Its all emotion because youre telling your story. Sops the thing is i like doing thing the way i like to do it. Thats the way ive done it my whole life. You earned that right. Working with him, hes a master at the doing autobiographies. I mean, everybody frommeta ja t james to marvin perry to myself just did yours, you know. So there were heated moments. But in the end, i let them know its a masterpiece. What he did is incredible, and i give him all the credit in the world for it because i couldnt have done it alone. He worked on yours and worked with me on my dr. King book. But yours is the filthy truth. Little bit different. I think my fan are going to enjoy it fans are going to enjoy it. I think your fans will enjoy it. Which leads me to gask, when this is not a critique, just a question. When, where and how did provocation because this is a provocative title, the filthy truth, i would expect nothing less from you. When, where, and how did provocation become such a central piece to how you express yourself artistically . Well, you know, ive been asked this in a lot of different ways, why my act is the way it is. When i look at the world, the 50s were nice, the 60s were nice. But as the worldesque la esquee je escalates, im talking about Human Behavior between men and women. Thats what i like to talk about on stage because thats how i make people laugh at themselves. When i take these sexual things and paint these bigger than life cartoonish, comedic pictures. Thats what i like to do. And i kill them with it. Theres nobody that can do it like that. Ive had so many comics going, i want to be controversial like you. I go, i didnt set out to be controversial. I just set out to be funny. I come from brooklyn, new york, which ill always thanks for being me. Greatest Stomping Ground in the world to grow up. And i got a good look at the world that way. Especially women because growing up in brooklyn, you got a lot of great girls in brooklyn. When i used to date girls, i would never think, you know, i know no means no. I grew up with a good family that taught me this stuff. I would never make a move on a girl quickly. Id make her my girlfriend. Then what would happen is i moved to l. A. , and they had a whole different set of rules out there. You know . The girls out here, i felt like the girl. Like id be like, you want to get something to eat . No, where do you live . W go, oh, okay. U live . Then what i would hear come out of their mouths, the most beautiful girls, saying the filthiest things id ever hear, so when i started coming out of the act i started with which is impression and developing my onstage persona as Andrew Dice Clay, i wouldic that material and just blow it up and make it funny for people. Theres so much people will learn ka im glad you wrote ts because theres so much about your back story that people dont know that they will now know courtesy of the truth. Where did the nickname dice come from . Thats in the book. Come on no, all the years when people would ask me where the name dice comes from, i go, i dont talk about it. Its not that big of a deal, yet it wound up as very big deal because of what went on with my career and whats going on with my career. Let me ask you stuff from the book that you will talk about. Ill talk about anything. All right, except that. Yeah. Not that great of a story. I think tea party a great story. I digress, well leave that. I got more questions. Necessa theres a lot to talk about. Theres funny stuff, but theres also, dice, a lot of sobering stuff in here. I think every one of us who moves around the country like you do youre always on planes, im always on planes. You cant do anything sitting in one place. You got a lot to travel a lot. Theres a sobering story here of one night when you thought you were dead on a plane over iowa yeah, yeah. Idaho. No, coming out of iowa. I was doing a movie called brain smash with er terri hatcher. We had a 13city tour, a private jet, sixseat jet. There were two shows id have to do in that tour in iowa, and when after we did the first show in iowa and we were flying through kansas city in a big storm. 300 feet from the ground, we hit a wind shear. The plane went sideways. Everybody on the plane of just freaking was just freaking out. It was almost like almost famou famous, deal going down in a private plane. I crawled to the front to tell the pilots, just get us out of here, i dont care about the show. And all i could think about of a year old. Thats all i could think about. Its like your whole life flashes. Im like, i got to get us out of here. Theres no way im not going home after this. It was bad. It was very bad. When they finally came around another way and did the show that night. I remember i had an opening act, eric edwards, a8 young kid, teaches acting. He was crying in the bathroom. And i was. I have to be the strength of the group, and i was saying, but we made it here. Lets go out and make these it was like 10,000 people, lets make them laugh. How did that experience ive had a similar experience where i was on stage hours later. I actually at one point lost it on stage. And by losing it, i couldnt control i was trying to hold those tears down, and they came up. It turned out to be one of the great speeches of my life because people got a chance to see you in that moment where your humanity comes through. My guys got to see it, but the audience didnt. I was so thrilled to be alive, i just wanted to go out and destroy that audience. Im going ask you, thats the way it impacted me. How did it impact you . Was the performance even better that night . Yeah. My whole thing has always been to to actually just thrill people. Thats the kind of comic i am. I walk out going, i never saw anything like this. Me. It was even more that night because it was like a celebration of life to me. The awed youyents didnt know what happened, and i didnt want them to know what happened. I just wanted them to have the time to come and