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      • The rise of this type of comedy can be traced back to the 1980s and 1990s, when it emerged as a counterculture reaction to mainstream comedy. The Rise of Alternative Comedy: A Brief History The emergence of alternative comedy was rooted in the punk and new wave music scenes of the 1970s and 1980s.
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  2. Patton Oswalt cited Dana Gould as the originator of the alternative comedy scene in the early nineties, who also cites Janeane Garofalo as another progenitor of the scene. Beth Lapides started the Un-Cabaret shows, which was the flagship of the alternative comedy movement.

  3. A History of Alternative Comedy: With Tony Allen, Clive Anderson, Morwenna Banks, Jim Barclay. Angus Deayton traces the development of a new wave of British comedy. After years of sedate, "safe" comedy, TV humor took on a sharper, sometimes harsher edge thanks to a strong upsurge in comedy clubs and cabarets.

  4. Presented by Angus Deayton.Broadcast Sunday 10th January 1999.

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  5. 1999. Cast. Tony Allen (Self) Clive Anderson (Self) Morwenna Banks (Self) Jim Barclay (Self) Jo Brand (Self) Arnold Brown (Self) Scott Capurro (Self) Alan Davies (Self) Andy de la Tour (Self) Angus...

  6. Apr 27, 2022 · April 27, 2022. Matt Solomon. Let’s start with this: There has always been alternative comedy, in the sense that we’ve always had weird funny people doing things that exist outside of whatever was passing for mainstream at the time. But capital A Alt-Comedy may have started at an Elvis Costello concert in the early 1990s. Giphy/Elvis Costello.

  7. As Seen on TV (1999) video dump. 2.82K subscribers. Subscribed. 8. 132 views 3 months ago. Angus Deayton traces the development of a new wave of British comedy. After years of sedate, "safe"...

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  8. Apr 20, 2012 · Tom Gauld. By Andrew Clark. April 20, 2012. In 1992, I sat in a comedy club in Toronto with an 86-year-old Henny Youngman, and as he watched the performer onstage, he grew so enraged that he...

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