Comedian Doug Stanhope rages against the machine at Funny Bone this week

Amid the bounty of righteous comedic anger we’ve got headed our way of late, Doug Stanhope stands tall as perhaps the one radiating the most confrontational fury.

Stanhope, like a latter-day Bill Hicks, is not afraid to alienate — or maybe provoke thought — as he rails against the fractured American way, clad in a rumpled thrift-store suit like a crooner with nothing to lose, with maybe a dash or two of Howard Beale for spice.

6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov,. 5, Funny Bone, 9101 International Drive, orlando.funnybone.com, $54-$84.

This article appears in Nov. 5-11, 2025.