One for the Bill Hicks fans - All Hell's A-Coming!

[Dave Bishop]

All Hell?s A-Coming ? Doug Stanhope to appear at Manchester Comedy Festival 2006

"Ask anyone whose opinion matters, and they'll tell you Doug Stanhope is one of the top ten stand-ups in the world today? Chortle.

Doug Stanhope, is the closest living thing to the late Bill Hicks -- a booze-tinged, tobacco-ravaged voice railing against cultural hypocrisy and ingrained idiocy. Stanhope's brand of comedy is a ruthless social commentary; a stream-of-consciousness rant on lowbrow and highbrow concepts alike. Named recently by both Variety and The Hollywood Reporter as one of the top ten comics to watch, Stanhope, takes delight in exploring taboo topics and in the process gives the very foundations of American beliefs a brutal kicking. Doug?s stance is provocative and abrasive: his material ranges from true-life graphic perversion to volatile social criticism. His viewpoint is vulgar, opinionated, and shockingly uninhibited but in the final analysis he is being brutally honest and for that reason Doug?s performances will certainly not be for everybody, so stay home if you're easily offended.

He'll be appearing for his first ever gigs in England at the Manchester Comedy Festival 2006 and promises to make a huge impact on all those brave enough to come and see him. Dave Bishop says ?I?m buzzing that Doug has agreed to come over for the Manchester Comedy Festival. I think he will blow the people of Manchester away.?

Doug has built a wide-ranging television resume of dubious achievement. He hosted The Man Show on Comedy Central as well as the ubiquitous psuedo-porn for the sexually crippled, "Girls Gone Wild", both solely and shamelessly for financial gain. He has appeared on "The Howard Stern Show", "Comedy Central Presents", "Premium Blend", NBC's "Late Friday", "Spy TV" BBC's "Floor Show Live" while on ecstasy and wrote, produced and starred in Fox's "Invasion of the Hidden Cameras" and has even popped up on "Fox News with Greta Van Sustern" and "The Jerry Springer Show". But none of it compares to seeing him live.

He?s appeared at major comedy festivals including the Montreal Just For Laughs, Aspen US Comedy Arts, Chicago Comedy Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, where he won the Strathmore Press Award in 2002.

"There's a kind of Olympic torch of extreme American comedy, which passed from Lenny Bruce, through Richard Pryor and Sam Kinison, among others, to the late Bill Hicks. Doug Stanhope is its latest, and equally brilliant, bearer." The Independent.

"Stanhope shocks you with the virulence of his lucidity; he shocks you into realising how transparent the confidence trick of western propaganda can be made to seem. What he has in abundance is the charm, don't-give-a-damn swagger and aggressive intelligence that make for important, exciting comedy." The Guardian

"Stanhope breaks down the walls of decency. He uses profanity, but nothing he says is meant to shock. Everything he says is designed to make the audience laugh. Stanhope has worked his way to become one of the best comics around" The Reno Gazette Journal

Doug Stanhope headlines All Hell?s A-Coming at the Comedy Store, Deansgate Locks, 1a-3 Whitworth Street West, Manchester, M1 5LH on Friday October 27th. Also on the bill are Norman Wilkerson "Sharp, off color, and howlingly funny - The San Francisco Chronicle? and Dave Bishop "The star of the new generation emerging on Manchester?s comedy scene - Student Direct?

www.dougstanhope.com
www.myspace.com/davebishop
www.myspace.com/normanwilkerson

For Tickets
www.ticketmaster.co.uk/event/18003CA59F3DD1A0?artistid=940528&majorcatid=10002&minorcatid=51

Examples
http://www.sacredcow.com/allnew/ext_content.php?n=store_dvd_wordofmouth

American Arrogance, The "Axis of Evil", CNN Drinking Game, and is George W. Bush a president or an exorcist?

[faceless]

nice one - I tried to get Stanhope to perform at the small gig I ran a few years back when he was over for the Edinburgh festival but he wrote back saying something about not wanting to play a bear-pit! And this from a guy who had Extreme Elvis pissing on his guests at his wedding reception!

I might even come down to Manc for that - I'm sure it will be a cracker.

[Dave Bishop]

Will definately be worth it - Ventura are just about to release Deadbeat Hero properly in the UK - it's going to be on sale in HMV. Think this is the year he breaks.