With over a decade of stage time and a penchant for making his own fun, whether its with imaginary dogs or a DIY murder-mystery night, Doug Mellard proves his mettle with “Fart Safari,” his first outing with Stand Up! Records. Mellard returns to Austin for the live set where he asks the tough questions: “Hey…
Listening to Doug Stanhope’s “Deadbeat Hero” is a lot like playing a game of “Would you rather…?” with yourself. There are tough questions. You might discover larger truths about your own psyche. You’ll probably be disgusted. You might put your fingers in your ears and sing “la la laaaaa!” Because, as he puts it, a…
Stanhope strikes back is nearly the best way we can put it. Die Laughing fearlessly follows in the steps of Lenny Bruce and Bill Hicks in eviscerating the stagnant American mindset. From our president to MADD to radical pro-abortion views, Doug makes you think where you stand on a variety of today’s hot topics. You…
Doug Stanhope’s fixing to kill himself. The method is the problem. The way he figures it, if he’s going to kill himself, he’d better make a spectacular exit. It’s gotta be a good story, or he’ll have wasted his biggest punchline. Performing overseas, he did get one particularly ingenious suggestion from a European fan, but…
“Sicko” is the self-produced first album from underground comedy legend Doug Stanhope and is a veritable “Best Of” from his first eight years of sick and twisted, albiet unsparingly honest, comedy. “Sicko” includes Stanhope classic stories “The Banana Lady” and “The Transvestite Hooker Incident” as well as loads of other material bound to make you…
Doug Stanhope’s second CD covers every hilarious topic from birth defects to suicide, performed live with Henry Phillips providing acoustic guitar accompaniment to help “take the edge off.” While the music offers a smoother pacing than the frenetic “Sicko,” the material doesn’t lose any of the bite for which Stanhope is renowned. Track Listing Vice…
Now that God has personally reached down from the heavens to smite Dwight Slade, it’s just him and his eponymous “Evil Monkey” left. Ten bucks says the monkey takes the series. A childhood friend of and now the heir apparent to revered stand up Bill Hicks, Dwight Slade shares his one-time partner’s smooth accent, laid…
Like a slug of Jack Daniels after one too many Appletinis, Dwight York s Quickies is a palate-cleansing dose of pure, distilled comedy. York skips the meandering and navel-gazing that too often passes for stand-up, instead breathing fresh life into the good old-fashioned one-liner. As he puts it, I hope you like jokes, because here…
A Dylan Brody performance has all the best qualities of a hot toddy. Classic, clarifying, bracing. Mellifluous in the literal, figurative, and onomatopoetic senses all at once. Brody takes living stuff, his experiences large and small, and lets it ferment, distilling, as his father s said to have said, the truth from the facts. The…
An award-winning novelist and playwright, Dylan Brody is hysterically funny, but in the most understated, beautiful, poignant, and well-wrought way possible. To simply call what he does on Brevity, his first studio album, stand up comedy would be to undercut each story s intricacies, glossing over what Brody remembers his father calling the difference between…
Occasionally, we all do exactly the wrong thing in the wrong moment, and it turns out alright anyway. For Dylan Brody, this is a way of life. He leads a charmed life, you see. As we learn on his new disk, “Chronological Disorder,” he can get a bad deal and still leave with all the…
With his credentials, Dylan Brody ought to just swagger out onto the stage and command his audience to laugh. Instead, on Stand Up! Records new release True Enough, the long-time performer humbly tells his stories while the giggles and accolades roll on in. Brody has a particular knack for toeing the line between long-form joke-telling…
There’s a mystery, a seduction to every Dylan Brody piece. Rather than veils, layers of meaning are peeled back slowly, each revealing a new facet of the teller and of the listener. This is to say, Dylan Brody is not a comedian, but a humorist, a wry observer more concerned with the truth than the…
Eddie Gossling is a singular, unfortgettable comic with festival credits and comedy specials and late night appearances under his belt… which makes it all the stranger that he’s best known as a behind-the-scenes man in his role as a writer for Comedy Central’s hit Tosh.O. This isn’t to say that his writing there isn’t stellar,…
Eddie Pepitone, known to many as “The Bitter Buddha,” comes across like some powerful alchemist’s admixture of Doug Stanhope, Jamie Kilstein, and Lewis Black—or maybe it’s a cross between classic, sardonic Bill Hicks and modern, relatable René Hicks (minus the rollerskates). No matter how you try to define him, Pepitone’s already one step ahead: so deep…
Never underestimate the guy who tells you where the bathrooms are. Not only will his information come in inordinately handy once you’ve started making progress on your jug o’ booze at the comedy club, he might also be a secret striver, an up-and-comer, a diamond in the rough. You’re gonna want to get in on…