re: #514 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste

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.)

Why not (Leary-Hicks, I mean?) It was fairly obvious, and fairly common knowledge on the circuit, etc., back in the early 1990s. In fairness, he wasn’t solely dependent on that and has developed since — it’s unfair to say his entire act was a Hicks rip-off. Just the persona and a large chunk of the early routines.