Basically Quote by Jen Kirkman

Comedy clubs were something that came to pass in the '80s, but toward the end of that, in the early '90s, people started doing…

— Eugene Mirman

When I first started comedy, I didn't know about the alt scene and I just started doing open mics in Manhattan and a lot…

— Rachel Sennott

Sometimes when you're doing a comedy, the director will yell out "alts" and then the director gets the first laugh.

— Tina Fey

Comedy is like music; it builds on itself. Once someone comes up with a theory or a different way of doing things, people start…

— Doug Stanhope

I have always felt that the rise of what became known as alternative comedy was born out of the loins of the alternative theatre…

— Tony Robinson

25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience,…

— Bob Saget

I'm sure when alternative comedy started, before which - Billy Connolly aside - standup was essentially a person being racist and sexist onstage, there…

— Nish Kumar

At first, there was a separation of clubs and sketch comedy. Now there's all kinds of comedy, making us one big happy family.

— Jen Kirkman

There was a sea of change in comedy in the late 1950s and '60s. We were dealing with vignettes as opposed to jokes. We…

— Bob Newhart

People used to make fun of alternative comedy because sometimes it would be someone being funny, and sometimes it was a crazy man with…

— Eugene Mirman

Comedy clubs sharpen a comic, they're like the gym for us, making us stronger, faster, funnier. Without them every comedy show would feel like…

— Nigel Ng

Neck-down comedy was no longer valid after the 1980s alternative comedy revolution. Everything became about the cerebral. And with that came positive things -…

— Lee Mack