Doug Stanhope is an American stand-up comedian, author, political activist, and podcast host.
Glenn Wool is a Canadian stand-up comedian now living in England, known for what British newspaper The Independent called a "political yet gleefully daft brand of comedy." He has released six albums, including 2020's Viva Forever, produced by Grammy winner Dan Schlissel for Stand Up! Records. Mark Power of The Void magazine called Wool "a character with many personas, part hillbilly huckster, part political satirist, part shock comic ... He has his own brand of acerbic observational nihilist humour and uses it to devastating effect."
Douglas Steven Benson is an American comedian, marijuana rights advocate, television host, actor and reality-show judge who has appeared on Getting Doug With High, Comedy Central Presents, Best Week Ever, and Trailer Park Boys, and was a contestant on Last Comic Standing in the show's fifth season. He served as a judge for the Comedy Central series The High Court with Doug Benson.
Hack is a term used primarily in stand-up comedy, but also sketch comedy, improv comedy, and comedy writing to refer to a joke or premise for a joke that is considered obvious, has been frequently used by comedians in the past, and/or is blatantly copied from its original author. Alternatively, it may refer to a comedian or performance group that uses hack material or similarly unoriginal devices in their act. Since comedians and people who work with comedians are typically exposed to many more jokes than the general public, they may recognize a topic, joke or performer as hack before the general public does; as a result, even performers who do well on stage may be considered hacks by their peers.
Stand Up! Records is an American independent comedy record label founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota, by Grammy-winning producer Dan Schlissel. It has been called "the country's most respected indie comedy label." Stand Up! has released more than 200 comedy albums and videos since its founding in 2000, including albums by Lewis Black, Patton Oswalt, Greg Proops, David Cross, Maria Bamford, Hannibal Buress, Judy Gold, the Sklar Brothers, and Eddie Pepitone. Comedian and actor Marc Maron, who released his first three albums on Stand Up!, described Schlissel as "a guy who loves comedy, and is very attentive to the process of recording comedy," and, referencing the large number of noteworthy comics who were given important exposure in their early careers by the label, joked that "you've done everybody's first two records."
Joke theft is the act of performing and taking credit for comic material written or performed by another person without their consent and without acknowledging the other person's authorship. This may be a form of plagiarism and can, in some cases, be copyright infringement. A comic who is known to steal jokes may be labelled with the epithet "hack" by other comics. A "hack comic" uses material that is unoriginal or which is blatantly copied from its original author.
Sicko is a 2007 documentary film by Michael Moore.
Something to Take the Edge Off is the third comedy album by Doug Stanhope, released in 2000 by Stand Up! Records and recorded live at The Laff Stop comedy club in Houston, Texas. The album features a musical accompaniment by Henry Phillips on acoustic guitar.
Die Laughing is the fourth stand-up comedy album by Doug Stanhope, released in 2002 by Stand Up! Records.
Word of Mouth is Doug Stanhope's first stand-up DVD. It was recorded at the Velveeta Room in Austin, Texas on May 11, 2002, and produced by Sacred Cow Productions.
Deadbeat Hero is Doug Stanhope's second stand-up comedy DVD and his fifth CD. Recorded at the Comedy Underground in Seattle, Washington in 2004, originally produced by Shout Factory, and released as part of the Ad Lib Breakout Comedy Series. It was reissued in 2007 by Stand Up! Records.
Morbid Obscenity is the first CD put out by the collection of Comedians known as The Unbookables. Released in 2006 by Stand Up! Records and recorded live at the Skyline Comedy Cafe in Appleton, WI on April 5–8, 2006, Morbid Obscenity features music by "Banjo Ghost" Randy McCleary and stand-up sets by Doug Stanhope, Sean Rouse, Andy Andrist, Lynn Shawcroft, and Arthur Hinty.
No Refunds is Doug Stanhope's third stand-up DVD. Recorded at the Gotham Comedy Club in New York, NY on March 12, 2007. The performance originally aired August 3, 2007 on Showtime.
From Across the Street is the sixth stand-up comedy album by Doug Stanhope, released on November 24, 2009 by Stand Up! Records. It was recorded live on August 11, 2009 at Level 5 at City Stage in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Oslo: Burning The Bridge To Nowhere is the seventh stand-up comedy album by American comedian Doug Stanhope. It was released on May 3, 2011 via Roadrunner Records. It was recorded live in Norway at a former sewing machine factory and Nazi World War II bunker in the Oslo borough of Grünerløkka on September 18, 2009. The album peaked at #1 on the US Billboard Comedy Albums chart and #2 on the Heatseekers Albums chart.
-ismist Recordings was a Lincoln, Nebraska-based independent record label founded in 1992 by Dan Schlissel. Over the 1990s, -ismist released nearly 80 albums and singles by bands including Killdozer, Season to Risk, and House of Large Sizes. It is most widely known for comedy albums by Lewis Black and Doug Stanhope, as well as Iowa metal band Slipknot's 1997 debut/demo, Mate.Feed.Kill.Repeat. By the early 2000s, after Slipknot had moved on to major label Roadrunner Records and Schlissel had found greater success with comedians like Black and Stanhope than with indie rock, he changed his focus to comedy albums on a new, Minneapolis-based label, Stand Up! Records, which eventually replaced -ismist entirely.
Before Turning the Gun on Himself... is the eighth stand-up comedy album by Doug Stanhope. It was released on November 6, 2012, by Roadrunner Records. It was recorded live at The Complex in Salt Lake City, Utah. The album peaked at #1 on the US Billboard Comedy Albums chart and #11 on the Heatseekers Albums chart.
Beer Hall Putsch is the ninth stand-up comedy album by Doug Stanhope. It was released on December 3, 2013, by New Wave Dynamics. It was recorded live at Dante's in Portland, Oregon. The DVD includes a bonus video podcast recorded on the night of the show. The album peaked at #1 on the US Billboard Comedy Albums chart.
No Place Like Home is the tenth stand-up comedy album by American comedian Doug Stanhope. It was recorded live in Bisbee, Arizona and released on November 18, 2016 via Comedy Dynamics. The album peaked at #1 on the US Billboard Comedy Albums chart.
Dan Schlissel is an American record producer from Minneapolis, Minnesota, and founder of the record labels Stand Up! Records, which specializes in comedy, and -ismist Recordings, which focused on punk and alternative rock from Nebraska and nearby Midwestern states. Schlissel won a Grammy as producer of Lewis Black's 2006 album The Carnegie Hall Performance, and was nominated for his work on Black's two Grammy-nominated albums, Luther Burbank Performing Arts Center Blues and Anticipation. He is known for his work with Black and other comics including Doug Stanhope, Maria Bamford, Marc Maron, and Mitch Hedberg, and helping release the debut record of Iowa metal band Slipknot.
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