Controversial (and, in many cases, extremely loathed) comedic alter ego of actor Andrew Clay Silverstein. Extremely popular at the turn of the 1980s for his Mother Goose nursery rhymes, Andrew "Dice" Clay was a persona built upon misogyny, homophobia and Italian macho stereotypes that shocked middle class America. The routine was all proclaimed to be nothing more than an act(similar to Larry the Cable Guy or Andy Kaufman's Tony Clifton) by Andrew Clay when he dropped the "Diceman" alter ego around 2000, but he found little success outside his Dice character and returned to the comedy circuit for the new millenium. He was ranked the 95th best comedian of all-time by Comedy Central.