Doug Stanhope
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535 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Jun 2024
last heard Feb 2025
Doug Stanhope’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Startup Ideas Podcast · 4 microSaaS ideas you can build to make $100k/month · 3 Feb 2025
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That's an insane show. We co-headlined when it was really shitty clubs, basically one-nighters, so you wouldn't even... It's hard to call it headlining, but yeah.
No, the first time I saw him was at a club called Knuckleheads in the Mall of America, Minneapolis, and... Lewis Johnson was the headliner. I was the middle act, and Hedberg was opening. And Lewis had seen him, and he goes, man, you got to watch this guy. This guy is fucking. And the first night, he did pretty good. But the rest of the week, he's just fucking. Because he has no MC skills.
He doesn't come out and say, are there any birthdays? Yeah. He's following da, da, da, da, da, da, da. Y'all ready for this? Da, da, da. And there's a laser light show for a club of 350, even though there's 18 people in it. They still have the volume up like it's a sold out Saturday. Come on, you can do better than that. No, they're doing their best. Yeah, right.
18 of them, and they're not even sat in the same areas.
No, and he was new, but it was still, as Hedberg, not quite as polished, but still you saw everything that you're fucking going to love in the future. So it was great to watch him morph very quickly into fucking great.
That was right before he fucking died. Wow, you can look at him. Pale. Were you worried? That was two weeks before he died because we did, ended up, I got booked with him to open for him at a college show in Maryland, which I was like, all right, by now people know I'm not college material. This does not happen. So I assumed he asked for me.
Because when you guys both headline, you stop seeing each other. Yes. And it sucks. That's why we do this. So I assumed he had asked me to do it, and then when the kid that booked it, who probably got fired immediately for having me on the stage, we're driving back to the hotel, and I told Mitch, I said, hey, thanks for setting this up, because college gigs pay a ton of money.
And I needed it back then, and he said... I don't know. And the kid driver said, no, you guys are my two favorite comedians. Whoa. I did this. I'm like, oh, fuck. All right. Hey. So we went back and we did, that's got to be the green room. But we went back and we're doing 2005. Wow.
Yeah, Terry Taylor, I think is his name. Yes, that was it. That's when Hedberg was just starting to peak, and he was selling a lot of tickets, but he was not a negotiator. And that guy from Giggles would sell all these VIP things and overcharge people. Everything, if he ran it past Hedberg, Hedberg would go, no fucking way. You can't overcharge people.
When I first heard Hannibal, I'm like, oh, Hedberg just stole from Black Pete. My mom loves those applause breaks. That's one of my favorite drunk pastimes if I ever get to drink with comics or doing a tell or a Hedberg and you just sit around the table and everyone's fucking throwing out their favorite fucking one-liners. Yeah. And Hedberg was kind of a household name if you were into stand-up.
Sure. You were definitely, back then before it really kicked off, before social media really kicked off.
And he would entertain people who would throw out jokes, like towards the end of the show. Oh, wow. Like, do the thing. And he would, all right, I'll do the koala bear bit. Man, you guys are very demanding of my time. But I'll do this for you. Damn. He really enjoyed doing it. And he enjoyed fucking drugs, too. He loved heroin. I've heard. Comedy.
He was great at both of them.
Yeah.
Try to compete in the marketplace in Austin. I know. But they said- When you have a fucking barn for a room. Oh God, I hated that room. It was a big room. Some of the best times, but just the height of the ceiling. Yes.
Yeah, the trash, the condo guy. Yes. I went on Bill Burr's podcast once, which I felt awful doing because I would listen to Bill Burr on the road back then. for a while until I started getting mannerisms, and I gotta stop listening to this, and ladies, and I'm like, stop. It's in my head. But I did his podcast, and I apologized up front, because I hate it when you have a guest.
I just want to hear you, Bill. So I apologize to your listeners for being here because they would fucking hate me for being on your show. But he was telling me that I was like the John Fox guy, like the guy that fucking sticks his dick in the mayonnaise jar at the condo. I'm like, I'm that guy now? Because before it used to be, who was that, Ollie Joe Prater? Oh, wow.
Wow, I haven't heard that name in years.
Yeah, and I worked with John Fox once and made the mistake of confusing an Ollie Joe Prater legendary story as him. And he's like, that's not me. John Fox was the most absolute fuck up, just awful, like repeating his joke several times in a set because he's so fucked up. But he was funny. Ollie Joe had the one I confused was where his nose started to bleed during the show from too much cocaine.
Yeah. Holy shit. And it's pouring down his face, but he doesn't realize, and the audience is aghast. And at some point, it's all on his shirt. He goes... Oh, what, nobody parties anymore?
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