Comedians have long been a lightning rod for society, drawing down the dangers and grounding them. But they bring insight and an attitude to them. They help us see how we regard them. They provide a form of therapy, of comic relief. Strutting and sneering, lacking the graceful timing of the great stand-up talents, reciting his words woodenly, he creates a portrait of the comedian as sociopath.
Crowds can be frightening.
They have a way of impressing the low, base taste upon their members. Watching the way thousands of people in his audience could not think for themselves, could not find the courage to allow their ordinary feelings of decency and taste to prevail, I understood better how demagogues are possible. Dice Rules Zero stars Seven Arts presents a concert film featuring Andrew Dice Clay. Directed by Jay Dubin. Produced by Fred Silverstein.