TV.com

Saturday Night Live Season 15 Episode 20

Andrew Dice Clay/Spanic Boys & Julee Cruise

Watched It I've Watched This 0

Aired Saturday 11:30 PM May 12, 1990 on NBC

Next
Episode Previous
Episode

7.2

User Rating

10 votes

Your Rating: 10
Your Rating: 9.5
Your Rating: 9
Your Rating: 8.5
Your Rating: 8
Your Rating: 7.5
Your Rating: 7
Your Rating: 6.5
Your Rating: 6
Your Rating: 5.5
Your Rating: 5
Your Rating: 4.5
Your Rating: 4
Your Rating: 3.5
Your Rating: 3
Your Rating: 2.5
Your Rating: 2
Your Rating: 1.5
Your Rating: 1

Rate Now

EPISODE REVIEWS
By TV.com Users

Write A Review

Episode Summary

EDIT

Andrew Dice Clay/Spanic Boys & Julee Cruise

AIRED: 5/12/90

Live from New York, it's... Jon Lovitz! Sketches include "It's a Wonderful Dice," "Diceman Employment Agency," "Cooking With the Anal-Rententive Chef," "What's Sex?", "DJ Tony Trailer," "Jan Hooks Protest," "Cool Mite," "Ridiculous Bull," and "Kevin Nealon Protest." Spanic Boys perform "Keep On Walking." Julee Cruise performs "Falling."moreless

Who was the Episode MVP ?

Saturday Night Live Listings

Full Listings

Sunday

No results found.

Fan Episode Reviews (1)

The Diceman Cometh

6.5

By HelloStuart, Aug 06, 2005

It was safe to say that this episode had "disaster" written all over it. When it was announced that supposedly misogynistic comedian Andrew Dice Clay would host the penultimate episode of year fifteen, cast member Nora Dunn boycotted the show and scheduled musical guest Sinead O'Connor followed suit. The controversy made newspaper headlines, and the entire week was marred by heresy. Still, The Diceman was a decent host even if he was never invited again, though The Spanic Boys and torch singer Julee Cruise struggle to replace a pop phemomenon who would tear up a photo of the pope on this very show 2 1/2 years later.

And now, ladies and germs, a sketch-by-sketch recap:

COLD OPENING: The headlines are recreated: "Andrew Dice Clay To Host," one newspaper reads. "Nora Dunn Leaves Saturday Night Live," reads another. "Sinead O'Connor Objects To Clay, Joins Dunn In Protest," states the third headline. We now find Andrew "Dice" Clay standing on top of a bridge, mock-wishing he had never hosted. Along comes Mephistopheles, showing him that "It's a Wonderful Dice."

MONOLOGUE: Andrew Dice Clay addresses the controversy very maturely, though he loses points for calling Nora Dunn "a broad" before threatening some hecklers in the audience.

"Diceman Employment Agency": A look inside a NYC employment office as run by Mr. Clay. He offers one client (Kevin Nealon) a gig as a drug dealer's lookout, then turns a schoolteacher (Victoria Jackson) into a prostitute. At the end of the sketch, "TV Guide Cheers and Jeers" critiques the sketch for degrading women, then shows Hitler for some apparent reason. Okay sketch, but too much politically incorrect humor for my tastes.

"Cooking With The Anal-Retentive Chef": Our favorite obsessive-compulsive renaissance man is henpecked by his mother (Jan Hooks) while making a favorite dish. Obsessively preachy and compulsively unfunny.

MUSICAL PERFORMANCE: Making their network television debut, Wisconsin's very own The Spanic Boys perform "Keep On Walking." Apparently, they were an up-and-coming act in 1990, but they never reached their full potential. If you saw this goofy father and son perform, you'd understand why.

WEEKEND UPDATE: Dennis Miller jokes about the boycott, amongst other things. Meanwhile, Annoying Man (Lovitz) performs Beethoven's fifth with a fork on a chalkboard, and Michael J. Fox (David Spade) is interviewed via satellite.

