Doug Stanhope review " scabrously funny, brutally unsentimental by Brian Logan

Brixton Academy, LondonThe US standup likes to shock, but not just for the sake of it: he does it because conventional wisdom needs questioningAt one point in his new touring set, the Arizona standup Doug Stanhope " routinely described as one of the world's best, if blackest, comics " complains that tabloid outrage, and the increased fame that might come with it, eludes him. That's not for want of trying, to judge by…

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