The ALTdot Comedy Lounge is a cabaret-style

alternative comedy Alternative comedy is a term coined in the 1980s for a style of comedy that makes a conscious break with the mainstream comedic style of an era. The phrase has had different connotations in different contexts: in the UK, it was used to describe ...

show in

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, Canada. For over 21 years, the ALTdot Comedy Lounge has hosted alternative, non-traditional and new material, with drop-in guests from around the world. It runs every Monday at

The Rivoli The Rivoli is a bar, restaurant and performance space, established in 1982, on Queen Street West in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The club originally earned a reputation as one of Canada's hippest music clubs, and many major Canadian comedy and mus ...

. The show was a product of the alternative comedy movement of the late 1990s, such as Largo and Uncabaret in Los Angeles and

Luna Lounge Luna Lounge was a bar and music club located at 171 Ludlow Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Opened in 1995 by Dianne Galliano and Robert Sacher, it was a popular venue for local bands and stand-up comics (the rock band Interpol played there ...

in New York.

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had a Rivoli residency show on Mondays in the 1990s. In 2005 a Tuesday show,

The Sketch Comedy Lounge The ALTdot Comedy Lounge is a cabaret-style alternative comedy show in Toronto, Canada. For over 21 years, the ALTdot Comedy Lounge has hosted alternative, non-traditional and new material, with drop-in guests from around the world. It runs every ...

, was added and ran until 2011. The first Tuesday of every month there is an ALTdot Open Mic where the producer can see some emerging comedians showcase and one comic gets a spot on a future ALTdot. The show is produced by

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