Asked if he’s going to the Oscars, Clay (born Andrew Silverstein) says he thinks he’s got a gig that night: “It was fun going to the SAG Awards (Screen Actors Guild, a few weeks ago), because it’s basically the same people. It’s a looser show. So I was able to talk to chicks, which is part of the reason I went. Now,, who’s gonna be opening for me in Connecticut, she went with me to the SAG Awards cuz she’s a great wing man.” He saw Michael Douglas there, whom he worked with on the film “One Night at McCool’s”; Alan Arkin and others. “When they get up there and say things like, ‘All my peers are amazing,’ they’re right because the art of acting and becoming this certain kind of. Character, whatever, it’s a very difficult thing. More Information Stress Factory, 167 State St., Bridgeport. Friday-Saturday, Feb. 22-23, 7:30 p.m. 203-576-4242 Bridgeport.StressFactory.com With another good review in the Bradley Cooper-Lady Gaga film (as Gaga’s character’s father), you’d think the Brooklyn transplant would be devoting himself to acting more than raunchy comedy in this #Me-Too Era. But no; he loves standup. ![]() Another acting role, says Dice, would have to be “something special. Because of the kinds of roles and people I’ve been getting to work with, I’m not gonna do a B-movie.”. Asked about Trump-led “Celebrity Apprentice 2” a decade ago, Clay says, “I don’t talk politics” but then goes on to tell a story about how he once enticed Donald Trump to fix the roof of his sister’s Brooklyn apartment building as a sweetener for a Dice performance deal at Trump’s Atlantic City casinos. In his standup, Clay says Trump stole his act during his presidential campaign. “I find it funny,” he says. “He has the Dice attitude and he wears the Rodney Dangerfield outfit, with the red tie.” Clay said he didn’t even know what the “Apprentice” show was and lasted just one episode, after staying up late drinking with Green and “smoking a little weed” the night before an early morning boardroom meeting. “My whole life I’ve been going to sleep at 4 a.m. If I’m with a chick, I’m gonna (be with) her til 5 in the morning.” In the boardroom of the show, he raised his hand, then gestured to the sushi on the table and asked the future president, “There’s no, like, bagels and butter? And he’s like, ‘What?’. With old dirty nursery rhymes and a new series, Andrew Dice Clay returns Apr 10, 2016 by User Andrew Dice Clay on shooting ‘Vinyl’: ‘I was stoned out every day’. ![]() I’m going, ‘Yeah, there’s no bagels. Who doesn’t have bagels in the morning?’” Clay’s car momentarily struggles with the phone signal as he cruises over an L.A. Hill, sending the Four Tops song “I Can’t Help Myself” onto the stereo speakers (appropriately) as the phone audio shifts to his phone’s speaker — causing the 61-year-old Clay to curse and then express surprise we’re still connected. “I’m just trying to work my way to the (blanking) gym, so I can keep this body, which is basically being kept together with pins and glue. My sports is working out. That’s why, on Instagram, I’m always posting pictures of the gym. I try to be inspiring to people that feel like the whole game is over. I’ve been through it; I had a heart attack a year ago.” Speaking of Instagram, as he sits in the parking lot of the gym, he calls up a message photo sent to him showing an old image of the Diceman in leather jacket with the words “You kids think you’re offended now? Let me introduce you to someone.” He hasn’t lost that engaging/offensive edge, really, saying “If I stopped doing what I’m doing, we might as well not call this America anymore. It’s freedom of speech; I’m doing it in clubs and theaters. The people that come to see me look at it like a breath of fresh air because time has stood still for me as far as my reaction to political correctness.” [email protected]; @Joeammo on Twitter.
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