see me the time of their lives coming to see me. What wound up happening, i called my father at the time. You know, i told him, just cancel the next show in iowa. I dont want to go back to iowa. I just got a bad feeling about it. Within two days, hes calling, he has my buddy hop hotj tu johnny hot tub john . Right. He said, finish the tour. I got angry at my agent. They didnt understand the severity of what we went through. I canceled the rest of the tour and went back to portland where they were doing the movie. Was there a price that you paid for that . Yeah, 250,000. I meant no, that was the price. We had to pay the promoters back that put up advertising, and i told my father, i dont care. I go, if you were on the plane, you would have understood what happened. You nearly lost your son. You know. And the same thing was said to my wife at the time. That relationship was rocky. Is there anything youre i ask only because you that night had a scare in that plane. Is there anything that in life frightens you . Thats an interesting question. You seem like a guy that nothing well,7 i dont fear like physical thing. You know, like with other men, that kind of stuff. Ive gotten my butt kicked a few times in my life. I know what it is to be hit. Those kind of thing dont really scare me. Ups and downs of your career . You know, when you pray at night, what do you pray for . To help your and your family. You know, thats what its about to me. So im very protective of my family. Yeah. The ups and down in your career dont scare you because you no, that i dont care about really. Career like when when i went through the breakup with my wife, all i really cared about was raising my boys. Had nothing to do what good is it to have 100 hit movies but your kids are idiots . You know what i mean . There was nobody there to if they want to show something they drew in school or there to pick them up if they fall, thats the most important stuff. You know, just to be there for them, to teach them, to raise them, to listen to them. That thats what i care but i would always tell my kids, you know they werent even kids anymore. They were in their early teens. They would see me at the lowest lows because nothing of going on in the career. You know, id go out, i could make a living, but it was hard. You know, i used to tell them that i like teaching by example. I would say wait until i turn it on again. As i got older, i started getting the feeling to turn it on again because the one thing i feel great about today is working with guys like woody allen and martinkp scorsese, th top of the top, the top great actors, cate blanchett, you know, people like that, you know, is that you could you know, thats what i needed to do for myself once i brought them up. To prove that from years ago it wasnt just a fluke. And its interesting because before my father passed away, one of our conversations was, he goes, youre going to climb up there again, and theyre never going to be able to knock you down again. I would be like, how do you know . He goes, because you always had the talent. Its always been there, it was just overshadowed by all that negative press and, you know, what you he goes, you wanted to become the elvis of standup comedy. He goes, and you did it. He goes, what happened to elvis when he first took off . Everybody was against him until ed sullivan said this is a great guy. He goerks you always had the talent. He office until i started the entourage. You said to your boys, wait until i turn it back on again. Wait until inr turn it back up again. You said that with confidence that you knew you could dial it back up. Well, i always knew my talent. See, that was the thing other comedians couldnt take when i was starting out. Even at 2 00 in the morning if there were nine people on the crowd, i come off stage comic always look to knock each other down. Say a comic walk over and goes, tough set, you had, dice . I go, tough set. Those same people will pay thousands to sit in the front row of the garden. I knew what i was meant to do. I had this conversation with my son, dylan, the other night about knowing inside what youre meant to do. Like if you find your talents, you know, its what you do with it. You know, like people talk about godgiven talent. I feel my sonszw have godgiven talents, and theyre proving it. But its what you do with it. God isnt there to go, okay, now youve got to stop playing these clubs. Once you find your talent, what you do with it is up to you. I always believed in myself. The one thing that is absolutely true about who i am is my confidence and belief in my abilities. Did you believe that did you believe or know or hope that the business would let you back in . I didnt think about it in that way. I just went for it. Especially once i got entourage. Doug allen who writes the forward in this book, he know it as well as i did. He was a fan when he was a smki and he writes about it. He says said, im putting you on the last season of january tr entourage, and wait until you see what happens. He knew. I give him all the credit in the world because, you know, what was unbelievable is that the first movie i get after entourage is woody allen. You know, that blew my mind. How much more dialup do you have left . Im hearing rumor again about Madison Square garden again. Well, what is coming up is the 25th anniversary of when i did Madison Square garden. And weve been talking about this, me and my crew you and agent. Im excited about my acting career. I have a show in the works at fox 21. Im doing the show for Martin Scorsese, his new hbo project. But i think i owe to myself and all these people that have been so behindv7hinycfcrnicsc . Z just to show my sons at a time when i wasnt doing it what it would feel like because i knew it would go in. There were only six in ten. Now they were only 6 and 10. Now theyre 20 and 24. We were talking that this is an event that in pop culture will never be forgotten. And i like