| Dice Rules | ||||
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| Released | 1991 | |||
| Recorded | February 21–22, 1990 and October 25, 1990 | |||
| Venue | Madison Square Garden (tracks 1–20) Rascals Comedy Club, New Jersey (tracks 21–39) | |||
| Genre | Comedy | |||
| Length | 54:37 | |||
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Dice Rules is a comedy double album by American comedian Andrew Dice Clay, released in 1991. It was released on record producer Rick Rubin's record label Def American and subsequently re-issued on Warner Bros. Records.
The first side (tracks 1–20) was recorded at Madison Square Garden with the second side (tracks 21–39) being recorded in a smaller, more intimate club setting (Rascals Comedy Club in New Jersey). The closing track, "Brooklyn Bad Boy", is an original song by Clay which was also heard during the end credits of the Dice Rules film. [1]
It was also a film of the same name which came out in May 1991, [2] [3] which received mostly negative reviews from critics [4] [5] and was nominated for three Razzie Awards including Worst Picture, Worst Actor (Andrew Dice Clay) and Worst Screenplay. The film holds a 7% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on reviews from fourteen critics. [6]
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