Tags: Comedian.
Tony Allen (born 4 March 1945) is an English comedian and writer. Best known as one of the original alternative comedians Tony Allen’s artistic career had taken many radical turns before he temporarily abandoned his Speakers’ Corner Full-Frontal Anarchy Platform in May 1979 for the stage of London’s Comedy Store. Two months later he founded Alternative Cabaret with Alexei Sayle and ran a regular Alt Cab Club night in the back bar of the Elgin pub on Ladbroke Grove.