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Birth Name:	Douglas Gene Stanhope
Date of Birth:	25th March, 1967
Place of Birth:	Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Profession:	Comedian, Actor, Writer, Producer
Girlfriend:	Amy Bingaman
Net Worth:	$1.5 million

Doug Stanhope Net Worth: Doug Stanhope is a famous American stand-up comedian, author, political activist and podcast host with an estimated net worth of $1.5 million as of 2022. Comedian Doug Stanhope was born on March 25, 1967, in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.

Who is Doug Stanhope?

Doug Stanhope born as Douglas Gene Stanhope is a famous American comedian and political activist who appeared in many major comedy festivals, including the Chicago Comedy Festival, US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen Colorado, the Montreal Just For Laughs, and Scotland’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Doug Stanhope Early Life

Doug Stanhope was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S on March 25, 1967. His mother Bonnie worked as a waitress and Russ Stanhope, his father, was the head the science department at Doug’s school. Stanhope is the older brother of Jeff. Bonnie was an alcoholic but when Doug was 10, she divorced Russ and gave up alcohol. She then moved to Florida. Bonnie suffered from emphysema in her later years. In 2008, she asked Stanhope for help using a mix of alcohol and morphine to stop her suffering. When he was 12, Doug’s school psychiatrist suggested that Stanhope needed professional help due to his bloody limbs, and the adult cartoons he loved sketching. At 15 years old, he dropped out of high school and began to do comedy full-time. He worked as a telemarketer before doing full-time comedy. Doug lived six months in Los Angeles after leaving Worcester. He then moved several more times until settling in Las Vegas.

Doug Stanhope Net Worth and Career

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Doug Stanhope Career

Stanhope started performing stand-up comedy in 1990 at the age 23. He began his career with an open mic at a Las Vegas bar. After moving to Phoenix, Arizona, Stanhope was hired as the house-MC at a comedy club. In 1995, he moved to West Hollywood and performed regularly at The Comedy Store as well as the Hollywood Improv. Doug wrote a pilot together with a writer from “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” but it wasn’t picked up. Three years later, he released “The Great White Stanhope,” his first comedy album. He won the 1995 San Francisco International Comedy Competition. Stanhope made comments after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 that led to protests outside his shows and physical violence. In 2001, Doug starred on his own “Comedy Central Presents” special. The following year, he appeared in Fox’s “Invasion of the Hidden Cameras”. He also released the album “Die Laughing,” and the DVD “Doug Stanhope – Word of Mouth.” He was the host of “The Man Show” during Joe Rogan’s fifth- and sixth seasons. In 2005, he launched his SIRIUS Satellite Radio show and was a guest on “The Aristocrats.”

Stanhope founded the comedy group “The Unbookables”, which included touring comedians like Brendon Walsh, Andy Andrist and released the album “Morbid Obscenity” (2006). After he joked about Irish men committing pedophilia because Irish women are unattractive, several of his shows at the Cat Laughs Comedy Festival were cancelled. The Guardian in London ranked Doug’s show among the top five on its “20 Best Live Shows 2009” list. He also appeared in vignettes in “Newswipe With Charlie Brooker” and “Charlie Brooker’s Weekly Wipe” in Britain. He signed with Roadrunner Records in 2010, which was known for heavy metal and rock music. He then launched Roadrunner Comedy. In 2011, he released “Oslo: Burning The Bridge To Nowhere”. Stanhope also performed at Litla-Hraun in Iceland in 2011 and was a guest star on “Louie” on FX. In 2012, he released the comedy special and album called “Before Turning the Gun On Himself”, followed by “Beer Hall Putsch” (2013) and “No Place Like Home” (2016). All three albums reached the top of Billboard’s Comedy Albums Chart. He continued the success of the albums by releasing digital versions “Popov Vodka Presents : An Evening With Doug Stanhope” (2017) and “The Dying of A Last Breed” (2020). He also appeared in “Hope on Top”: A Mitch Hedberg Oral History (2020) as well as “Too Soon”: Comedy after 9/11 (2021).

Doug Stanhope Personal Life

Doug and Renee Morrison, his then-girlfriend, staged a Las Vegas wedding ceremony “mocking” the institution of marriage in 2002. They were also expecting their first child at one time during their relationship. Stanhope was also given a vasectomy after they decided that abortion was the right choice. Doug is in a relationship since 2005 with Amy “Bingo”, Bingaman. He dated Betsy Wise, a comedian for 18 months. Doug has often referred to himself in interviews with “Such Small Portions” as a drunk. He stated that he had not done stand-up comedy shows sober since 2003 which in turn affected Doug Stanhope net worth value. Stanhope used to be a libertarian but he stated that it was “just something he went through.” Doug answered “The List” in 2012 when he was asked about his political views. He said, “I’m kinda anarchist, but in a quiet manner.” He spoke at the Bisbee City Council Meeting in Arizona, where he had lived since 2005, to support civil unions between gay couples. Stanhope started a fundraiser in the same year for a Moore family that lost their home to a tornado in Oklahoma. It raised over $125,000.

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