re: #513 Targetpractice

Not really surprised. He peaked back in the early 90s and hasn’t really ever regained the sort of fame he used to have. Hell, I think MTV lifted the ban on him last year more out of pity than anything else.

Sort of interesting to compare his career arc to Denis Leary’s. Roughly the same age, became “big” at roughly the same time (Leary a few years after Clay), but things seemed to diverge after that.

I have the impression that Leary didn’t have a defining persona beyond “angry comic” though whereas Clay was “Diceman”, which would be much harder to shake. (Not going to go into the claims that Leary ripped all his stuff off from Hicks.)