This Generation Sucks!
The Great Doug Stanhope Explains His Problems with this Generation
If I recall correctly this is one of the first videos I ever saw of Doug Stanhope, a great comedian. Check him out on Netflix. He is a misanthropic, often drunk, truth teller. He has some great rants like this one, and one of drug legalization that really hit home with me about a decade ago.
When this video was posted I was experimenting with whatever drugs I could get my hands on, I was really hitting the bottle hard, and I was becoming more and more nihilistic. The soulless pantomime of modern society was starting to get to me. His act really spoke to that disenfranchisement.
Comedians are often the only ones telling the truth, they can be honest because they aren't meant to be taken seriously. I'm happy to say I've seen Stanhope live when he visited my city, he's a fantastic in-person act and I can not recommend him or his specials enough.
He's so good he even appeared on Charlie Brooker's show Weekly Wipe across the pond. With western civilization having an identity crisis (among various other crises) it is comforting, or at least reaffirming, to know there are cranky old fucks like Stanhope out there just as unhappy as you are.
Join me, The Gillos, as I go through my list of YouTube favourites spanning 9 years of content curation. Enjoy!