Andrew Dice Clay
Andrew Clay Silverstein known professionally as Andrew Dice Clay is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He rose to prominence in the late 1980s with a brash, deliberately offensive persona known as "The Diceman", a cartoonishly hyper-masculine, Italian-American street-tough caricature that claimed to weaponise misogyny, ethnic bravado, and shock but caused widespread offense.
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- Born in
- New York City
- Educated at
- James Madison High SchoolKingsborough Community CollegeAndries Hudde Junior High School
- Awards
- 🏆 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor
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1957
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