clay48:30

       So the way I got into it ... So since I was in high school, when Travolta hit with Barbarino, I realized I could do like the perfect Barbarino. But what am I gonna do with it other than entertaining high school kids? Now he comes out with Fever, and he dances. Great. But the night I saw Grease was the night my life changed. And there was no videos back then. You, you understand? So I'm coming home, and I'm like, "If I could turn-"... from an impression I'm doing since I'm a kid, seven years old, Jerry Lewis, nutty professor who would turn into Buddy Love. But if I could turn into Travolta from, from Professor Kelp, it would just kill as an act. Only, I w- I never do anything fake so I had to be able to sing as Travolta doing Grease Lightning, as you saw live. So I go to a studio in Brooklyn where, 'cause I kn- that's what I would do. I would drum, sing but, so I knew about, you know, where bands would go to, to record albums. So I went to a studio on Kings Highway in Brooklyn called Fly Studios, and I bring the Fever album and I bring Grease. And I ask these guys, "Can you get the lead vocal out of Grease Lightning?" 'Cause I'm not gonna do it fake. If I can't sound like him, I'm not doing the act. They got it out. I rehearsed for three weeks doing this act that these two guys, and I know it sounds like one of my old jokes, "What are your names, Neil and Bob? Is that, like, what you do?" You know, that was a heckler line. Right. But the guys that owned the studio's names were Neil and Bob. (laughs) Okay. So these guys are watching me, you know. I'm in the part where you could record and they're working, you know, the whole, you know, the, the board. And I come out of the bathroom looking like Jerry Lewis, the nutty professor. I'm like talking to the mirror, "Actually, uh, actually I'm a pity, ladies and gentlemen and I, I have my magic formula." And I'd take the formula and I'd say, "Okay, hit the music." There was an intro and I'd be in the dark, rip off the Jerry Lewis stuff, and now I'm Travolta from Grease. And I did that act at Pips in Brooklyn, which I think you got a picture of the owner with Rodney Dangerfield outside the club. Um, so I, I go to Pips on audition night and I come up as Jerry Lewis and I got my whole family there. My mother, my father, my sister and, 'cause I'm telling, "Don't forget, come to Pips." But what, what was amazing, when I put the act together, I had to sit in the theater all day and watch Grease with a pad like this and write down names for the moves Travolta was doing, or else I'd forget when I would rehearse the act that you were seeing. That, the guy in the middle, his name is George Schultz, you know, and Pips was the first real comedy club in America. Really? And it spawned Rodney. What year was that? Uh, I don't know what year they opened. I think he opened in the '60s and he, George himself should've been a comic. He just wasn't, okay? But he gave Rodney the line, "I don't get no respect." At least- Ah. Yeah. And he helped different guy- David Brenna every time he was gonna do- '62, holy shit. Yeah. And that- '62. It was a sushi place. So when- Mambo Sushi, look at that. Yeah. And he turned it into Pips. Wow. David Brenna. Wow. Any time Brenna was gonna do the Carson Show, George would help him with his set. So when the business wasn't doing well, Brenna would give them all kinds of money to survive, and the two sons ran the club. So I show up there. My parents are there. Now picture your parents, now you, your own parents watching Joe go on stage doing an impression he was doing at five. Going, "Really? This is why we're here?" Boo. And I'm on stage, I'm still 20 years old doing the Jerry Lewis, "Actually, ladies..." And, and it's a Brooklyn crowd just booing the fuck... "Get the fuck off! You fucking suck!" And I'm just committed. I go, "I have put together a formula." .......................... Like, okay. (coughs) I take the formula, um, Seth Schultz knew, shut the lights. I turn my back to the crowd. They're sc- they're screaming. You got 100 people, 99 people screaming to get outta the, off the stage. I'm slicking my hair back. I'm staying calm. Music starts. It's from Fever. "Ladies and gent-" To, uh, Disco Inferno, "Ladies and gentlemen, somebody new, somebody exciting and da da... Ladies and gentlemen, Andrew Clay." And I turn around with that, that, when you saw me in the leather jacket, that look, and I just pose and I start, like, a fake walk like Travolta in Fever, and they're starting to scream. Now it's turning. I wait 'cause I always wait. (laughs) Even to this day when I'm on stage I just wait. And, um, so I wait til it quiets down and I come up to the mic and I'm like, "Duh, huh, huh. So you thought it couldn't be done, right?" The place went nuts. Now I talk about the car. Here comes Grease Lightning. When I did Grease Lightning, you're talking about Brooklyn animals, and I know you know about that stuff 'cause you're from Boston. You know what kind of a- East Coast people. Yeah. They were throwing tables over. They're going fucking berserk. I don't even know what just happened. And as I'm leaving with my family, here come the two sons going, "Wait a minute, where you going?" You know. "Who are you?" Like, "What is that?" You know. They go, "We, we, y- you got a manager?" You know. And I just look at my father and I go, "Yeah, he's right here." And e- my family is stunned from what they just witnessed and they go, "Um, we wanna book your son to headline this coming weekend."... you know.

   28. JRJoe Rogan55:12

       What?

