I work in mental health and Doug is SO fucking spot on with this. People seek out antidepressant therapy just to glorify the fact that life fucking sucks sometimes. "No, that's not it, I must be ill".

WOW, I think Doug has earned his spot on the list of legends of comedy.

I used to be really creative and have ambition and the daily grind would make me feel dead inside. My moods were all over the place. But my doctor gave me Seroquel and now I have no original thoughts any more. I've stopped creating anything, and now I want an accounting job. I'm not even being sarcastic, this shit legitimately switches my thoughts off completely. Anything I'm saying, I don't know where the fuck it comes from any more. It doesn't make me happy, it makes me indifferent which is good enough.

When I feel down he makes me laugh, when I'm up I avoid him like the plague. He's like the medicine that tastes really nasty and that's why it works on what's nasty inside you.

Buying shit you don't need c'mon, diamonds and fucking flowers an.. At least black people knew when they were slaves, You remain clueless - Doug Stanhope. Humorously contemplative ^^

Brilliant. So much encapsulated in so short a time. People will be able to watch Stanhope 100 years from now and really get what was going on. Thanks for posting this, even though it takes away from his DVD sales!

I'm glad he's here too.

It's what Bill Hicks would have wished to develop into if he had had a longer life. . Excellent for what it is.

"yur gonna die at the end.. anyone tell ya!" kapow

I transcribed this clip and translated it into my first language. I did it with passion, and for free.

is it just me or does he look like he always wants to take a drag on his cigarette but changes his mind at the last second... hehe. This guys the fuckin best. We need more people like this guy so I dont feel so alone in my life

This special is a comedy classic!

Hahah, the more shows I see from this guy, the more I love him.

love this bit. anyone else hear this coming out of only one speaker?

Doug Stanhope rocks. A worthy successor to the mighty Bill Hicks Ive got 7 of his albums and a couple of bootlegs. I was listening to 1 of them on my walkman on the bus, and i was pissing myself laughing out loud while people were staring at me.

So well said brutus! It's pretty awesome how Doug can say such spiritually wise things in his act and he's an athiest. I could care less he's the funniest comedian alive and he's so right on the money about this. Anti-depressants are the biggest drug pushers in the history of the world. We need wise speakers like Stanhope to help us realize these things and heal by LAUGHING MY ASS OFF!!!!!

Guys - thanks for your comments. I've decided to remove the comments of the brain donor guy, cause he's boring now. That means I've taken out your responses as well. Tell you what though - if you're a religious crusader why not come along to a show and start heckling... Doug gets the money, we all get a good laugh and you might even save the odd soul.

You got that right! So much easier to relax and focus on something, when you can eliminate the mental stress.

Trust me, I know... But what's the point of waking people up if there is nothing good to wake up to? I guess the best thing is to wake people up before they throw their life away at things like career, marriage and children. :)

I was kind of depressed at the state of the world, and my inability to comprehend what happens when I die. I was contemplating taking some sort of drug to stop these depressing thoughts from effecting me. Then I watched Doug Stanhope do stand-up for the first time, and realized there wasn't anything wrong with me really. I just had to stop being depressed.

His videos should all have millions of views

Gotta love honesty!

BEST!

classic - Got an ad for Scientology before a Doug Stanhope vid!!

truer words have never been spoken

I agree!

this , feel ya buddy.

Completely agree! Those guys are legends.

Agreed.

gotcha.

I love reading every single comment from 5 years ago on videos like this , which id say id agree with most of them however its always sad as i scroll back just to see how nothings changed since then and probably wont change 5 years after ive written this comment either. what he said is relevant, thought provoking, true, and very funny. but sadly like another youtube commenter said on one of his videos ''its just someones weekend entertainment.''

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thanks, I thought I just lost hearing in my left ear.

my right ear approves of this!

My same thoughts!

I'm seeing Doug at the Hammersmith Odeon this weekend, can't wait!

