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The Alternative Comedy Experience

2013–2014 · 2 seasons

Watching a curated live comedy club set, with sharp, offbeat stand-up and quick glimpses behind the scenes.

Created by
Stewart Lee
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Stewart Lee
Overview
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 day Alternative Comedians offering material too clever, thoughtful, radical, satirical, strange, or downright stupid to make it onto the stand-up outlets of contemporary television. Filmed in front of a real comedy club audience, with its fast-moving distinctive visual style and unique cast The Alternative Comedy Experience is original, unpredictable, and unlike any other live stand-up show on our screens.

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Created by
Stewart Lee
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Stewart Lee
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Tone
  • satiricalstrength 3 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • art
  • media
  • identity
  • politics
  • class
Places
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
  • documentary
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language strong
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action0
Horror0
Humour8
Realism8
Romance0
Tension1
Darkness2
Complexity4
Emotional weight2

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Genres
comedy
Created by
Stewart Lee
Starring
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Length
2 seasons, 25 episodes
Network
Comedy Central
Languages
English

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