   29. ACAndrew Dice Clay55:13

       And I go-

   30. JRJoe Rogan55:14

       First time on stage?
5. 1:00:00 – 1:15:00

   Oh, yeah. …

   1. ACAndrew Dice Clay1:00:01

      me and Rick are talking and I go, "You know, you know how much I love going on late at night and just, you know, no reaction," 'cause that's how my career got made. I was always, like, one of the last few acts at night at the Comedy Store. You know, 'cause of 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 sets.

   2. JRJoe Rogan1:00:26

      Oh, yeah.

   3. ACAndrew Dice Clay1:00:27

      You know? And I go, "I wanna do, like, the ultimate late night set." You know? And s- he sorta 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, what, uh, you know, craziness surrounded me at that time. It was like the Lady Gaga of standup comedy, you know? And now I just wanna go up in front of a few people with no notes, with no idea of what the album's gonna be. And we, what, we do three nights at Dangerfield's and it winds up the double CD The Day the Laughter Died. Okay-... and I'm just loving it, you know. The silence-

   4. JRJoe Rogan1:01:19

      (laughs)

   5. ACAndrew Dice Clay1:01:19

      ... the smoke. You could hear me smoke.

   6. JRJoe Rogan1:01:21

      (laughs)

   7. ACAndrew Dice Clay1:01:22

      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'll lead to, could set me up for Saturday Night Live to tell you stuff, but... So th- this family comes in, these real fucking out-of-towners from, I don't know, Midwest, Bible Belt, you know, whatever they were, but they were all wearing the same coat and the same hat with the, with the bow on top. Two daughters, mother, father, and they're sitting in the front and the more I got into them, the more the father laughed, and I got angry at that 'cause I'm going, "This guy..." I would imagine in my mind that this guy really looks to fuck 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 motherfucker laughing when I'm doing this instead of going, like, cut it out?" 'Cause I know if I was sitting there with my two daughters and some comic, some asshole on stage is going, "So you like to have her on your lap?" or whatever I said on the album, you know, I'd look at the guy and go, "Walk away from me and my family," or "There's a problem," you know. That's how I would get. This guy's laughing and I'm angry about it.

   8. JRJoe Rogan1:02:55

      (laughs)

   9. ACAndrew Dice Clay1:02:55

      You know? So the more he would laugh, the more I would go after this motherfucker. 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 line on that where-

   10. JRJoe Rogan1:03:13

       You're about as funny as a glass of milk.

   11. ACAndrew Dice Clay1:03:15

       You know the album better than me-

   12. JRJoe Rogan1:03:16

       (laughs)

   13. ACAndrew Dice Clay1:03:17

       ... which is ridiculous. Why would you know? That's it.

   14. JRJoe Rogan1:03:20

       I love that album.

   15. ACAndrew Dice Clay1:03:22

       That-

   16. JRJoe Rogan1:03:22

       Let me tell you how I found out about that album. There's a great comic in Boston named Mike Donovan. Mike Donovan got the album-

   17. ACAndrew Dice Clay1:03:28

       I know that name. I don't know Mike.

   18. JRJoe Rogan1:03:29

       And you know, he's a very funny comic, very good guy, and he was a great guy when I was an open mic-er, would give you real good advice. He was the first guy to tell me, "Take a tape recorder on stage." He goes, "Sometimes you say things, you forgot what you said. Like, sometimes you said it in a different way and it's much better. You gotta listen to your recordings." Mike Donovan got ahold of your CD and he was in the back room of the fucking Comedy Connection, howling laughing-

   19. ACAndrew Dice Clay1:03:55

       (laughs)

   20. JRJoe Rogan1:03:55

       ... at you doing Nix- "I'll do Nixon in that ass." (laughs)

   21. ACAndrew Dice Clay1:03:59

       (laughs)

   22. JRJoe Rogan1:03:59

       And, and that to him was like one of the funniest fucking things. This guy was, he was laughing so hard. He was like, "He's a fucking psycho. He's out there bombing. He doesn't give a fuck. There's no laughs and it's hilarious. It's so ridiculous." This guy loved it. And, and I went out and got it. And I remember, you know, at the time, I was real young in comedy-

   23. ACAndrew Dice Clay1:04:21

       (laughs)

   24. JRJoe Rogan1:04:22

       ... and for, like for me, the idea of wanting this out there didn't even make any sense. Like, why would he do this? (laughs)

   25. ACAndrew Dice Clay1:04:28

       You don't know how much that means to me. See, that's what I lo- like to hear, you know.

   26. JRJoe Rogan1:04:33

       You know, it was, it was amazing to me because people try to pigeonhole you as this one-dimensional thing, and that is, that you're, you're missing the beauty of what he does. I always tell people this. I go from the... First of all, he's the first guy ever in standup that people knew the jokes and wanted to say the punchline along with him.

   27. ACAndrew Dice Clay1:05:01

       (laughs) It was craziness.

   28. JRJoe Rogan1:05:02

       It became a different thing. I go, "You have to understand, he cracked a code."

