The phrase "alternative jokes" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to jokes that are unconventional or different from the mainstream style of humor.
Example: "During the comedy night, the comedian focused on alternative jokes that challenged traditional punchlines."
Alternatives: "unconventional humor" or "offbeat jokes".
High-powered advisers to Mr. Bloomberg — and even the mayor himself — have chewed over alternatives, joked about dream candidates and even floated the possibility of a mayoral run to at least five boldface figures, highlighting their worry that City Hall could fall into less nimble hands.
The only option available is to embrace the alternative: keep joking with your friends, maintain the banter levels, swapping smutty jokes and stories - literally forcing yourself to keep smiling.
"Beats the alternative," he joked.
Critics have labelled The Alternative a joke and attacked its policies for being unsubstantiated and fanciful – one of its members floated the idea of solar-powered cycling pipelines that would generate tailwind – but the party has struck a rich vein among disillusioned voters who find the old parties closely aligned on core issues and lacking ambition.
In the sports world, as Deadspin has pointed out, various N.B.A. coaches have been making a version of the same "alternative-fact" joke with reporters.
The difference lay in the ownership of jokes: alternative comedians wrote their own, and fights would break out if another comic tried to steal one; while mainstream comedians shared material.
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After stints in Boston and San Francisco, Maron relocated in 1993 to New York City, where he became a staple of the nascent alternative (heady, non-joke-based) comedy scene.
Instead of displaying the eccentricity that led The Culture Show to dub her "the world's most alternative mainstream artist", she joked with fellow guests June Brown and Jude Law as if she were just Stefani Germanotta from New York City.
It makes as much sense as any plot would which involved the likes of warring gods, three or four alternative earths, a corrupt joke-Irish property developer, a complex battle involving a cheese-based deity and a young Vogon damned by the possession of aesthetic sense and, worse, a conscience.
