{"id":555,"date":"2019-05-07T11:02:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T10:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/?p=555"},"modified":"2019-09-23T13:03:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T12:03:19","slug":"altcomnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/2019\/05\/07\/altcomnow\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternative Comedy Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>29 April &#8211; 28 June 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/files\/2019\/05\/Brave-New-Comedy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-556 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/files\/2019\/05\/Brave-New-Comedy-1024x779.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/files\/2019\/05\/Brave-New-Comedy-1024x779.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/files\/2019\/05\/Brave-New-Comedy-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/files\/2019\/05\/Brave-New-Comedy-768x584.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/files\/2019\/05\/Brave-New-Comedy-624x475.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Alternative Comedy Now: The Exhibition<\/em> celebrates the 40<sup>th<\/sup> birthday of alternative comedy with an exhibition of material from the British Stand-Up Comedy Archive (BSUCA).<\/p>\n<p>The early summer of 1979 saw the opening of the Comedy Store in Soho and the formation of the group Alternative Cabaret, kick-starting the alternative comedy movement that would revolutionize the style, subject matter and politics of British stand-up.<\/p>\n<p>Using BSUCA\u2019s unrivalled collection of material, including publicity materials, photographs, press coverage, scripts, LPs, and business records, this exhibition tells the story of how alternative comedy grew into a rich and vibrant scene throughout the 1980s, and sowed the seeds for today\u2019s comedy circuit. Presented by Special Collections &amp; Archives and the School of Arts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>29 April &#8211; 28 June 2019 Alternative Comedy Now: The Exhibition celebrates the 40th birthday of alternative comedy with an exhibition of material from the British Stand-Up Comedy Archive (BSUCA). The early summer of 1979 saw the opening of the Comedy Store in Soho and the formation of the group Alternative Cabaret, kick-starting the alternative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53859,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[157292],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53859"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}