   29. ACAndrew Dice Clay1:05:06

       Well, that-

   30. JRJoe Rogan1:05:06

       This rhyme thing, what you did was, it was comedy plus. Like, it was another level of enjoyment.
6. 1:15:00 – 1:21:57

   You think that guy's…

   1. JRJoe Rogan1:15:00

      (laughs)

   2. ACAndrew Dice Clay1:15:00

      You think that guy's gonna be confident?

   3. JRJoe Rogan1:15:02

      Right.

   4. ACAndrew Dice Clay1:15:03

      He knows what he looks like, so he's gonna be self-deprecating. And that's how comics would get laid back there, you know-

   5. JRJoe Rogan1:15:10

      Uh-huh.

   6. ACAndrew Dice Clay1:15:10

      ... in those times. They weren't good-looking people. Today, you got better looking people.

   7. JRJoe Rogan1:15:16

      But Lenny Bruce was a good-looking guy.

   8. ACAndrew Dice Clay1:15:17

      Yeah, I, yeah, which his mother said to me. That was a big compliment, 'cause I'm with Mitzi, and Mitzi would say to Sally, 'cause I used to sit with Sally at Schwab's, you know, and she'd always go, "Oh, you're handsome like my Lenny."

   9. JRJoe Rogan1:15:31

      Wow.

   10. ACAndrew Dice Clay1:15:31

       It was a compliment, 'cause I knew he was a nice-looking guy. And Mitzi would say to Sally, she'd go, "He's a movie star. He's not even a comic," you know. She never had that. The, all those comics back then, just look at 'em. Look at the-

   11. JRJoe Rogan1:15:45

       Hmm.

   12. ACAndrew Dice Clay1:15:45

       ... pictures on the wall at The Comedy Store and you'll know, but just to get back to The Day After Laugh Died, 'cause people are listening, um, so Geffen tells me, "Why? Why does this have to be? Why can't we just trash this?" And I go, "'Cause it's never been done. Every comic gets recorded. They do their very, very best to kill. I did my best to bomb."

   13. JRJoe Rogan1:16:11

       Dude.

   14. ACAndrew Dice Clay1:16:12

       You know, I just wanted to see what I could come up with in front of a couple people." He goes, "But why a double album? Why can't it just be a s-"

   15. JRJoe Rogan1:16:20

       (laughs)

   16. ACAndrew Dice Clay1:16:20

       I go, "Same reason. Never done," okay?

   17. JRJoe Rogan1:16:24

       (laughs)

   18. ACAndrew Dice Clay1:16:24

       And Mitzi, by the way, would come to the arenas with me when I did the Forum. I'd pick her up in the limo. She'd fly to New York. She was at the Garden. She was at the Meadowlands-

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:16:34

       Oh, awesome.

   20. ACAndrew Dice Clay1:16:34

       ... which sold out at that time.

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:16:36

       That's awesome.

   22. ACAndrew Dice Clay1:16:36

       Meadowlands, biggest arena ever, 21,500, sold out in 40 minutes.

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:16:42

       Wow.

   24. ACAndrew Dice Clay1:16:42

       That my, my agent, Dennis Offer, at that time, who the only other comic he's ever handled was Rodney, and I'd been with him and Pete Pappalardo for 35 years, okay, my whole career. And when Dennis saw me do the Rodney special, um, he came over to me. He goes, "I've seen every comic. I come to every one of Rodney's specials. I never wanted any of them. I want you." And I, I'd been with him all this time. And, uh, so I'll tell you the rise to the arenas. But, so Mitzi comes over my house. I'm just trying to keep my place here for you. After the David Geffen experience, okay, and she goes, "I wanna hear this album. I'm hearing things about it," you know, and it's not out yet, you know. So I, I put on a CD, and she's listening. You know Mitzi. She's always truthful, you know, tells you how she thinks. And she goes, "Andrew, what is this?" I go, and I want to laugh in her face but I gotta keep it str- I go, "Uh, it's my new album. What do you think?" She goes, "It's gonna ruin your career." I go, "This?" Um, "I don't think so. Just like you told me about Dice would never work, you know, it's not gonna ruin the career." I go, "I don't want..." She goes, "I don't wanna see your career. You worked so hard to get the..." I go, "Don't worry about it." Bottom line, album comes out, four days, gold.

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:18:19

       (laughs)

   26. ACAndrew Dice Clay1:18:19

       I don't even know how many platinums it is to this day.

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:18:22

       (laughs)

   28. ACAndrew Dice Clay1:18:22

       It's the biggest selling comedy album ever, as far as I know, okay? The biggest comedy, and for comics, it's like a bible for some fucking reason. See, I don't see what you see. I just know I like being a guy that, that did things first. See, that's what I loved about Elvis. When Elvis came along, there was nobody for him to talk to, to go, "How do I handle being Elvis?" You know?

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:18:50

       Yeah, but you understand like the, the, the, just the ability to put out something of you bombing in the height of your stardom. Do you know how nuts that is? Like, it's really hilarious. I know you just did it 'cause you wanted to be first, but it's just-

   30. ACAndrew Dice Clay1:19:04

       Well, no, but I also know how-

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