Two of America’s boundary-pushing comics have announced that they’re going on tour together. In an interview with Fox News , Andrew Dice Clay said that he and Roseanne Barr are headed out on the road for the “Mr. and Mrs. America” tour, inspired by the current political climate as well as what some see as the policing of comedians’ jokes.
In 1990, two of the biggest names in comedy were Andrew Dice Clay and Roseanne Barr.
Of course, Roseanne’s success as a standup comedian earner her her beloved eponymous sitcom on ABC, which was one few at the time showing struggles common to lower-middle class families while still managing to deliver the laughs.
Meanwhile, Clay broke through from the stage to the screen with ‘The Adventures of Ford Fairlane’ in 1990.
The edgy comic had been banned for life from MTV because of his material, and the movie earned Clay a Razzie for Worst Actor, but he still became a household name and was the first comedian to sell out Madison Square Garden.
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Almost 30 years later, the pair are uniting for a comedy tour that you can expect to not pull punches.
Clay and Barr have been friends for a long time, Clay says. “She’s a comic because she’s wacky. I’ve known her since we were kids. When people ask about what she said, I say, ‘She’s a comic!’ We got to stop policing comedians. This is America!”
Barr, of course, was at the center of a media firestorm following a Twitter controversy.
Her Roseanne reboot was canceled by ABC after she compared former President Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett to both Planet of the Apes and the Muslim Brotherhood, a remark she later blamed on Ambien. ABC chose to spinoff the show into The Connors and kill off Barr’s character.
As someone whose words have caused waves in the past, Clay thinks America needs to “lighten up.”
“America really needs to lighten up and not worry about the words comedians use because it’s all we have. There’s clean stuff and there’s street stuff. I’m a street guy because I tell it like it is,” he said. “I’m living it more now than I have for a really long time. My shows have been longer, my material is fresher. With these shows, I can do as long as I want because it’s one show a night.”
In March, Clay and Barr performed together at the Laugh Factory in Las Vegas.
It was her first live performance since ABC fired her.
“She’s an original I’m an original and people should just stop reading Twitter,” Clay said of Barr. “Calm down with your political conversations. Whoever is running the country, nobody else’s life changes. We still gotta go out there and make a living.”
The “Mr. And Mrs. America” tour is slated to start in Long Island in September.
“We’re both excited because we both don’t give a s—t what anybody thinks about anything,” Clay said. “I decided not to run for president because it would be embarrassing for everybody else losing. It would be too easy.”
h/t Fox News
