Was It Stand Up Comedy or Performance Art?

There was a slight tension between main stream stand up comedy and what was sort of evolving as performance art on the lower sid right? So then there was the whole performance art, you know, aspect of it. And through my late wife, joe andres, i got to meet people like tom murrin, who was a the alien comic,. He wisd he would just find things on the street and make his own props and tumes. There were another a duo called dance noise, lucy sexon and annie obston. They did this like, sort of like political burlesquetis is in the late seventies. Now we're moving into the early ok.