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I'm Over Here Now

Andrew Dice Clay

2000 · 82 min

The Diceman brings his abrasive Brooklyn persona to Las Vegas.

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Andrew Dice Clay grounds this hour in the attention-demanding catchphrase that became his signature. When a transition requires a bridge or he abruptly changes subjects, out comes the bark: “I’m over here now”. It operates as a verbal leash, snapping the audience back to the Diceman’s smoke-filled reality. Filmed at the Las Vegas Hilton for a 2000 pay-per-view broadcast, the show captures Clay a decade after his arena-packing peak at Madison Square Garden. He refuses to soften the leather-clad Brooklyn persona for a new era, sticking firmly to the abrasive crowd work and adult nursery rhymes that built his initial fanbase.

The set list

4 bits

  1. Adult dirty nursery rhymes

    Opening the set by revisiting his signature obscene Mother Goose rhymes.

  2. Heckling an audience member with his mother

    Confronting and berating an audience member who brought his mother to the standup performance.

  3. Extended verbal assault on midgets

    Delivering an aggressive and derogatory tirade targeting little people.

  4. Rants about 'yambags' and 'dry bananas'

    Employing his crude signature slang and sexual terminology to talk about women.

How it plays

Tone
Crass, raunchy, puerile, and offensive shock humor.
On stage
The 'Diceman' persona in a middle-aged incarnation, clad in a Bedazzler-damaged leather jacket and Joey Buttafuoco pants, acting like an over-the-hill prize fighter slugging away.
Pace
Dispirited, indifferently paced, nearly punchline-free, delivered with blunt persistence.
About
dirty nursery rhymes, relationships and women, taboo and shock subjects, 1990s celebrity scandals

What the critics said

Severely panned by critics like Nathan Rabin of The A.V. Club as a 'vaguely tragic, wholly unfunny attempt at a comeback' relying on cheap shock and dispirited bullying, while received by core fans as a raunchy, raw return to form.

In the room: Characterized by critics as an audience of nostalgic fans reliving his stone-washed glory days.

Summed up from reviews, articles and listings. Sources: imdb.com, thetvdb.com, avclub.com, dvdloc8.com, letterboxd.com, en.wikipedia.org.

Backstory

Filmed in the late 1990s post-heyday era with topical references to the O.J. Simpson trial and President Clinton's marital scandals.

Details

Released
Runtime
82 min
Director
D-J Haanraadts, Phil Reynolds
Topics
Before
No Apologies (The Real Me) (1993)
After
Banned for Life (2000)

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