# Hour BACK - get it? Dice Clay **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 28, 2012, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hour-back-get-it-dice-clay/645415 "2012-12-28T19:09:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![youngdouche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@youngdouche](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/youngdouche)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2016, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hour-back-get-it-dice-clay/645415/21 "2016-04-14T05:24:18Z")
This joke is based on the fact that the phrase “call you back” is a double entendre, which can mean either “return your call” or “call you ‘Back’” (in the sense of the addressee being named “Back”). When Dice says “I’ll call you back in an hour”, he is using the second meaning of “I’ll call you ‘Back’ in an hour.” After an hour elapses (indicated by a small pause in the routine) he yells out “Back”, which is exactly what he said he would do. Hour back… get it? ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2016, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hour-back-get-it-dice-clay/645415/22 "2016-04-14T05:49:13Z")
Looks like our Thread is _BACK_! OUR! BACK! ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2016, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hour-back-get-it-dice-clay/645415/23 "2016-04-14T06:14:57Z")
Now I want to hear it again. Because I never got it the first time. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2016, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hour-back-get-it-dice-clay/645415/24 "2016-04-14T10:20:31Z")
An old roommate of mine used to quote that “hour back” thing over and over. We just ignored him. (Other things he liked to quote were “me so horny, me love you long time”, “Black Betty, ram-a-lam” and “sweat from my balls!”) ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2016, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hour-back-get-it-dice-clay/645415/25 "2016-04-14T11:48:05Z")
I wasn’t a big fan in the day but knew of him well enough to watch the Showtime series that is out now On Demand. Adrian Brody does Dice (Ep 2) is the best. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2016, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hour-back-get-it-dice-clay/645415/26 "2016-04-14T13:09:59Z")
I never thought much of him as a comedian, but he was sublime in _Blue Jasmine_. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hour-back-get-it-dice-clay/645415/27 "2016-04-15T00:23:10Z")
I think that many here are being to hard on him. “Hard on…him!” No, but, seriously… He was revolutionary at the time; non-PC, irreverent, shocking, great delivery, the dashing, studly Italian toughguy that the babes in the audience want to get down and dirty with, and the guys could look up to. It was either The Diceman Cometh or the one after that, that was his last funny one. After that, he was living on his rep. His big problem was that he stopped being funny. He got fat. He even got the balls to start \*singing \*in his act. He started balding, and wearing some over the top hideously loud sky blue sport jacket, that made Eddie Murphy’s red suit look sedate, which made him into some fat wanker, instead of the macho stud. He stopped working on his delivery, and correct comic timing. At that point, everything that made him famous was gone. He wasn’t even a caricature of his old self. The Diceman was dead. Of course, he always had a good amount of talent, so he didn’t disappear. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hour-back-get-it-dice-clay/645415/28 "2016-04-15T04:49:43Z")
I still can’t listen to any of that without being embarrassed for humans everywhere. I stand by my post, number 7, from 3+ years ago. What a complete fucking idiot. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hour-back-get-it-dice-clay/645415/29 "2016-04-15T04:58:17Z")
> [@handsomeharry](#): > > I think that many here are being to hard on him. “Hard on…him!” > No, but, seriously… > > He was revolutionary at the time; non-PC, irreverent, shocking, great delivery, the dashing, studly Italian toughguy that the babes in the audience want to get down and dirty with, and the guys could look up to. > > It was either The Diceman Cometh or the one after that, that was his last funny one. > After that, he was living on his rep. His big problem was that he stopped being funny. He got fat. He even got the balls to start \*singing \*in his act. He started balding, and wearing some over the top hideously loud sky blue sport jacket, that made Eddie Murphy’s red suit look sedate, which made him into some fat wanker, instead of the macho stud. He stopped working on his delivery, and correct comic timing. At that point, everything that made him famous was gone. He wasn’t even a caricature of his old self. The Diceman was dead. > > Of course, he always had a good amount of talent, so he didn’t disappear. PC wasn’t particularly big at the time, and there were a crowd of irreverent comics who were better than he. Lenny Bruce, Redd Foxx, Richard Pryor, SAM! (I love him 🙂 ), and numerous others. But I’ll still and always love his rendition of “I Ain’t Got You.” ---
**Author:** ![Lochdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/edb3f5/32.png) [@Lochdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lochdale)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hour-back-get-it-dice-clay/645415/30 "2016-04-15T15:21:18Z")
He’s just not funny and I sort of want to like him but, you know, not funny. ---
