Doug Stanhope Net Worth 2024

What Is Doug Stanhope’s Net Worth?

Doug Stanhope is an American comedian, actor, author, producer, and podcast host who has a net worth of $1.5 million. Stanhope started performing stand-up comedy within the early ’90s and went on to look at various festivals, shortly gaining reputation across the U.S. Doug has launched a number of stand-up comedy albums, together with “The Great White Stanhope” (1998), “Sicko” (1999), “Something to Take the Edge Off” (2000), “Die Laughing” (2002), “Deadbeat Hero” (2004), and “No Place Like Home” (2016), and he produced the comedy specials “Doug Stanhope: No Refunds” (2007), “Doug Stanhope’s the Unbookables” (2012), and “Doug Stanhope: The Comedians’ Comedian’s Comedians” (2017) in addition to the TV sequence “Invasion of the Hidden Cameras” (2002).

Stanhope co-hosted “The Man Show” with Joe Rogan from 2003 to 2004 (he additionally wrote for the present), and as an actor, he has appeared within the movies “Memphis Bound… and Gagged” (2001) and “Punching Henry” (2016) and the tv sequence “Rude Awakening” (2000–2001), “Louie” (2011), “Roseanne” (2018), and “Sick of It” (2020). Doug has additionally launched the books “Fun With Pedophiles: The Best of Baiting” (2006), “Digging Up Mother: A Love Story” (2016), “This Is Not Fame: A ‘From What I Re-Memoir'” (2017), and “No Encore for the Donkey” (2020), and he has hosted “The Doug Stanhope Podcast” since 2013.

Early Life

Doug Stanhope was born Douglas Gene Stanhope on March 25, 1967, in Worcester, Massachusetts. His mom, Bonnie, labored as a waitress, and his father, Russ (who handed away in 2000), was the top of the science division at Doug’s faculty. Stanhope has an older brother named Jeff. Bonnie was an alcoholic, however when Doug was 10 years previous, she divorced Russ, gave up alcohol, and moved to Florida. In Bonnie’s later years, she suffered from emphysema, and in 2008, she requested Stanhope to finish her struggling with a combination of alcohol and morphine. When Doug was 12, his faculty psychiatrist advised to Bonnie that Stanhope was “in want {of professional} assist” due to the bloody limbs and grownup cartoons he loved sketching. He dropped out of highschool at age 15, and located work as a telemarketer earlier than he started doing comedy full-time. After leaving Worcester, Doug spent six months dwelling in Los Angeles, then moved just a few extra instances earlier than settling in Las Vegas.

Career

In 1990, Stanhope started performing stand-up comedy on the age of 23, beginning with an open mic evening at a bar in Las Vegas. He later moved to Phoenix, Arizona, and was employed as the home MC at a comedy membership. He moved to West Hollywood in 1995 and frequently carried out at The Comedy Store and the Hollywood Improv. After touchdown a improvement deal, Doug co-wrote a pilot with a author who had labored on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” nevertheless it was not picked up. He received the San Francisco International Comedy Competition in 1995, and he launched his first comedy album, “The Great White Stanhope,” three years later. After the September eleventh terrorist assaults, Stanhope made some feedback that resulted in individuals protesting exterior of his reveals and attacking him onstage. In 2001, Doug starred in his personal “Comedy Central Presents” particular, and the next yr, he appeared on Fox’s “Invasion of the Hidden Cameras” and launched the album “Die Laughing” and the DVD “Doug Stanhope: Word of Mouth.” He hosted “The Man Show” with Joe Rogan throughout the present’s fifth and sixth seasons, and in 2005, he bought his personal SIRIUS Satellite Radio present and appeared in “The Aristocrats.”

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Stanhope shaped the comedy group The Unbookables” with touring comics corresponding to Brendon Walsh and Andy Andrist, they usually launched the album “Morbid Obscenity” in 2006. That yr a number of of his dates on the Cat Laughs Comedy Festival in Ireland had been cancelled after he made a joke about Irish males committing pedophilia attributable to Irish ladies being unattractive. The London newspaper “The Guardian” ranked Doug’s dwell present within the high 5 in its “20 Best Live Shows of 2009” record, and he appeared in vignettes on the British present “Newswipe with Charlie Brooker” in 2010 and “Charlie Brooker’s Weekly Wipe” in 2013. In 2010, he signed with the report label Roadrunner Records, which was primarily identified for rock and heavy steel music, to launch the comedy label Roadrunner Comedy, and he launched the album “Oslo: Burning The Bridge To Nowhere” in 2011. Also in 2011, Stanhope carried out at Litla-Hraun, the one most safety jail in Iceland, and he guest-starred on the FX sequence “Louie.” He launched the comedy particular and album “Before Turning the Gun on Himself” in 2012, adopted by 2013’s “Beer Hall Putsch” and 2016’s “No Place Like Home.” All three albums reached #1 on the “Billboard” Comedy Albums chart. He adopted the success of these albums with the digital releases “Popov Vodka Presents: An Evening with Doug Stanhope” in 2017 and “The Dying Of A Last Breed” in 2020. Around this time, he additionally appeared within the documentaries “Hope on Top: A Mitch Hedberg Oral History” (2020) and “Too Soon: Comedy After 9/11” (2021).

Personal Life

In 2002, Doug and his then-girlfriend, Renee Morrison, staged a Las Vegas wedding ceremony “mocking the establishment of marriage,” and at one level throughout their relationship, they had been anticipating a child. They determined that abortion was your best option for them, and Stanhope additionally underwent a vasectomy. Doug dated comedian Betsy Wise for 18 months, and he has been in a relationship with Amy “Bingo” Bingaman since 2005. Doug has referred to himself as a drunk, and in a 2011 interview with “Such Small Portions,” he stated that he hadn’t completed a stand-up comedy present sober since 2003. Stanhope was previously a libertarian, however in 2017, he stated that it was “only a section [he] went by.” When requested about his political beliefs in a 2012 interview with “The List,” Doug responded, “I’m type of an anarchist, simply in a quiet means.” In 2013, he spoke at a City Council Meeting in Bisbee, Arizona (the place he has lived since 2005) to specific assist for civil unions between same-sex {couples}, stating, “I’m not homosexual and I feel marriage is silly. I’ve no canine on this battle besides human equality.” That yr Stanhope additionally began a fundraiser for a family whose house was destroyed by a twister in Moore, Oklahoma, and raised greater than $125,000.

Awards and Nominations

In 2012, Stanhope earned a Gold Derby Award nomination for Comedy Guest Actor for “Louie.” At the 2002 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, he received the Strathmore Press Award, which was voted on by 40 members of the British press. “Time Out New York” has honored Doug with the Best Comedy Performance award twice.