Las Vegas Weekly

March 26, 2009 · 8:23 AM

Photo Gallery: The Diceman serves up cupcakes — and biting humor

By Robin Leach

Andrew Dice Clay at Sushi Samba's SugarCane Live! in the Palazzo.

Photo: Scott Harrison/Retna/www.harrisonphotos.com

Wickedly funny! Savagely brilliant! Andrew Dice Clay, the heavyweight bad boy of killer comedy, unleashed his four-letter-word tirade last night to a standing-room-only crowd in Sushi Samba's SugarCane Live! lounge at the Palazzo.

The Diceman spared no one, and the audience loved it! They applauded him. They cheered him. It was a triumphant return to the Strip after being booted from Donald Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice. In honor of his refusal to put cream on top of cupcakes on the NBC show, Sushi Samba owner Matt Johnson had 200 of them handed out to the first night, sellout audience.

Andrew’s material is an insightful commentary on life’s stupidities. Take away the filth, and he could be a humorous college professor lecturing on life’s insanities. Add the four-letter words, and they are the powerful punctuation of his assaults on every slice of society you care to name.

Everybody is an equal-opportunity victim of his insults. His description of Washington’s new order might well prompt a visit from the Secret Service -- because of the nonstop barrage of jokes. The Taliban also will be gunning for him with his description of their wives! Now I know why they all have towels on their heads! Pray your name isn’t Richard because he explains in lurid detail the hysterical how and why of that abbreviation. Since we are a family-friendly Web site, I can’t even begin to tell you his uses for cell phones, texting and Twittering!

Our contributing photographer Erik Kabik was out front and backstage for our platinum photo gallery, and Scott Harrison shot close-up photos for us, as well.

Yes, Andrew’s humor is dirty -- in fact, it doesn’t get any dirtier -- but it’ll leave you howling with tears. Diceman had the audience on its feet last night as he closed his 85-minute act with his well-known series of foul-mouthed nursery rhymes. He could’ve performed another 90 minutes and still had everybody roaring. Simply put, Diceman came, he conquered, and he was fantastic!

Andrew is the debut act of Sushi Samba’s SugarCane Live! in the lounge, and he performs there through April 4. Tickets are selling quickly as if a free bar of soap for his mouth is attached, and the advertising hasn’t even started. Matt says he’s getting other comedy headliners in place for the year, with Diceman returning at least three more times.

Robin Leach has been a journalist for more than 50 years and has spent the past decade giving readers the inside scoop on Las Vegas, the world’s premier platinum playground.

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