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List Price: $11.98 | | Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Salesrank: 250118
Released: November 16, 1993 |
| Our Price: $29.95 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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The Day the Laughter Died, Pt. 2 Track Listing:
1. 'Tis the Season [A Conceptual Piece]
2. Thermometers
3. Gas (Feminine)
4. Deef & Dumb
5. Notes
6. Sound
7. Wedding
8. Critics
9. Pink Dot
10. My First Concert
11. Chinese
12. More Notes
13. Dr. Dice
14. Rice
15. Film & Video
16. Bachlorette Party
17. Tom & The Philippino
18. Wife Tells All
19. Surprise
20. Games
21. Talk to 'Em
22. Chinks
23. Mad Max
24. Sealed With a Kiss
25. Contractor
26. Songs
27. Chinese Restaurant
28. Greeting Cards
29. No Poems
30. Argument
The Day the Laughter Died, Pt. 2 Reviews:
All of a sudden no one knows c*nt farts 
2009-04-24 - Simply the greatest comedy album ever. The Day The Laughter Died Part Two is filthy, bizarre, and relentless. This album isn't for people who want to hear what Dice was doing at Madison Square Garden. With a stunned crowd that is to shocked to understand the angle Dice has taken he is start to finish on point with his anger and his rants. Dices anger is comedic genies as he blows minute issues such as butter that has yet to melt, critics that may or may not have bashed him, and an audience members tie that should only be worn in order to commit suicide. Though his fame had subsided his ability as a comic was at a true pinnacle. Dice managed to borrow from comics to reach his highest heights but discovered a completely original voice when the public eye was no longer watching. This isn't about laughter.
The Scarface of comedy albums.
2009-04-02 - This 1993 release came on the heels of Clay's fall from the top of the mountain. Everyone was sick of the Dice Man, including the Dice Man himself. It's a must-listen not because it's a piece of genius, but because it's a snapshot of abject pain and frustration. If you've ever wondered what it would be like to witness that urban legend, the commuter shoved in front of the subway train and twisted half-above and half-below the platform, waiting to die, then this is the album for you.
Recorded in front of what sounds like 15 (MAYBE 20?) people, this recording is a slice of those nights we all knew too well, when nothing was working and nothing was going to, no matter how badly we needed it. Over the course of an hour, Clay begins as the cocky Dice-Man and crumbles into a belligerent road comic who's shooting stage time like it was heroin and taking comedic swings into the air like a leather-clad Cool Hand Luke, grasping desperately for the fame he had so recently lost.
I recommend this album not because I want to make fun of the guy, but because I really feel for the man. The poignant moments aren't the shouts and exclamations, they're the moments (and stretches) of silence. So, so many of them.
It's a reminder of those nights when it was more important to be on stage and in front of people than it was to actually be funny.
Only true comedy fans will dig this release. The people who know, tragedy is the best comedy of all.
Genius
2009-03-09 - This was Dice raw. Think of Dice on stage with his thoughts being uncensored and traveling straight to the microphone. You have to listen to this a couple of times to understand what he is doing. He is not intent on getting lame belly laughs from a half dead crowd. He enters a new dimension here. This is not the normal Dice gig. But for those of us who really enjoy comedy and have an open mind it's pure genius. I listen to this and Pt 1 more than any other Dice cd now. Too bad it's OOP.
4 When you're Hating the World 
2008-06-17 - It's raw, attack the audience, evil mischief. Delicious if you've just had enough of people, yuppies in particular....who wear sweaters. Just take a look at the picture of Clay on the cover. It somehow seems to explain what happened in this one here. Crude, Rude, very Angry. This is the opposite end of the spectrum from Cosby, Seinfeld, Blue Collar, etc.
Comedy is NOT the issue here!!!!
2006-08-09 - Dice Clay's "The Day The Laughter Died, Part Deux" is exactly what its title implies...Dice continuing his venture in, let's say, ANTI-COMEDY as he did previously on "...Laughter Died, Pt. One." Here, Dice dosen't at all appear interested in spilling out jokes, anecdotes, impersonations, or even comical stories...Instead, he reaches back & delivers full-on performance art! Its almost as if he's determined NOT to be comical, but, rather, to toy with his small audience and see who he can agitate...kinda like an older brother who keeps chippin' away at his sibling until it erupts into pure frustration!! It's a gutsy move for a "comedian" sliding down the other side of the mountain after he's peaked so high. A portrait of a comedian who clearly doesn't care & is content to just go for broke! Ya hear...!?!?