"NBC Afterschool Special": A man (Clay) tries answer his son's tenacious query: "Dad, What's Sex?" As it turns out, the father has a very distorted and immature view of sex, as does a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood (Hartman). "Cheers and Jeers" returns to critique the sketch just before commercial break. By default, the best sketch of the night.

"WPLI Radio": DJ Tony Trailer (Nealon) won't shut up. Need I say more?

"Jan's Protest": Jan Hooks announces that she's protesting tonight's episode by phoning in her performace. Phil Hartman points out since she played a minor role in her two sketches tonight, nobody would've noticed anyway. I guess that would explain why "Anal-Retentive Chef" sucked.

"Cool Mite": Clay plays a ten-inch-tall hoodlum with an eye for the ladies. A silly premise wears thin easily.

MUSICAL PERFORMANCE: Julee Cruise performs "Falling." She's no Susannah McCorkle, but I guess she'll do.

"Ridiculous Bull": Jake LaMotta (Clay) asks his brother (Lovitz) to keep hitting him with kitchen appliances to show how tough (and stupid) he is. Kinda sorta funny.

"Kevin's Protest": Kevin Nealon announces he's protesting the show by appearing in no more than three sketches tonight. The joke is that he appeared in more sketches than anyone else in this episode. Funny, but Jan's protest was more than enough, thank you.

The next-to-last episode of year fifteen was, despite the bad press, a mixed bag. Nora Dunn would return to the cast for the season finale, but she was ostracized by her stressed-out castmates and left the show soon after. There was only one really funny sketch, though you could also count Weekend Update for preventing this episode to be the low point of SNL's renaissance cast. Moments and sketches that could be cut for syndication, if E! had the stones to air this episode: Spanic Boys, WPLI, and the two "protests." Give the cast credit though- they were dogged by a dissenter and a controversy, and they still put on a decent show.

Drop me a line anytime at sma17kc@netscape.net!moreless
DO YOU AGREE?
0 0

Flag
Share Hide

See All Fan Reviews

Cast & Crew: STARS

EDIT

Phil Hartman	Himself
Jon Lovitz	Himself
Jan Hooks	Herself
Victoria Jackson	Herself
Kevin Nealon	Himself
Dana Carvey	Himself

See All Cast & Crew

Cast & Crew: RECURRING AND GUESTS

EDIT

Andrew Dice Clay	Himself	Guest Star
Spanic Boys	Themselves	Guest Star
Julee Cruise	Herself	Guest Star

See All Cast & Crew

Watch Online

Trivia, Notes, Quotes and Allusions

FILTER BY TYPE

TRIVIA (1)
ADD TRIVIA
- This is the second of two episodes that were broadcast on a seven-second delay.
  EDIT SHARE
QUOTES (1)
ADD QUOTES
- Father: I don't know why those kids are laughing, because there is nothing more beautiful, more wholesome, or more natural then poontang.
  EDIT SHARE
NOTES (7)
ADD NOTES
- Though this broadcast appeared a handful of times when SNL repeats aired on Comedy Central, this episode was not included in the E! syndication package.
  EDIT SHARE
- Andrew Dice Clay was heckled during his monologue on the live show, so the dress rehearsal version is shown for reruns.
  EDIT SHARE
- The dress rehearsal version of "It's A Wonderful Dice" appears in the one-hour edit of this episode, whereas the live version appears in the ninety-minute reruns.
  EDIT SHARE
- Kyle MacLachlan was originally scheduled to host this episode, but he dropped out for unknown reasons. He will host the upcoming season premiere.
  EDIT SHARE
- Sinead O'Connor was booked for musical guest, but boycotted the episode because of Andrew Dice Clay.
  EDIT SHARE
- Nora Dunn does not appear in this episode, deciding instead to protest the host's derogatory jokes about women and refused to appear on the show. Nonetheless, her name does appear in the opening credits.
  EDIT SHARE
- For the third time in SNL's history the show is put on seven-second delay. The first two times were during the Richard Pryor and Sam Kinison shows.
  EDIT SHARE
ALLUSIONS (0)
ADD ALLUSIONS
- ADD ALLUSIONS from this episode.