That is why I am doing the "excess in moderation" ever since I saw Doug's bit about it. And when I am 75 or somebody tells me that I starting to get senile I am snorting everything in sight and blowing my head off with a shotgun. I sure as hell am not going back to diapers.

When I feel depressed about life I just go and listen to Stanhope and I feel better. I know it sounds fucking gay but I had to say it.

@iChesus I know. I'm so grateful to have him.

To me he sounds like a true free market capitalist. "The long term goal of any civilized society should be complete unemployment."

Hail to the King Baby

smart

Now that Carlin and Hicks are gone I'm glad Doug Stanhope is around to carry on in their place (but he'll never replace them).

@smegmadiver22 Is it weird that Doug Stanhope actually makes me happy when I listen to him? :-X He's aweare of our plight, and he's helping these folks become aware too, so that makes me happy, :D

@mikeisapro Definitely Nietzsche as well. The first thing of his I ever read was On the Prejudices of Philosophers from Beyond Good & Evil. The wealth of insight in those few pages I found incredible. So in case you haven't read it already I would say wholeheartedly to read that puppy. Also, I would recommend Stirner's The Ego and Its Own if you're very interested in Nietzsche's analysis of subjugation of ego. But yeah, Nietzsche's great stuff.

@steviek198 Yeah, I've seen him too, but thanks for the recommendation anyway.

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Looks a little cloudy.....

@schadenfreudelolz22 such a insightful realization when the fact of the matter is that they only corrected a childlike mistake. Existence continues to be so utterly mysterious. Now we are all mindless/naive but there is a spectrum of course. Those that I see as the most thoughtful and original would be people like Schopenhauer, Spinoza, Hume, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Mann etc. They are the ones who humble me greatly. I know I can come off as arrogance myself which is what you detected but I try my

Man, this guy is brutal.

@sixthsensi It's an appeal to authority. It's what drives the corporations. Let it rot. It's time for them to all rot.

doug is the fuckin man...i've never heard his comedy before

Agree with tafkaleaf, doesn't make you lazy unless you let it. If you're already lazy it makes you more lazy, but that's because you haven't found something you enjoy. Because Cannabis makes you want to do stuff that is fun. That's what they're scared of, that people won't want to do boring shit anymore.

That's how you dismantle the government. There will be no revolution with weapons and war. They want that, in fact, that aids them because that gives them more profits and greater the reason for the governments to declare martial law. Non-compliance is the only thing that could dismantle the government in this age.

he could recomend the peace corp, or whatever it is called

@CelorElderOne You are correct. I agree. For true revolution read Summerhill by A.S. Neil

"blend in. conform. be like everyone else. join the herd." better the wolf than the sheep.

what i mean is, that I've listened to both of hick's biggest cds and on relentless he mostly just stood there and swore at the audience. There were some gems there though, like "I'm Buddha" "But ure bubba"

the sad truth

The Internet in general, yes that's a goodness... Farcebook & their ilk are a subversion, designed to distract and to harvest our data for a price, known well in advance, post 9/11, now we know better, trackers on every site, all our personal information sold on, it's a fire-sale of data and most of us are too self-absorbed to notice as they provide the narcissist the perfect walled-garden for us to play in, they have made us into technological lotus-eaters... oblivious and without ambition.

Well put sir. I guess my only answer available is: "+1". :)

Not only that... the discerning 'surfer' should also install 'Ghostery' wanna be another data-revenue-generation-unit for the advertisers? - firefox, adblock, ghostery... it's like surfing the internet before 2004, or at least before the social-networking zombies took over the web.

it's amazing that most of us sacrifice our own happiness for the will of corporations.

@smegmadiver22 good analogy for life, my friend.

somebody needs to say it, now whether anyone will do anything about it, after hicks, carlin, etcs death i doubted though

How to do that? I wanna do it too, in my first language. Please guide.

