Drinking, drugs, fighting and fucking.
Sounds like any good Friday night, but when you throw in comedy, you render a five part recipe for one of America's most notorious and revered comics - Doug Stanhope.
Stanhope's in your face style and social commentary is unmistakable. His cult following is almost as zealous as the most brainwashed Southern Baptist. But really, what else can you say about Doug Stanhope, he just is. He's a state of mind.
His material ranges from true-life graphic perversion to volatile social criticism. Doug is vulgar, opinionated, brutally honest and shockingly uninhibited and is certainly not for everybody. You might want to stay home if you are pregnant, nursing, or prone to heart conditions. Ask your doctor first, before trying Doug Stanhope.
Doug has built a wide-ranging television resume of dubious achievement. He hosted The Man Show on Comedy Central as well as the ubiquitous pseudo-porn for the sexually crippled, "Girls Gone Wild", both solely and shamelessly for financial gain. He has appeared on "The Howard Stern Show", "Comedy Central Presents", "Premium Blend", NBC's "Late Friday", "Spy TV" BBC's "Floor Show Live" while on ecstasy and wrote, produced and starred in Fox's "Invasion of the Hidden Cameras" and has even popped up on "Fox News with Greta Van Sustern" and "The Jerry Springer Show". But none of it compares to seeing him live.
Luckily for Memphis, with a reputation and history as he has, Stanhope is yet again gracing the stage of Hi-Tone for the night of August 7th. Come out to see one of the finest living mythical stand up comics of our generation before he drinks himself to oblivion.
Tickets available at Brown Paper Tickets.com or at the Hi Tone Cafe Website.
Doug Stanhope
The Hi Tone
9:00 pm
1913 Poplar Ave
Memphis, TN 38104
$19 (or $19 + $2 service fee)
