Seen him tonight and he's still hilarious, Doug is a great comic

@daveystod

Жыл бұрын

Seeing him in 4 days. I have no doubt he'll remain my all time favorite.

@sloppyjonuts9162

Жыл бұрын

Tremendous

@ilck-ym-blals7385

11 ай бұрын

Good to know he's not dead yet

@livewithmeterandnomeasureb1679

10 ай бұрын

Very nice dude too.

"yeah, just 'membered" classic. love him.

It gets hard to say Doug is wrong when every band’s first album is their best. They get rich and sober and work hard to make a polished album and it’s always worse…

@Banana_Split_Cream_Buns

6 ай бұрын

Except for The Beatles. However, they only proved your point as they did _more_ drugs as they went along.

@supagremlin3274

3 ай бұрын

Pet Sounds-The Beach Boys

Doug Stanhope is the best.

Ron white was that way he drank when he performed 🎭 made him funnier

There really is a difference when you're active vs "sober" ; you tend to lose your edge. The problem is Time + Gravity.

GOAT of the living, and he's headed for all-time.

Lmao just finding him now wow

I used to work as a musician in a jazz bar and... not just me. I'm pretty much a noob at jazz. But the sober people mostly sucked. They weren't bad musicians, their stage presence was just tense and weird and they were always alert and jumpy. The slightest sound could distract them and it's a fucking bar. It's sounds all over. They mess up, they get annoyed, it's a mess... And as for me - the more I got up there, the more anxiety, impostor syndrome and all sorts of bullshit started flooding in. Alcohol isn't the best way to deal with this, but it does help you calm the fuck down and do whatever it is you were going to do. It gives you that headspace that being among a lot of people doesn't allow. Stage fright is virtually non-existent when you're drunk and you allow yourself to have fun without feeling embarrassed about it.

My lesson from this is to not do drugs, but to enjoy the creative product of artists who needed a lot of drugs to produce their material.

@kevinlakeman5043

4 ай бұрын

No and yes

Learned 5 musical instruments speak 3 languages but I've never been diligent at anything else. My grandad was put in a Russian gulag as a kid my folks worked to 70 why should I work hard in these end times?

@user-og6hl6lv7p

Жыл бұрын

What else is there to do? Might as well pursue your own goals rather than fade out pathetically.

@mybackwasbroken9597

Ай бұрын

If you want to write music let me know

Fkin eh right!

The funniest bit at the beginning of this bit is cut off.

damn, i never shoulda quit smoking cigarettes

Man this shit fr

G.O.A.T

If you ever thought the alcohol marketing that beats you over the head on tv, radio, at ballgames, etc. didn’t really have any effect… Just realize how believable this routine is.

Just because you smoked and drank and did drugs doesn't mean you didn't work hard. Showing up is working hard.

@AutomaticDuck300

7 ай бұрын

I think he’s exaggerating for comedy effect. He might not have worked hard to get good material but he still worked on his performance skills by doing it.

@thesaneparty4079

7 ай бұрын

You're right about that, and I'm not ragging on him, just pointing out that he's contradicting himself within the bit, which adds to the comedy I think.@@AutomaticDuck300

@Banana_Split_Cream_Buns

6 ай бұрын

It all depends on what you think work is. I'm currently working on a fairly complex theory and most of the creative thoughts that I have needed for it come from either laying in bed, sitting on the toilet or having a shower. There's a work side to it too, including a lot of research and writing, but it never feels like work because I'm genuinely interested in what I'm doing. Work would be having to do some menial or hard task for the purpose of which, I do not know, other than to make some other guy rich. That's work and it sucks.

@kevinlakeman5043

4 ай бұрын

Nah, showing up is the least of it. And I'm pretty damn certain he's knows his life a weeee bit better than you do.

@thesaneparty4079

4 ай бұрын

Look at his itinerary. Airports and rental cars and Ubers and dive bars. Thats way harder than I've had to work and I'm loaded. He probably writes his own material also. @@kevinlakeman5043

Keep it up.

I don’t think he’s funny at all…

@stellviahohenheim

5 ай бұрын

nobody asked

@kevinlakeman5043

4 ай бұрын

thanks knob. now go back to your Jeff Dunham and Carrot Top.

@peterdixon7975

19 күн бұрын

Ironically Doug would approve of your individualistic stance on this.

@peterroberts9900

5 күн бұрын

@@stellviahohenheim nobody asked you either…hahahaha

Now he's so fried from years of drinking he's an incoherent, drunk, stuttering mess.

@kevinlakeman5043

4 ай бұрын

Wasn't when I saw him in Cincinnati his last time around. Perfectly coherent and damn funny. And how many comedians are as funny in their 50's as their 20's & 30's?

@deyoungstar

4 ай бұрын

​@@kevinlakeman5043 I feel many of the greats are/were funny from their 50s onwards. It's fine if you disagree. I think Stanhope easily could have been at George Carlin's level as he aged if he wasn't so hell-bent on self-destruction. This era of his comedy is superb

@Gxlto

Ай бұрын

​@@deyoungstar No one is on carlin's level. Carlin was methodical about his material and composed it like he was writing poetry. His exaggerations and expressions were always on point, and if you watch him tell the same joke twice at different times, it looks flawless with minor adjustments in delivery. Doug is slower, more messy, and sloppy in delivery, but he can deliver a good punchline after patiently building up the story. They're both great with observations and sarcasm but vastly different in articulation and presentation.

First time I’ve ever laughed at a stand up comic

@acidwizard6528

Жыл бұрын

First time I've ever replied to someone's comment about their first time laughing at a stand up comic.

@playbookshowme484

Жыл бұрын

@@acidwizard6528 my 1st time ever doing 2 1st timers at the same time.

@metasequoia3097

Жыл бұрын

@@acidwizard6528 no way 😮

@anonymousfella5473

11 ай бұрын

1st time i ever fealt genuinely bad for a person on KZread.

@afisemenaborevlaka48

6 ай бұрын

I haven't known laughter yet.