From hosting Girls Gone Wild videos to running for President of the United States to doing some of the country's edgiest standup, Doug Stanhope is one of a kind. The Philadelphia City Paper recently ran a short interview with the former Man Show host, where he had this to say:

City Paper: You're known for pushing your body to the extremes in terms of drug use. How do you feel about extreme sports?

Doug Stanhope: If you take unnecessary risks with your life in what's considered an athletic or sporting endeavor — mountain climbing, etc. — it's applauded. But if you do the same with your brain — psychedelics, etc. — you're a fucking moron. Evidently it's socially acceptable to get your thrills if it results in great calves and a tan, but frowned upon if it only gives you empathy for the human condition.

CP: Any other suggestions for feeling empathy for people?

DS: Stop making them. People are no different from any other commodity. The more there are on the market, the less their value. Slow the output and watch their market value skyrocket.

For more of Doug Stanhope's societal proposals, check out Just Do It: Doug Stanhope.

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On socially relevant comedy and the typical comedy club audience:

"People will say, "We came to the comedy club to get away from that." And you go, "Well, you were never really involved in that; don't act like that's your f**king life,  that's CNN... It doesn't affect your life... The f**king cubicle, crunching numbers and getting a bonus? That's your life...

"You'd much rather believe that f**king immigrants are trying to take your job, and pedophiles are trying to f**k your kids, and terrorists are trying to blow up your Ford Focus in particular, than realize that you're probably never even going to break a bone.  You have a couple of kids with a woman; you settle for less and that's it.

Punchline Magazine interview, July 2007