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Something To Take The Edge Off
''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 The Laff Stop was a comedy club, with locations in Texas and California. History and venues The Laff Stop was created by Michael Callie and originated in Newport Beach, California and featured comics such as Steve Martin, David Letterman, Bill Hi ... comedy club in Houston, Texas. The album features a musical accompaniment by Henry Phillips on acoustic guitar. Track listing #"Vice" - 6:33 #"Real Stories" - 2:55 #"Top Ten Laws" - 1:06 #"Quitter" - 2:54 #"Live Life" - 1:04 #"Suicide" - 3:27 #"Dead Sport/Behind the Comedy" - 5:20 #"$16 an hour" - 1:04 #"Scared Straight" - 1:27 #"Don’t Pull Your Dick Out" - 1:45 #"A Matter of Size" - 1:20 #"Big Rubber Fist" - 2:24 #"Pace Yourself" - 1:46 #"Destroying Your Body" - 0:50 #"Shake the Baby" - 5:02 #"Freak Shows" - 1:28 #"Offensive to Midgets" - 3:20 #"End the Hate" - 2:27 #"The Tit Fuc ...
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An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual Phonograph record#78 rpm disc developments, 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at  revolutions per minute, rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the populari ...
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Doug Stanhope
Doug Stanhope (born March 25, 1967) is an American stand-up comedian, author, political activist and podcast host. His stand-up material favors caustic and often obscene observations of life in the style of Bill Hicks and Bill Burr, which he delivers while consuming alcohol. Politically, he has favored libertarianism and once endorsed the Free State Project, a proposed political migration of at least 20,000 libertarians to a single low-population state to foster libertarian ideas. Early life Stanhope was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, to a middle class family. His father Russ was head of science at Stanhope's school, and died in 2000. His mother Bonnie (''née'' Kirk) was a waitress. A recovering alcoholic, she divorced her husband when Stanhope was ten years old, quit drinking and moved to Florida. In 1998, he persuaded her to live near him in West Hollywood. In her later life she suffered from emphysema. In 2008, at her request, she wished for Stanhope to be involved in an a ...
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-ismist Recordings
-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. History In 1988, Schlissel was a student at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, where he majored in physics, worked at an off-campus record store called Feedback, and booked concerts for the university as chairman of the concert and dance committee. In 1992, inspired by ...
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Stand Up! Records
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." A relatively small operation, the label is run almost entirely by Schlissel, who also served as recording engineer and producer on many of the label's albums. The lab ...
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Sicko (album)
''Sicko'' is the second stand-up comedy album by Doug Stanhope. It was released in 1999 by Stand Up! Records and recorded live at The Laff Stop The Laff Stop was a comedy club, with locations in Texas and California. History and venues The Laff Stop was created by Michael Callie and originated in Newport Beach, California and featured comics such as Steve Martin, David Letterman, Bill Hi ... comedy club in Houston, Texas. Intended as a replacement to his debut album, ''The Great White Stanhope'', ''Sicko'' contains much of the same material as his freshman effort, including the infamous "Banana Lady" and "Transvestite Hooker" stories. Track listing # "No Holes Barred" - 2:36 # "Mom" - 6:10 # "Someone's Been Sleeping in My Bed" - 2:33 # "!*?$%! Truckers" - 3:36 # "Ecstasy" - 2:05 # "For the Man Who Has Everything" - 2:50 # "The Perfect Girl" - 3:24 # "Tits Are Illegal" - 3:09 # "Smoke This" - 3:32 # "Terrible Piece of Ass" - 4:10 # "The Banana Lady" - 7:38 # "SICKO" - 4:51 # "The ...
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Die Laughing (album)
''Die Laughing'' is the fourth stand-up comedy album by Doug Stanhope, released in 2002 by Stand Up! Records. Track listing #"Stillborn Liver" - 2:05 #"DUI/MADD" - 5:03 #"Drugs Are for Kids" - 1:30 #"Second Hand Bullshit" - 3:52 #"Hair in My Food" - 1:41 #"Get Off the Field, You Suck!" - 3:16 #"School Shootings" - 5:35 #"Cowards" - 3:56 #"Ants" - 1:25 #"Wisdom" - 2:19 #"President Doug" - 3:23 #"Fuck You God" - 4:48 #"Try Sodomy!" - 6:49 #"Pro Abortion" - 1:45 #"Lucky in Love" - 2:41 #"Stuff I Should Have Edited Out But Didn't" - 1:54 #"Eeewwww!" - 3:27 #"The Upside of Sexual abuse" - 0:49 #"To Tell You the Truth" - 3:46 #"Potty Mouth" - 1:08 #"The Beautiful People" - 4:42 Personnel *John Machnik – Remastering *Dan Schlissel 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 nearb ... â ...
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The Laff Stop
The Laff Stop was a comedy club, with locations in Texas and California. History and venues The Laff Stop was created by Michael Callie and originated in Newport Beach, California and featured comics such as Steve Martin, David Letterman, Bill Hicks and Robin Williams. There were also Laff Stop clubs in Montclair, California Palm Springs, CA and Austin, Texas (which changed its name to Cap City Comedy Club in 1996). The location in Houston, Texas was open since 1977, and was one of the most successful clubs through the 1990s. It closed on December 19, 2009, in a surprise announcement. The Houston Laff Stop changed locations a few times during its existence, the last stop becoming an upstairs strip mall location at Waugh and Allen Parkway. The previous location on West Gray Street is now a bar called Local Pour. The club later served as a starting point and hometown club for such acts as Ralphie May and Brett Butler. In media Albums and videos recorded at the Laff Stop include ...
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Henry Phillips (comedian)
Henry Phillips (born November 14, 1969) is an American comedian, writer, actor, and singer-songwriter known for his unique self-deprecating comedic style. He co-wrote and starred in ''Punching the Clown'' (2009) and its sequel '' Punching Henry'' (2016), and directed ''My First Comedy Special'' (2018) and TV series ''You and Your Fu*king Coffee'' (2013–). He has made many appearances in films, television shows and podcasts, and is the creator of the web series "Henry's Kitchen". Early life Phillips was born on November 14, 1969, in Los Angeles, California. He started playing guitar when he was 8 years old and was inspired by Billy Joel as a teen. Career In 2005, Phillips appeared on season 9 of ''Comedy Central Presents''. In 2009, he co-wrote and starred in ''Punching the Clown'', and appeared in the comedy special ''4:20 Hour Stand-Up'', directed by Lee Abbott and starring Doug Benson. From 2013, Phillips directed and starred in the television and web series ''You and Y ...
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Doug Stanhope Albums
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Stand Up! Records Live Albums
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