# Andrew Dice Clay on Sha Na Na?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-dice-clay-on-sha-na-na/176674
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 21, 2003, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-dice-clay-on-sha-na-na/176674 "2003-05-21T23:32:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Philosophocles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philosophocles)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2003, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-dice-clay-on-sha-na-na/176674/1 "2003-05-21T23:32:35Z")
Most people know that Andrew Dice Clay appeared on Diff’rent Strokes, but was he ever on Sha Na Na? Do you think he could stick his whole fist in his mouth if Bowser challenged him?
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### Author:  [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2003, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-dice-clay-on-sha-na-na/176674/2 "2003-05-22T00:50:05Z")
Wouldn’t he have been about 10 years old at the time Sha Na Na had a show? Was he even born yet when they played Woodstock?
Did you know Bowser is actually a classicly trained orchestra director?
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2003, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-dice-clay-on-sha-na-na/176674/3 "2003-05-22T01:34:43Z")
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> \*Originally posted by voguevixen \*
> **Wouldn’t he have been about 10 years old at the time Sha Na Na had a show?**
Almost twice that when the show premeired in '77.
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> **Was he even born yet when they played Woodstock?**
Yes, he was born in '58.
Info courtesy [IMDb](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Clay,+Andrew+Dice).
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### Author:  [@Oblong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oblong)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2003, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-dice-clay-on-sha-na-na/176674/4 "2003-05-22T01:52:05Z")
You got me thinking. I’ve seen ADC on those VH1 specials on the 80s. I’m wondering if he missed the boat by about a decade. His schtick was pretty evident on the VH1 shows to the point where his comedy would be more acceptable in today’s Howard Stern/Jackass/Shock Value media environment. If he came about today would he be a huge star? I’m not looking to debate whether his version of humor is funny or not but whether it would be more accepted? Did he screw up by not going a bit further so that it was over the top and it could then be taken more lightly? Does that make sense?
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### Author:  [@Payton\_s\_Servant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Payton_s_Servant)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2003, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-dice-clay-on-sha-na-na/176674/5 "2003-05-22T03:28:57Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Oblong \*
> \*\*You got me thinking. I’ve seen ADC on those VH1 specials on the 80s. I’m wondering if he missed the boat by about a decade. His schtick was pretty evident on the VH1 shows to the point where his comedy would be more acceptable in today’s Howard Stern/Jackass/Shock Value media environment. If he came about today would he be a huge star? I’m not looking to debate whether his version of humor is funny or not but whether it would be more accepted? Did he screw up by not going a bit further so that it was over the top and it could then be taken more lightly? Does that make sense? \*\*
How more _over the top_ could his material have possibly been, unless he had a girl come up on stage and give him a blowjob while he screeched and bleated about how _"all chicks are really bitches._"
Yeah, that’s piss my pants funny. :rolleyes:
The only person to blame for _The Diceman’s_ downfall is the _Diceman_ himself, and he’s too much of a piggish egocentric mysogenist to do that. Instead he has blamed, among other people, Twentyeth Century Fox for not promoting **The Adventures of Ford Fairlane** enough, just about every woman in America, Howard Stern, for being friends with Sam Kineson, and somehow plotting with Kineson to destroy Dice’s career, and the media for making him out to be a mysogenistic, racist, bigoted AssHat.
The media didn’t have to do anything except let Dice open his mouth, and Dice did the rest.
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### Author:  [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2003, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-dice-clay-on-sha-na-na/176674/6 "2003-05-22T03:58:56Z")
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> \*Originally posted by voguevixen \*
> \*\*Wouldn’t he have been about 10 years old at the time Sha Na Na had a show? Was he even born yet when they played Woodstock?
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> Did you know Bowser is actually a classicly trained orchestra director? \*\*
Not only that, Santini (Scott Powell) is an orthopedic surgeon.
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### Author:  [@Oblong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oblong)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2003, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-dice-clay-on-sha-na-na/176674/7 "2003-05-23T02:50:03Z")
Payton, chill out-I never said ADC was funny or that it was anybody’s fault.
You have to admit that what is accepted today is far different than what was accepted back in the early 90s. Half of what passes for comedy today I don’t consider funny. The point I tried to make is, would ADC be more accepted today? I think he would.