To view prices and purchase online, please login or create an account now.



This Is Not Fame: A 'From What I Re-Memoir'

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title This Is Not Fame: A 'From What I Re-Memoir'
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Dr. Drew Pinsky
By (author) Doug Stanhope
By (author) Dr. Drew Pinsky
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:352
Dimensions(mm): Height 208,Width 140
Category/GenreIndividual actors and performers
Memoirs
Humour
ISBN/Barcode 9780306921896
ClassificationsDewey:792.76028092
Audience
General
Illustrations 8 pages of black-&-white photos

Publishing Details

Publisher Hachette Books
Imprint Da Capo Press Inc
Publication Date 4 December 2018
Publication Country United States

Description

Doug Stanhope has been drunkenly stumbling down the back roads and dark alleys of stand-up comedy for over a quarter of a century, roads laden with dank bars, prostitutes, cheap drugs, farm animals, evil dwarfs, public nudity, menacing third-world police, psychotic breaks, sex offenders, and some understandable suicides. You know, just for levity. While other comedians were seeking fame, Stanhope was seeking immediate gratification, dark spectacle, or sometimes just his pants. Not to say he hasn't rubbed elbows with fame. He's crashed its party, snorted its coke, and jumped into its pool naked, literally and often repeatedly--all while artfully dodging fame himself. Doug spares no legally permissible detail, and his stories couldn't be told any other way. They're weird, uncomfortable, gross, disturbing, and fucking funny. This Is Not Fame is by no means a story of overcoming a life of excess, immorality, and reckless buffoonery. It's an outright celebration of it. For Stanhope, the party goes on.

Author Biography

Doug Stanhope is a veteran of over twenty-five years of stand-up comedy. With a litany of dubious television credits, he has successfully dodged mainstream fame using his uncompromising brand of stand-up to build a cult-like following around the world. He's won numerous accolades and has recorded over a dozen comedy specials.Stanhope tours extensively in North America and overseas. He has been described by the New York Times as 'an acidic blend of prickly hostility, elaborately articulated self-loathing, and righteous anger.' A regular guest on the Howard Stern Show and appointed the Voice of America for Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe on the BBC, Stanhope continues to be an armchair revolutionary for the excluded, ignored, forgotten, and wasted of society, rallying them with what The Guardian calls 'comedy with brains and guts and a heart.'Stanhope resides in the US border town of Bisbee, Arizona, with pets who have people names, in an absurd relationship with his gal pal Bingo.