LIVE FROM LEICESTER SQUARE PRESENTS DOUG STANHOPE ***EXCLUSIVE**** HIS ONLY UK THEATRE DATES OF 2009 'Thank god he’s a comedian, not a despot' Chortle 'What makes Stanhope essential viewing is that none of this is an act' The Sunday Times Brutal, shambolic, savage and unpredictable, US comedian Doug Stanhope returns to Leicester Square Theatre for six nights only from Tuesday September 1 - Sunday September 6 - his only UK theatre dates this year. The press performance is Tuesday September 1 at 7.30pm. His last visit to his favourite UK comedy venue resulted in a bollocking for the BBC from the watchdog OFCOM following comments Doug made about the Republican VP-hopeful Sarah Palin's children on a live radio show. His particularly messy, vicious mean-spirited sets led previously adoring fans to question their devotion. And his self-coined brand of drunken anti-merriment 'Fetish Comedy' (hardcore and not for everyone) covered the futility of the Olympics, incentive based eugenics, sex and a violent attack on religious moderation. But here he is again... the vicious, uncompromising, messy genius he is. 'He's still a brilliant stand-up: a poet of articulate disgust, unleashing fireballs of comedy from the hell of his own imagination' Guardian