7 Comedians Who Completely Botched Their Transition to Film

6. Andrew Dice Clay

Andrew "Dice" Clay certainly has, if nothing else, a strong sense of character. Though he dresses like James Dean (if James Dean had signed a contract to perform nightly in Las Vegas), Dice is the complete opposite of the Rebel Without A Cause star: Unforgivingly brash, overtly misogynistic, and far too interested in his own penis. A supposedly self-aware caricature of the New Jersey bad boy archetype, Dice enjoyed trampling all over the lines that separated "edgy" from "offensive." But could a comedian with such singular viewpoint, that of the proudly tactless windbag, translate his one-note act to film? The answer, in short: No. Owen Glieberman of Entertainment Weekly aptly described The Dice Man's big screen debut, The Adventures Of Ford Fairlane, as "a monotonous and overblown movie, a dithering hodgepodge of action, satire, and vintage Clay one-liners about anatomical functions." It was, thankfully, his first and last leading man role.
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