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Originally Posted by bytheriver
...Alternative Comedy refers to a specific comedy scene in the early eighties (Ben Elton, Alexie Sayle, Ade Edmondon and basically every one associated with the Young Ones and Not the Nine O Clock News) it was more 'anarchic' surreal, confrontational, and stupid than what went before with lots of jokes about Margaret Thatcher, or so I've read...
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'Thatch' was a frequent target, it's true. t was a dood time for comedy, especially stand-up, but wha it inspired afterwards (and what it's practitioners went on to do) was more sketch (and sometimes sitcom) oriented.
The Young Ones, apart from being one of the all-time top three sitcoms, helped to give birth to so many comedy careers, it defies belief: Smith and Jones, Hale and PAce, Fry and Laurie (hurrah!), French and Saunders, Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondason, Ben Elton, Lenny Henry, Alexei Sayle, and many many more. The number of cameo appearances from people who went on to further success in the comedy world is astonishing.