Day: August 3, 2012

Doug Stanhope is seemingly afraid of nothing. Certainly not death. Most definitely not offending anyone’s sensibilities. Showtime premieres the video version tonight of his most recently recorded hour, “Before Turning the Gun On Himself” (Roadrunner Records), with rebroadcasts throughout August 2012 on Showtime’s various pay-movie channels. Even when he starts off by claiming that the late Mitch Hedberg loved being a drug addict up until the moment he died from it — wherein Stanhope briefly hopes that Hedberg’s parents aren’t listening, before proceeding to mock their decision to host a charity golf tournament to support a rehab facility. He’s in...