stand-up comedian
, actor, and author known for his abrasive comedy routines.
Stanhope quit high school after his freshman year. His comedy career began 1990 in Las Vegas
.
Stanhope has made appearances at several major comedy festivals, including the Montreal
Just For Laughs
, US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado
, the Chicago
Comedy Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
in Scotland
, where he won the Strathmore Press Award in 2002.
Stanhope was the winner of the 1995 San Francisco International Comedy Competition
where he edged out notable comedic actor Dane Cook
in a three-week contest.
If you really believe that death leads to eternal bliss, then why are you wearing a seatbelt?
I had a girl say this to me. She goes "you know, if god intended women to suck dick, he'd made cum taste like chocolate" I said "Yeah, but he had to make it taste like bleach so you remember to do the laundry"
Are there any vice cops in here? You dicks. How do you do that for a living? I don't understand. I first read these stories and I think "Don't you have real crime to fight somewhere?" But then you think about it vice cops don't fight real crime; that's not their job. Real cops fight real crime. A vice cop's only job is to fuck up the party.
I hate when your friends quit drinking on you, don't you? It's sad. I've lost more friends to AA than Liberace did to the virus. It's sad to see 'em go. You see a thirty day chip on your buddy's key ring, it's like seeing a toe tag on his cold, stiff corpse.
Life is like animal porn, it's not for everyone.
Suicide is another thing that's so frowned upon in this society, but honestly, life isn't for everybody. It really isn't. It's sad when kids kill themselves 'cause they didn't really give it a chance, but life is like a movie: if you've sat through more than half of it and it sucked every second so far, it probably isn't gonna get great right at the very end for you and make it all worthwhile. No one should blame you for walking out early.
Babies are like poems. They're beautiful to their creator, but to other people they're silly and fucking irritating.
I couldn't be a responsible enough parent if my kid was born with a new suit and a full-time job.
It's thirty days since the terrorist act. George Bush has told us to go back to our normal lives and to go back to what we used to do, so I've gone back to thinking that George Bush is a soft-headed tit and a danger to all of us.