Following comedian Andy Andrist’s onstage admission that he had been molested as a boy, he and friend Doug Stanhope decided to track down the man who did it and confront him on camera. I understand that a documentary is in the works. Here’s one small excerpt.
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I can’t exactly recall how I first came across the peculiar comedy of Doug Stanhope. I think it was just after Disinformation had published an article I had written expressing my controversial opinions of the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks (or maybe it was some other article altogether – I can’t recall), however I remember receiving an email from a guy claiming to be a US comedian who said he liked what I had written and that he would add me to his mailing list. I, of course, saw this as an opportunity to put him on my own mailing list (for my site) since being an opportunistic bastard, I like to promote my deranged writings whenever at all possible (well, some poor fucker has got to tell the truth, even if it does mean almost getting lynched, or risking being sued for libel, or having to occasionally hide behind obscure pseudonyms so that I don’t get sacked from my inspiringly creative day job).… Read the rest
Ostensibly a debate on eugenics, this becomes a wide ranging and philosophical discussion with lots to think about.
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