Outspoken American comedian Doug Stanhope is coming to the UK in June.
Stanhope has been drunkenly stumbling down the back roads and dark alleys of stand-up comedy for over a quarter of a century, roads laden with dank bars, prostitutes, cheap drugs, farm animals, evil dwarfs, public nudity, menacing third-world police, psychotic breaks, sex offenders, and some understandable suicides. With material ranging from true-life graphic perversion to volatile social criticism, Doug is vulgar, opinionated, brutally honest, shockingly uninhibited, and certainly not for everybody.
Well known amongst A-listers, he is no stranger to the likes of Johnny Depp who wrote the forward in Stanhope’s book entitled Digging up Mother, A Love Story as well as arousing admiration and absolute fear from US comedian Chris Rock. His second book This Is Not Fame - 'From What I Re-Memoir' (2017) is by no means a story of overcoming a life of excess, immorality, and reckless buffoonery. It's an outright celebration of it….and for Stanhope, the party goes on.
Doug has built a wide-ranging television resume of dubious achievement. He hosted The Man Show on Comedy Central as well as the ubiquitous pseudo-porn for the sexually crippled, Girls Gone Wild, both solely and shamelessly for financial gain. He has appeared on The Howard Stern Show, Comedy Central Presents, Floor Show Live and has even popped up on The Jerry Springer Show. In 2010, he was the Voice of America on the BBC’s Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe.
The Doug Stanhope Podcast features discussions with interesting individuals he meets on the road and at home in Bisbee, Arizona and he’s also released 2 comedy specials No Place Like Home (2016) and Popov Vodka (2017).
He is a two-time winner of Time Out New York’s Best Comedy Performance of the Year. He has appeared at multiple major comedy festivals including Montreal's Just For Laughs, Aspen US Comedy Arts, Chicago Comedy Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe, where he won the Strathmore Press Award for Best Act of the Fringe in his debut year.
All dates below.
Sun 3rd June – Just The Tonic, Nottingham
Thurs 7th June – O2 Academy Brixton, London
Fri 8th June – O2 Academy, Glasgow
Sun 10th June – O2 Academy, Newcastle
Mon 11th June – O2 Academy, Leeds
Tues 12th June – O2 Academy, Birmingham
Fri 15th June – Manchester Academy
Sat 16th June – Eventim Apollo, London
Sun 17th June – Bath Pavilion
Buy tickets here except for the Apollo - buy tickets for that here.
Picture: Brian Hennigan
