This Is Not Fame: A from What I Re-Memoir

By Doug Stanhope

Book Overview

An unfiltered, unapologetic, hilarious, and sometimes obscene assemblage of tales from the down-and-dirty traveling comedy circuit

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306825740
• ISBN13: 9780306825743
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

An Odyssey of Debauchery worthy of Doug's Reputation.

Wow, let me start out by saying if you're a fan of Doug, I'm sure you'll love his book, you don't need me to tell you anything else. If you're not a fan of Doug, and you don't like vulgarity, then I recommend you steer clear, this book is written by a man who relishes breaking rules, and pushing taboos, he says so himself. However if you don't know who Doug is, but want to hear some very compelling stories from a comedian famed for his alcohol fueled debauched hijinks. You'll almost certainly laugh, you'll probably cringe a few times, you might even cry. This is the first book that made me sad as I watched my bookmark move closer and closer to the end. Savor it friends.