Doug Stanhope

Doug Stanhope

Doug Stanhope is an American stand-up comedian from Worcester, United States, born in 1967. He begins his career in 1990 in Las Vegas, Nevada, and works in stand-up comedy with a style that combines nihilism, dark personal material and social criticism.

Career

Stanhope hosts the final two seasons of Comedy Central’s The Man Show and appears on ABC’s The View. He also produces and stars in Invasion of the Hidden Cameras, a project for Fox Broadcasting.

He releases several CDs and performs at major comedy festivals, including Just for Laughs in Montreal, the US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, the Chicago Comedy Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland.

Awards and recognition

Stanhope wins the San Francisco Comedy Competition and receives the Strathmore Press Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2002.

Style and themes

His material reflects a self-described libertarian and agnostic outlook, and often focuses on drug use, sexual behaviour, personal stories and attacks on puritanism and superstition. His performances also address American civil liberties. He is frequently compared with Bill Hicks because of this confrontational style.

Other associations

Stanhope is associated with The Unbookables.