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The Alternative Comedy Experience Series 2 - October 2018 October 15th, 2018
Comedy Central’s critically acclaimed cult stand-up series The Alternative Comedy Experience is back with 13 brand new episodes. Curated once again by Stewart Lee the show takes another entirely original look at the grass roots stand-up scene with performances from the best cult comedy acts around and is unlike any other live comedy show on…
The Alternative Comedy Experience Series 1 - October 2018 October 15th, 2018
Over thirty years ago, a new wave of stand-ups spearheaded the Alternative Comedy movement, marking themselves out as different from the safe television turns, the Oxbridge satirists, and the racist and sexist Working Men’s Club comics of the time. THE ALTERNATIVE COMEDY EXPERIENCE captures that same schism happening again. An advance raiding party of modern…
The Alternative Comedy Experience Series 2 - January 2017 January 21st, 2017
Comedy Central’s critically acclaimed cult stand-up series The Alternative Comedy Experience is back with 13 brand new episodes. Curated once again by Stewart Lee the show takes another entirely original look at the grass roots stand-up scene with performances from the best cult comedy acts around and is unlike any other live comedy show on…
The Alternative Comedy Experience Series 1 - January 2017 January 21st, 2017
The eagerly awaited DVD release of Comedy Centrals cult-hit TV series curated by STEWART LEE and featuring a cast of hugely talented and critically acclaimed comedy misfits. This 2 disc set contains all 12 episodes from season one which includes performances from TONY LAW, SIMON MUNNERY, ISY SUTTIE, DAVID O DOHERTY, PAUL FOOT, BOOTHBY GRAFFOE,…
The elite have ‘stitched up’ comedy - July 2013 Chortle - By Jay Richardson - July 8th, 2013
British comedy has undergone an elitist ‘stitch-up’, with poorer performers being ‘priced out’ of success, Stewart Lee has claimed. The respected comic also railed against the BBC for allowing its forthcoming Edinburgh Fringe coverage to be dominated by one of the industry’s most powerful agents… and vowed to try to use Comedy Central’s Alternative Comedy…
Stewart Lee’s history of TV stand-up - February 2013 The Radio Times - By Stewart Lee - February 5th, 2013
The Alternative Comedy Experience, yet another stand-up showcase for television, begins on Comedy Central tonight at 11pm. Featuring the kind of comics that other comedians stay out late to see, and an uncharacteristically high proportion of female acts, the show is intended as an Alternative to the increasingly formulaic content and presentation of stand-up on…