Breathing the air is unhealthy, drinking tap water is unhealthy, most of the foods we eat is unhealthy and putting a law on mother nature is insane!! We have let our technology evolve faster then us....and that's the most unhealthy thing we've let happen. peace, love and light to us all~~~ namaste~~~

I was turned onto pot, because I have insomnia. I took prescriptions to sleep, then became dependant to them. Prescription pills for pain and sleep disorders are opiates, which are a thousand times worse than pot. Why pot isn't legal is because pharmaceutical co.s CANNOT patent a natural drug, hence the chemical engineering. As far as rage is concerned, that has nothing to do with pot, that is that particular person. Legalizing pot would destroy the greedy petro chemical companies n thats good!

Can I add Jerry Sadowitz to that? Catch him while you can, neither of these r going to be around forever

@SpyronicBanjocoot Honestly, I'm getting to the point where I'm not scared, just curious. Not like, "Man, I can't wait to die!" More like at least then I'll know (or not know) what the deal is. Also, I feel like dying isn't the scary thing; it's the thought that nothing we do matters.

fucking awesome ! respekt.

he's funny and interesting because he does not think like most people, including me. i am secure enough with myself that it is not threatening, and surely does not make me want to be more like him, i just accept that he is different and i find that interesting.

I don't know of a funnier stand up comedian working today.

I can't believe it. There is a George Carlin/Bill Hicks hybrid out there? ALIVE? Holy shit! Awesome!!! Hail Doug Stanhope!

BEST COMMENT EVER.

@smegmadiver22 "slightly" haha

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@HalloFusilli BUT, Nietzsche doesn't "humble you greatly"? Yeah it's okay. He was just a great man.

Doug is a prophet - an absolute genius.

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They say you don't die from hard work. But why take the risk?

Thanks for the recommendation, I only ever knew of him from his music, I'll check him out.

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It would be nice, but oil has it's grimy lil mitts in everything. They destroy any innovation, or buy them up and control the patents, but I dig what your saying though.

Seconded

As I said, he gives the audience what they expect. He trims his apparent attitudes to fit the expectations of his audience. People go to see him be "politically incorrect", if he has any beliefs which don't fit he needs to change them to fit in with the expectations. Being reasonable is not an option, he has to appear unreasonable because reasonable doesn't sell tickets. You are right, I am full of myself, and I don't change my views to be popular or to make people laugh.

He keeps going to take a pull then thinks of something else to say.

hahaha fucking brilliant

@schadenfreudelolz22 best to be humble. I try my darnedest to only look to others for humility and never for flattery. Sorry for the wordiness but I only want to be clear.

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@morgan88will1 - Agreed.

Hmmmm. Depends for me. Like when I used to get high I'd be able to do maths which I really hate when not high. But I dunno about other boring shit where I don't use my brain at all. I'd probably just want to enjoy the high and not do it lol

To me, Stanhope's views sound a lot like mutualist anarchism. It's basically a form of market socialism. Community ownership of the means of production combined with a free market.

So glad i'm not on prozac anymore. Shit makes you an emotional boring zombie, then in the long run it makes it worse.

@gcmb3790 What language are you speaking?

I agree, but the phenomenon of social networking (I guess I mean the internet in general), could be used for good. Globalized information is the closest thing to the singularity theory our species has ever been. Although globalization is not a post-industrial phenomenon, the global awareness of it as a process is. We could run this ship. But I don´t think we will in our lifetime. Not as long as the web continuously get more monopolized and wasted by the years.... ...ah... fuck......

the only way to find out the truth about anything is through genius comedians like doug stanhope.

Indeed, well said... i also use tor at times if need be, but your right... advertising, the ruiner of everything good... i detest so called 'social-networking' Farcebook sold everyones i-souls on the stock-exchange while for years used our own friendships as bait and twitter's entire raison d'être is to sell your location-data while people tweet their banal racist pish they like to spew out, again using mortgaged-celebrities as bait... smart-phones? (so called) don't get me started ;)

nanotechnology :P