The History of Alternative Comedy Comedy

alternative comedy sort of starts in the early it's probably late 70s early 80s of people like Tony Allen who formed this comedy club. There was a rejection of that and then they were looking to people like Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor etc at which point stand-up comedy turns into something much more elaborate. The idea is that if we brand people as stupid they're therefore no longer a threat there's some kind of internalizing logic to that so that works with the kind of Boris stuff.