I'm a week behind, but man, Tom's apologia for Andrew Dice Clay is so good. I've always enjoyed Dice -- ironically, "ronically," sneeringly -- but Tom perfectly encapsulates why Dice is now actually, kinda-sorta-maybe a... comic genius.
Distantly, Tom's Dice talk reminds me of the alt-comedy world's wholesale re-appraisal, embrace, and ultimate canonization of Weird Al over these last dozen years. Not sure if Dice will ever get there, but at the end of the day, he has - and does - make me laugh.