It was founded by John-Luke Roberts and Thom Tuck at the New Red Lion Theatre[1] in Islington, London.
There are a group of regular comedians, referred to as "The Board", including William Andrews, Steve Pretty, Tom Bell, Bridget Christie, Alexis Dubus, Nadia Kamil, Josie Long, Sara Pascoe, Isy Suttie and Ben Target.
[citation needed] The ACMS has developed a number of in-jokes, such as a list of permitted heckles and a repeated call and response with the audience.
[citation needed] The show has been filmed as a series of Comedy Blaps for Channel 4, which were released in 2013.
[7] In The Guardian in 2016, Simon Munnery described ACMS as keeping alternative comedy alive, even as they claim to memorialise it.