Exclusive: Eagle interview with Andrew Dice Clay
Brooklyn-Born Comedian to Return to Borough with Coney Performance
Comedian Andrew Dice Clay has played some huge, high-profile venues in his time, such as Madison Square Garden. But he is especially proud of the fact that on Saturday, July 30, he will be performing at the newly opened Ford Amphitheater at the Coney Island Boardwalk.
“Brooklyn is really coming up,” he told the Eagle. “First you had MCU Park, where the Cyclones play, then Barclays Center, and now this Coney Island arena. And many neighborhoods where I wouldn’t have even gone to years ago, like Williamsburg, have been revived. It’s great.”
Clay, whose original name is Andrew Clay Silverstein, is no stranger to the borough—he grew up in Sheepshead Bay and went to Madison High School. Many of the people he grew up with, he says, have moved away to Long Island or Staten Island, but “I still have dear friends and family in Brooklyn.”