Digging Up Mother: A Love Story

by Doug Stanhope

Book Overview

Doug Stanhope is one of the most critically acclaimed and stridently unrepentant comedians of his generation. What will surprise some is that he owes so much of his dark and sometimes uncomfortably honest sense of humor to his mother, Bonnie. It was the cartoons in her Hustler magazine issues that molded the beginnings of his comedic journey, long before he was old enough to know what to do with the actual pornography. It was Bonnie who recited Monty...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306824396
• ISBN13: 9780306824395
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Real comedy meets real life.

If you're already a Stanhope fan already of course you'll love this book, but if you are unfamiliar with his comedy I still recommend you read this raw, funny, and touching book. It does so much more than make you laugh! But you will laugh, many times. If you don't, you don't understand comedy.