Further thoughts on Doug Stanhope

Content aside, my lasting impression of Doug Stanhope's gig is that it was lazy and incomplete.  This wasn't helped by me seeing so many polished performances in Edinburgh last week; including such modern greats as Brendan Burns, Paul Foot, and Richard Herring.

The audience can sense the difference between the comic checking his watch to see if he can squeeze in that one last bit of material and the one visibly calculating the minimum amount of stage-time he has to endure before reasonably exiting.