**Author:** ![pnschofield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/43a26b/32.png) [@pnschofield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pnschofield)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2018, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hour-back-get-it-dice-clay/645415/31 "2018-02-13T21:57:47Z")
Rick Rubin considers it one of his top 21 recordings, FWIW. YMMV. I completely get why most people wouldn’t consider it funny. > [@](#): > > “Hour Back … Get It?” means nothing. It’s a routine he personally found very funny and nobody else found it funny. He had a friend named Auerbach, and it was sort of a play on his friend’s name. So maybe the whole joke might have just been to make one person laugh who wasn’t there. It couldn’t have been more of an inside joke. It wasn’t even a joke. > > What you hear is a guy saying things that are sometimes funny, sometimes not. But his commitment to how funny he thinks it is, and how hard he’s selling it to nothing, to no response, is what’s so funny. It’s, like, he’s so convinced that this is funny. In a way, it’s got this existential quality. Of all the Dice albums, it’s my favorite. > **[Rick Rubin: My Life in 21 Songs](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/rick-rubin-my-life-in-21-songs-26024/andrew-dice-clay-hour-back-get-it-1990-30261/)** > > Rick Rubin reflects on more than three decades of pushing the boundaries of rap, rock, metal and country. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2018, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hour-back-get-it-dice-clay/645415/32 "2018-02-14T18:58:21Z")
I thought he was kinda funny, when I was like 12. Not a big draw for me, just if I happened to see him somewhere or some one repeated some of his material. If people like/liked his shtick, meh, so what. Offensive shmafensive, some people could stand getting offended now and then instead of reeing like jackasses at the drop of a hat ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2018, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hour-back-get-it-dice-clay/645415/33 "2018-02-14T19:43:24Z")
I was going to comment on how little I liked his comedy, but how much I liked him in _Blue Jasmine_. But I see I already said that two years ago, so never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2018, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hour-back-get-it-dice-clay/645415/34 "2018-02-14T23:28:33Z")
Clay was good in _One Night at McCool’s_, a movie I think is criminally under-rated. “You, [points shotgun at Paul Reiser] I’ll kill just for annoying me.” ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2018, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hour-back-get-it-dice-clay/645415/35 "2018-02-15T00:34:13Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Clay was good in _One Night at McCool’s_, a movie I think is criminally under-rated. > > “You, [points shotgun at Paul Reiser] I’ll kill just for annoying me.” I really liked Ford Fairlaine. I think it was under-rated too, snapperhead. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hour-back-get-it-dice-clay/645415/37 "2020-04-10T13:12:33Z")
He was also in _A Star is Born_, if you haven’t seen that. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hour-back-get-it-dice-clay/645415/39 "2020-04-10T16:10:57Z")
He’s just boring, in every way. We need to realize that stand-up comedy is an empty ritual, that rarely is actually funny. It’s almost never clever. ---
**Author:** ![fjs1fs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9e8a1a/32.png) [@fjs1fs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fjs1fs)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hour-back-get-it-dice-clay/645415/40 "2020-04-10T19:59:33Z")
> [@ClaireM](#): > > I hate to say this, but I’d probably get on well w/ said room-mate. Not that I don’t enjoy ADC’s filthy nursery rhymes (i’ve gone off pizza a bit now), but I think he’d’ve done better doing more actual songs. > I think his ‘I Ain’t Got You’ is better than Gary Moore’s version, which was & is fantastic. > As a disabled woman I am exactly the type of person ADC would mock/yell @, & I love that. I see it as 1 of the few positives to said situation. > [Dice Rules movie review & film summary (1991) | Roger Ebert](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/dice-rules-1991) > > As for the comment re providing a release valve. I’d luv to release his valve. OH!! I was actually at his concert at MSG around that time, so maybe it was the one used for the film that Ebert so thoroughly trashed. I’m glad you like “handicap humor.” I actually usually don’t, but his routine that night had me laughing as hard as I ever laughed, either before or since. And everyone in my group felt the same when discussing afterward: “That was so terrible. So wrong. But SO F’ING FUNNY!” That’s what comedy is all about. A lot of comedy is going to offend Someone. His Nursery Rhyme jokes that night were kind of MEH, and that’s what he was most famous for. In my opinion his career went off the rails because he took all of the criticism too seriously–I remember he went on a talk show and cried. I agree with the above posters that Eddie Murphy’s standup was probably more offensive, and in my opinion not as funny. And I actually think Murphy can be as funny as just about anyone. He was actually funnier when he was “clean,” like in his SNL days. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2020, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hour-back-get-it-dice-clay/645415/42 "2020-04-11T21:34:48Z")
Whole lotta Banned posters in this thread. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hour-back-get-it-dice-clay/645415.md?page=1)