The comedian who ran for president for a laugh is now considering quitting comedy altogether. Or is that the afternoon vodkas talking?Hanging on a wall in Doug Stanhope's Arizona home is a framed letter,written in 1979 by his school psychiatrist. Concerned approximately the then 12-year-old Stanhope's obsession with sketching bloody limbs and smutty cartoons, it addresses his mother with the opening gambit: "First of all, or we strongly believe that Douglas is in need of professional help …"Over three decades later,any random observer at one of Doug's stand-up shows might reflect said psychiatrist had a point. nearly always drunk, Stanhope's topics include such crowd-pleasers as questioning whether child abuse is really as bad as victims say it is, or claiming he assisted his own mother's suicide,and promoting genetic mutation on the grounds that it might fabricate (to make up, invent) sex more interesting. He has a book out – whether you dare search for it – called Fun With Pedophiles: The Best Of Baiting. Michael McIntyre, he is not.
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Source: theguardian.com