Doug Stanhope - Something to Take the Edge Off

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Free Music Review: Stanhope HE BURNETH!!!
Hit: 5 Stars

This guy is a comic genius, along with his Man Show (yeah, the show is ok- don't blame them, considering the constraints under which they have to operate- it's still damn diggetty) co-host Joe Rogan, those two may be the sickest most profane individuals working in stand up. And thank God for 'em. (As Stanhope says on this release, "This is stand-up comedy folks...it's a dead sport...")

Both revel in the awkward, tortured basenessof humanity and turn our collective cultural ills into comedic gold. If you are tired of the same old tame, Comedy Central stand-up (admittedly, they have to go with the PG-13, cuz they're cable) observationists with their piddling coyisms: Get this. It will burn the scales from your eyes, and lead you out of Plato's cave, laughing like a tard the whole time.

Less revolving around the stories of 'Sicko,' though Doug can still milk a yarn for every ounce of meaty sanguine flava, Doug's jokes and observations really come into their own on this one. I prefer his 'Die Laughing' the most, and a couple of bits from this (Suicide most obviously) are streamlined on Die Laughing. That's another plus: many comedians recycle bits like a mutha hubbard. Stanhope doesn't do that much at all, so each CD packs new whallop!

Also there is this guy, Henry Phillips, who accompanies Doug with acoustic guitar playing throughout the whole CD.... Worried? Well, It doesn't get in the way of the funnies. I thought that would really grate on me at first but at times it works well- during the freakshow bit he plays that little circus jingle... They play off each other nicely. Don't let the guitar disuade you.

At any rate- Buy Stanhope's CDs, buy Rogan's (one, C'mon duide the people are jonesing for a new one!!!!) CD, get old Pryor, get old Carlin, get some Bill Hicks, and check out Kinison's stuff starting with the oldest (GET LIVE FROM HELL ON VINYL OR CASSETTE!!!!) and moving forward up until Leader of the banned which you just want to avoid... They will give you mounds of great stuff to steal when you're sitting at a bar, trying to be the funny guy because you're lame and unoriginal and have no soul of your own with which to lure under-age gals- you be the veriest Aristotelian conception of slave- to wage, wife and whatever else... Ohh! I don't think amazon has it -but if you go to eatabullet dottie commie, you can get Jim Norton's CD 'Yellow Discipline.' Also great, also dark, also evil. Also HILARIOUS.

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