to be that guy and influence all these other generations of comics that are coming up now. Somebodys got to do it, im the one whos got to do it. Does that manys going to happen . You know what, i cant tell you for sure. Im not going to say for sure. Do i want to do it . I got to train my butt off because youve got to physically be ready to face a crowd of 18,000. If im going give them that show, i want it bigger and stronger and better than ive ever been. Let me throw some themes at you. You can throw anywhere you want to take it. Theme that are covered in this book. In no particular oord women. Theres a lot of women in this tech. Yes, there are. You know, i try to give the fans a look at what i was when i was younger which is an animal. What i was in my 30s, which of an animal. What i am now which is still an animal. You met my wife, you know. I always just loved women. More important than loving women, more important than sexual stuff is i always believed in romance. You know, thats why i got married three times. Thats why i believe in it. You know, with my my last wife you know, my childrens mom, you know, that went on for 16 years because i always believed you could fix whatever problems. Then you hurt a certain level, and if its not working comes a time you got to part. Gambling. A lot of gambling. Lot of gambling. And you know what, ive had a lot of fun with that, im not into it now. I used it during the recession. I didnt gamble for ten years. You know, i was being threatened with foreclosure, all that stuff. I had like 30 grand, went to vegas and won 1. 150 million with that money. I got in a cycle for a few years. You never get to really keep the money. If youre going buy a car, buy it the day you win. Which i did. I bought four cars. I paid off a lot of bills and then lost 80 of it back. Thats what it is. I dont look at gambling as an accomplishment. I looked at it to help me, and it did. I dont suggest to anybody watching the show because youre going to wind up losing. Thats how the game goes, you know. When you win a lot of money at a table, thats great, but theres no accomplishment there. When you stand on stage at a place like Madison Square garden and you got 20,000, 18,000 people going nuts from the talent that was god given, thats an accomplishment. When you film something for Martin Scorsese and you see it on tv and go look at this, thats accomplishment, thats lasting. So i got sicked in again. It went in a cycle for a while. I re youll read about the gamb gambli gambling. The business, agents, managers, studios. The business. You know what . I love it. No matter what ive been through in show business, and ive been through a lot, i wouldnt i wouldnt change what i do for anything in the world. You know, and i think spike lee said it best when he goes, to be able this isnt an exact quote. He said, to do what you love, to get out of bed and do what you love every day is an amazing thing. So, i preach that. Thats what i see to people. If thats something you love to do, its worth fighting for. Anything i ever went through with agents, managers, its all part of the business. You know, its like the godfather. This is the business we chose. You know, only when were not shooting each other, just badmouthing. Everybody in the business, you work with somebody, theyre the greatest. The day you dont work with them, i hate that guy. Its a funny business. The acting, i sense from the text and from this conversation and from the prior conversation that you want to do a lot the more i love acting. That was always the aim. The aim of not comedy. I the aim was not comedy. I just used the comedy stiej develop my acting chops. You know, rather than being in acting school, a traditional acting school and do a scene once a week, i was able to get on a stage every night. I didnt know the comic i was when i started. That all developed. I started going, you know, you really are funny. You know, whats your point of view . I started going on stage and thinking about the life i was leading and you know, im talking about when i was 21, 22, 23. And seeing the experiences i was living in hollywood will. In hollywood. I just Start Talking about it on stage. Youve been at this for 35 years now. How have your values or what you value changed over that 35 years of doing this . The values are the same because i was taught well, but the reasons become different. See, were in such a narcissistic business. When i see actresses, actors, its all about me. You know, see, i never did it for all about me. Of course i wanted to accomplish personally, but i loved my family so much when i was growing up, my parents, my sister, i wanted to give them everything they dreamed of. My mother used to sit around saving a few years dollars from my father, you know, to get that garden apartment condo in florida. And i used to say, ma, dont save it, spend it. Dont worry, ill take care of it. How are you going take care of it . The face, im a star, ma. They wound up getting everything they dreamed of. Now its about my sons. They give me the reason. You can either fold, or you can show them what it take to make it in this world. Just watching them and seeing them grow into what they want to do is is the biggest pleasure in my life. The dice man is back. If you want to know what and how dice became the name, you got to buy the book. But the book is out now. Its called the filthy truth Andrew Dice Clay with david rich. Im glad you got this done. Im glad you came back because you promised you would to talk about it. I look forward to you continuing to dial it up. Thank you very much. Good to have you back. Good to see you, my friend. Thats our show for tonight. Thanks for watching. And as always, keep the faith. For more information on todays show, visit tavis smiley at pbs. Org. Hi, im tavis smiley. Joining me next time for a conversation with felicity jones. Thats next time, see you then. 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