In the essay “Human Clay” by Chuck Klosterman, he states that “the culture is coarsening” (Klosterman 93). Over time things that were not acceptable back then are now acceptable with the exceptions of mainstream rap music and stand-up comedy. He introduces 2 Live Crew who made very vulgar rap music and a crude stand-up comedian, Andrew Dice Clay Silverstein. The difference between them both was that, for some reason, 2 Live Crew’s music was accepted and tolerated while Clay’s stand-up comedy was not. So, that caused Klosterman to believe that even if Clay were to die he would not make a cultural comeback the reasons being himself, the era, and the type of audience he attracted.
Beginning with the fact that Clay was partially at fault for his unsuccessful career; he was not funny and there was no telling the difference between his person and persona. “He was generating a persona that seemed exactly like the person he actually was, but still arguing that the Real Andrew Clay Silverstein was somehow separate (and that he could always tell the difference, even when no one else could)” (Klosterman 96). At the …show more content…
There were also some audience members who took what Clay said personal thus bringing offense to themselves and other people. Klosterman admitted that “how you felt about Clay symbolized something about how you viewed the world” (Klosterman 98). All his jokes were aimed at specific topics and issues that mattered to him but also paralleled the same topics and issues that mattered to other more discriminatory peoples. For example, a piece of art could be taken as sexist just because there was no sign of sexism in it which would then cause it to be a problem for everyone. He was hated because of the fact that he did not sugar coat things and said them how they really
Beginning with the fact that Clay was partially at fault for his unsuccessful career; he was not funny and there was no telling the difference between his person and persona. “He was generating a persona that seemed exactly like the person he actually was, but still arguing that the Real Andrew Clay Silverstein was somehow separate (and that he could always tell the difference, even when no one else could)” (Klosterman 96). At the …show more content…
There were also some audience members who took what Clay said personal thus bringing offense to themselves and other people. Klosterman admitted that “how you felt about Clay symbolized something about how you viewed the world” (Klosterman 98). All his jokes were aimed at specific topics and issues that mattered to him but also paralleled the same topics and issues that mattered to other more discriminatory peoples. For example, a piece of art could be taken as sexist just because there was no sign of sexism in it which would then cause it to be a problem for everyone. He was hated because of the fact that he did not sugar coat things and said them how they really