Doug Stanhope


Doug Stanhope

We are thrilled to have Doug Stanhope on the Reading and Leeds bill as he is the comic’s comic who has inspired and influenced many a young stand up. His material ranges from the true-life graphic perversion to volatile social criticism. Doug is vulgar, opinionated, brutally harsh and shockingly uninhibited. Doug's confrontational stance comes from the rough, blistered underbelly of America's trailer parks; he's a feral, aggressive man fuelled by primal urges to drink, fight and screw - and the corrosive material has all the venomous aggression you might expect from that background. 

But what underlines it, and makes it so untouchably good, is the passion and conviction with which he holds his intelligent beliefs, informed by sensibilities that might seem alien to such a no nonsense, pig-headed persona...Doug has appeared on a wide range of TV shows both here and in America as well as having released three CD's and DVD's the latest of
which ' No Refunds' was in 2008.


Photo credit: Chris Saunders

Stage info

Stage time: 16:35

Alternative Stage
Saturday 29th August, 2009
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