This is all to say that I had no clue that Doug Stanhope quietly released his latest stand-up special, Discount Meat, for free on YouTube on December 31, 2024. Having just come out of a digital ...
Stanhope says he was living off fraud telemarketing and the kindness of strippers in Las Vegas, when he first ventured onto the stage of an open mic comedy night at a seedy bar called the Escape ...
Doug Stanhope’s manager tells The List ‘that ... Like his chain-smoking comedy forefather Bill Hicks, the American stand-up’s routine is normally caustic, political, and heavily drunken.
I wanna go for a picnic, but I wanna picnic angry.’ In the UK in the 1980s, alternative comedy thrived in opposition to Thatcher; in the 00s, Bush became a key part of many comedians’ routines.