Doug Stanhope
- Stand-up comedian
Press clippings
Queen's funeral: comedy gigs cancelled
Central London gigs are most likely to be affected, in part because of the vast crowds descending on the capital.
Chortle, 15th September 2022Streaming with laughter: 50 best stand-up comedy shows
From Bill Hicks to Hannah Gadsby, Dave Chappelle to Josie Long - here are 50 specials you can watch right now.
Paul Fleckney, Harriet Gibsone, Ellen E Jones, Brian Logan and Graeme Virtue, The Guardian, 22nd February 2020Doug Stanhope to appear in Sick Of It
It has been confirmed that American comedian Doug Stanhope is to appear in the second series of the Karl Pilkington scripted tragi-comedy Sick of It.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 23rd November 2019Comedy review: Doug Stanhope
Too much of the material had the air of a comedian self-consciously trying to manufacture outrage.
Clive Davis, The Times, 13th June 2018Comedy review: Doug Stanhope
Doug Stanhope's an uncompromising light in the darkness.
Sharon Lougher, Metro, 12th June 2018Where stand-up and Alcoholics Anonymous meet
Late afternoon in a dark, intimate room in London and people are sharing their experiences of addiction. Alcohol, drugs, food, gambling, sex and love, their raw pain and degradation revealed to strangers. But there's laughter too.
Jay Richardson, i Newspaper, 11th June 2018Doug Stanhope at Brixton Academy review
The easily offended should, of course, stay away, as Stanhope is a one-man trigger warning.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 8th June 2018Doug Stanhope review
One of the sharpest minds and loosest cannons in comedy is back with material about rape, race and #MeToo.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 8th June 2018The world according to Doug Stanhope
Doug Stanhope, sayer of the unsayable, fundamentalist alcoholic, atheist misanthrope and quite possibly the funniest man on the planet, joins us today fresh from a quite monumental shit.
Mark Beaumont, NME, 7th June 2018Doug Stanhope review
Doug Stanhope comes onstage at the Cardiff Glee to little fanfare. With no support act or MC, the crowd is cold, but he seems to enjoy that. It's a Monday night and it feels like one.
Neil Green, Short Com, 6th June 2018