Simon Munnery: 'Is alternative comedy over? Well, yes and no…'
As Edinburgh fills with a new generation of comics, the veteran standup looks back at the cabaret nights that started a revolution Related: How Rik Mayall and his alternative-comedy generation changed UK standup for ever Legend has it that Tony Allen coined the phrase "alternative comedy" sometime in the 80s, although Malcolm Hardee claimed to have done so in '79. What it was when it started I know not but when I got…