More Alternative Comedy Experiences for the UK

The Alternative Comedy Experience, Comedy Central UK’s stand-up show, is to return featuring a variety of new and established names from the stand up circuit.

The Alternative Comedy Experience is the only show of its kind on UK television, taking a behind the scenes look at the enduringly popular, grass-roots stand up scene and featuring performances from some of the best genre-busting, cult-comedy performers hand picked by Comedy Central UK, including internationally acclaimed, award-winning talent.

Jill Offman, SVP & Managing Director, Comedy Central UK, says: “As the UK’s biggest supporter of live British comedy, it is imperative that we showcase the thriving and varied live comedy scene that exists in the UK. We are thrilled that Stewart Lee will be back to give viewers more insight into the world of stand-up featuring some amazing and innovative talent.”

Stewart Lee will once again collaborate on the show as an executive producer and talent curator. Lee will also provide exclusive behind-the-scenes interviews with the performers, to uncover the inspiration behind their unique stand-up acts, which will be interspersed with their specially filmed live performances.

Ten live shows will take place from the 8th of July over one week at the legendary Stand Comedy Club in Edinburgh and will be filmed ‘as live’ to feature in the new series due for transmission on Comedy Central UK in early 2014.

Colin Dench, creator and producer of the series adds: “We are delighted at how well received the show has been, both by our TV audience and the comedy fraternity as a whole. To be given the opportunity by Comedy Central to bring such a credible and uniquely funny bunch of comedy misfits together on the same bill for a TV series is a real thrill.”

Alternative Comedy Experience is just one of the wide variety of titter-making programmes on Comedy Central UK’s mix of live and scripted, US and UK comedy, and of the channel’s growing slate of original, UK commissions which includes the forthcoming clip based, sketch show, Seann Walsh World and sitcom, Big Bad World.