By Robert Scucci
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Since the late 90s and the first aughts have marked the death of monoculture, I had a lot of time to follow my favorite musicians, artists and actors because of their guerrilla marketing campaigns, or, in some cases, their lack of marketing together. The number of times I ended up shooting a night because I discovered that a new album had an unexpected drop at midnight after years of radio silence is palpable, but in the end, because that is how I choose to enrich my life with media, and I will sleep when I am dead. That’s all I had no idea that Doug Stanhope quietly released his last stand-up special, Reduced price meatfree of charge on Youtube on December 31, 2024.

After getting out of a digital detox in the form of deactivation of all my social media accounts, I was in equal parts surprised and delighted to discover that Stanhope had a solid new hour and 18 minutes ready to be striking in my eyeballs in the hour following the return to my usual scenario.

The anti-comedian’s anti-comedian

Reduced price meat Begins like many other specials of Doug Stanhope in the sense that he presents himself on stage half in the bag, ready to go in the diatribe of a life. By letting the public know that there is no opening act because it is easier for him not to be as funny as it is normally for the first 20 minutes of his set (which is fundamentally the same as an act of opening), he explains how he worked most of the equipment heard in Reduced price meat Before the coated locking, then started working on more equipment a little recently, and has no idea of ​​the end of his set because it has two different closures that are not linked.

If you know something about Doug Stanhope, he spent his entire career to fly near the siege of his pants, appearing on stage by carrying the Thrift Store jacket that he bought the day before (without washing it), and approaches the stand-up comedy with the same unpredictability that he approaches his personal hygiene.

Beginning by debate Reduced price meatAnd makes a unique tour of what would otherwise be a standard / hacking premise if it came from the mouth of another actor. After spending a lot of time assessing the advantages and disadvantages of the two global disasters, it solves that September 11 had better conspiracy theories, which it does not necessarily believe, but famous as a form of entertainment. In the mind of Stanhope, the theories of the conspiracy of yesteryear have more weight because even if he knew he was lied, the values ​​of production of documentaries as Change has become valid enough to deceive a healthy amount of people.

Pass on his conversations with Roseanne Barr about Qanon, People Lizard, and how the flat earth plots do not hold a lot of control like someone by simply raising the shoulders, Stanhope swivel in good things, as revisiting the time when he helped his mother (who is spoken in more details Beer Hall Putsch), the current suicide pact he has with his wife, and leaving his dog on the death rod running in the Safeway without a leash for a last epic supper without worry of the world.

Not just a scene and a microphone

Reduced price meat is not like the others Special stand-up You have seen because he is not presented as a guy on a scene with a microphone speaking to the public, but rather played via vintage television screens your Screen as if someone looked at Stanhope occurring in the comfort of their own living room or study. At the beginning, I did not think that I would be in this kind of delivery, but once I was locked in his routine, I felt like I was looking quietly with someone else, which made an intimate experience that I did not expect.

Although I cannot say with certainty why Stanhope approached Discount Meat In such an innovative way, the dominant theory among his fans is that he wanted to “disseminate” his special in a way that reflected the way he grew up looking at the stand-up and working on material itself.

Prove that he always has it, Stanhope remains cynical, vulgar, insightful and wickedly hilarious because all his shtick is that he simply laughed at half -cooked ideas, hoping that he finds his groove in real time even if he is sure to say that a healthy part of his act is, in fact, premeditated. Stumbles on his own words and spoil the punchlines as planned in Reduced price meatStanhope proves that no matter how prepared or unprepared for or not, he knows how to order a crowd at the highest level, making him one of the grown -ups.

If you slept on Doug Stanhope Reduced price meat As I did, there is still time to wake up and head towards YouTube and laugh while laughing.