Quotes & Jokes by Doug Stanhope / page 20
I had no musical or athletic ability, and I wasn't particularly good looking. Comedy was something I could do for attention.
If you start to smell some of the shit, you start smelling all of the shit.
I've had some bad shows where I just sucked, but I've had some assholes, too. Some guy stood up Saturday night and said 'This is the same shit you've been peddling the last five times you've been here.' That's your biggest fear: someone who knows every word you've ever said.
New York is baffling in the [sense that] it's a city that prides itself on being an absolute shit-hole. It's like — there's nothing good here, people are proud of that, they're happy, "Oh, it's overpriced, and it's overpopulated, and it stinks like piss, and comics! — comics film specials here!" And they all open with a joke about, "Yeah, you spend 8 thousand dollars a month for 9 square feet!" And you go, "Well, why do you fucking live here?" Why do people stay here?.. But unfortunately, this is where comedy works — where people are the most miserable. Like, I'd rather be filming a special on a beach in Costa Rica in a tiki bar right now, but they don't need comedians, they're already smiling, they're already happy — naturally! So that's why I'm doing a special here — cause it's the last fucking place I wanna be.
If you get made fun of working at Pier One Imports, you can’t pelt them with poop.
Raccoons don't need to do poppers in order to come while they're having anonymous same-sex interludes in a highway rest area.
I’ll defend child pornography, how about that? What’s wrong with seeing some child pornography? What if you watch child pornography because you find it hilarious? Then should it not a protected freedom of speech?
I am 42 years old and I have $9000, and I am out of ideas. I've nothing to spend it on. I'm bored shitless. I will die with that $9000.
How many kids do you have? Two. Don't have any more. That's the highest acceptable point... from now on take it in the ass.
I do good things in my life, too. It's just that none of them are funny.
The Unbookables are supposed to be unbookable. That's what it's all about.
I drink during every show. I can’t remember the last show I did completely sober. It works for me. I use it as a tool. It’s like steroids are for athletes. I’m looser and more self-confident. If I drank less, I wouldn’t have been on stage this long.
A real cop fights real crime. A vice cop's only job is to ruin the party.