American stand-up Doug Stanhope has recently received a raised profile here in the UK thanks to his humourous misanthropic bitching on Charlie Brooker's Newswipe. Not all stand-up comedy is ...

Why does comedian Doug Stanhope live in the southern Arizona town of Bisbee? “It’s a small town without being redneck, and that’s very hard to find,” Stanhope said sitting on his couch during a recent ...

Amid the bounty of righteous comedic anger we’ve got headed our way of late, Doug Stanhope stands tall as perhaps the one radiating the most confrontational fury. Stanhope, like a latter-day Bill ...

It’s a rainy day in New York as Mike Birbiglia reflects on comedy. Since beginning a career in stand-up in his early 20s, the Boston-bred comedian certainly has come a long way, both professionally ...

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A while back, someone sent comedian Doug Stanhope a link to a video by a Nashville acoustic guitar-mandolin duo named Birdcloud. In it, two women sing just about the least acoustic guitar-mandolin-y ...

The Arizona-based comic prefers rock clubs over comedy clubs; Saturday night, he's back at the SLC joint he's played the last several times he's come through town, Bar Deluxe (666 S. State). This time ...

It was supposed to be a quiet night at Mr. Heads Bar, a quiet little bar overshadowed by Fourth Avenue's more bustling night clubs. But on Wednesday night — at the bar's little advertised weekly open ...

You may remember him from his aborted run for the 2008 Libertarian presidential nomination, from his fight-provoking confrontational 2004 Austin set when he followed the political bombast of Alex ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Lawyers for actress Amber Heard filed a defamation lawsuit against comedian Doug Stanhope on Friday after he wrote an article accusing her of blackmailing and manipulating her ...