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Douglas Gene "Doug" Stanhope (born March 25, 1967) is an American stand-up comedian, actor and author known for his cynical, controversial comedy style and libertarian political views. ==Life and career== Stanhope has made numerous appearances at several major comedy festivals, including the Montreal Just For Laughs, US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado, the Chicago Comedy Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe where he won the Strathmore Press Award in 2002.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2002/08/22/1623/stanhope_is_critics_choice )〕 Stanhope was the winner of the 1995 San Francisco International Comedy Competition where he edged out Dane Cook in a three-week contest. Stanhope had his own prank show on Fox called ''Invasion of Hidden Cameras'' in 2002. He also was one of the pranksters on ''Spy TV''. In 2003 and 2004, Stanhope co-hosted the fifth and sixth seasons of ''The Man Show'' with Joe Rogan. He hosted his own radio show on SIRIUS Satellite Radio in 2005. That year, Stanhope hosted ''Girls Gone Wild: America Uncovered''. When asked what it was like working with ''Girls Gone Wild'' creator Joe Francis, Stanhope admitted "He's pure, unadulterated evil",〔"(Q&A with Doug Stanhope )", ''The Courier Journal'', March 8, 2009.〕 and "The most awful human being I've ever met in all of my time in the entertainment business."〔(Doug Stanhope Trashes 'Girls Gone Wild' Joe Francis! Pt. 1" ), youtube.com; accessed November 29, 2015.〕 Stanhope established a group of touring comics known as "The Unbookables" featuring such artists as Andy Andrist, James Inman and Brendon Walsh, among others. The Unbookables' first CD, ''Morbid Obscenity'', also featuring Andrist, Rouse, Lynn Shawcroft, and Banjo Randy, released July 4, 2006, on Stand Up! Records. He appeared in the film ''The Aristocrats'', telling a caustic joke to a baby. He was the subject of an 8-page feature in ''British GQ'' under the title "Is This America's Most Depraved Man?" by Robert Chalmers in 2006. In summer 2006, he was booked to appear on several bills at the ''Cat Laughs Comedy Festival'' in Kilkenny, Ireland; his extended bit saying that Irish men commit pedophilia because of the ugliness of Irish women earned a hostile reaction from the crowd, the press, and the festival organizers. He appeared alongside Rouse at the Festival Fringe in Edinburgh on August 2006 to 5-star reviews from the press. On his opening night he took what was believed to be an ecstasy tablet that was handed to him by a member of the audience.〔"("It'll Blow Your Mind" ), ''The Sunday Times'', August 20, 2006; retrieved September 5, 2006.〕〔("Boozy and Brilliant" ), ''The Independent'', August 11, 2006; retrieved September 5, 2006.〕 During his Edinburgh performance he included a segment that some regarded as anti-Semitic.〔Malvern, Jack. ("Edinburgh learns that jokes about Jews are no laughing matter" ), timesonline.co.uk, August 15, 2006.〕 He responded in his 2007 Showtime special, ''No Refunds'', by elaborating on the incident. He self-published ''Fun with Pedophiles: The Best of Baiting'' in October 2006, which includes several instances of his setting up a false Internet instant-messaging persona to offer sex, and then verbally abusing the "baitee" in a chat session that is logged to share with others. He discussed his self-published book and the philosophy behind it on Penn Jillette's radio show on San Diego's 97.1 FreeFM on November 22, 2006. In 2007, Stanhope made two TV specialsone in the US for Showtime, recorded at The Gotham Comedy Club in New York City on March 12; and one for the UK's Channel 4 ''Comedy Lab'', filmed at the Caves in Edinburgh, Scotland titled "Doug Stanhope: Go Home". The Showtime special, titled ''No Refunds'', premiered August 3 and was released on DVD August 14. His live show was voted "Best Comedy Performance of the Year" by ''Time Out New York'' for both 2006 and 2008. His live show was placed in the top 5 of the ''20 Best Live Shows of 2009'' by London's ''The Guardian'' newspaper. Stanhope's 7th album, ''From Across The Street'', was released on November 24, 2009. In 2010, Stanhope aired a series of vignettes during ''Newswipe with Charlie Brooker'' in the UK. In 2013 he did the same during "Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe". On November 17, 2010, Stanhope signed to rock and metal label Roadrunner Records to launch their new comedy label, Roadrunner Comedy. On May 3, 2011, the album was released: ''Oslo: Burning The Bridge To Nowhere''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Doug Stanhope To Release Roadrunner Records Comedy Debut! )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Doug Stanhope To Release ''Oslo: Burning The Bridge To Nowhere'' in May )〕 In cooperation with the mayor of Reykjavík, comedian Jón Gnarr, Stanhope scheduled a performance in Iceland's only maximum security prison, Litla-Hraun, for September 25, 2011. Fans who wanted to watch the show would have to commit a crime; for them he invented the 'Stanhope defense'. He appeared on the FX television show ''Louie'' as Eddie, a fictional comedian that Louis C.K. knew 20 years earlier when they first started performing, in the season 2 episode entitled "Eddie," first aired on August 11, 2011. He had a supporting role in the 2014 Chris Rock film ''Top Five'', playing a police officer.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=National comedian Stanhope sneaks into Tucson )〕 On February 16, 2013, Stanhope debuted his eponymous podcast, recorded out of his home in Bisbee, Arizona. In 2014, his podcast was hosted by the All Things Comedy network. Stanhope is a vocal, outspoken critic of Dr. Drew Pinsky, calling him "the Joseph Goebbels propaganda minister of lies" because of Pinsky's views on drug addiction and drug abuse, and stated on his standup album "Before Turning The Gun On Himself" that Pinsky would "step over a dozen dying winos in the street to get to Lindsay Lohan's bedside" because of Pinsky's claim that he is a "celebrity rehab expert". On August 24, his new special, ''Beer Hall Putsch'', was released exclusively to Netflix. The special was made available on CD on September 17, 2013, with a DVD set for November 26, 2013. On May 5, 2014, Stanhope announced on the ''Howard Stern Show'' that he was working with Johnny Depp on a show. According to Stanhope, Depp befriended him in Europe and had an unknown project in mind for Stanhope.〔(YouTube ); retrieved May 13, 2015.〕 Doug appeared on ''Bar Rescue'' as Jon Taffer's guest to watch the recon of the Pomona bar Friar Tucks. In May 2015, he announced that he is writing a book about his life with his mother, an occasional subject in his comedy.〔("I'm writing a book" ), dougstanhope.com, May 16, 2015.〕 In 2008, Stanhope's 63-year-old mother Bonnie, who suffered from emphysema, killed herself with a heavy cocktail of Black Russians and prescription morphine. Stanhope was present at her death.〔(Stanhope tells how he saved a man from jumping off Edinburgh bridge and discusses the death of his own emphysema-stricken mother, who killed herself ), heraldscotland.com; accessed October 3, 2015.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Doug Stanhope」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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