Live At The Moth Club features top sketch performers

The Dave channel is to launch a new comedy showcase mixing sketches performed in front of an audience with pre-recorded scenes.

Live At The Moth Club will be filmed at the East London venue and will feature a collective including Stath Lets Flats stars Jamie (pictured) and Natasia Demetriou, Ellie White, Arnab Chanda, Dustin Demri-Burns, Seb Cardinal, and The Pin (Ben Ashenden and Alexander Owen).

It is being made by Steve Coogan’s production company Baby Cow, whose head of development Rupert Majendie has run the off-the-wall live gig Knock2Bag  at the Moth Club since 2007.

He said: 'I’m so, so excited to be bringing together all the talent and fun moments I’ve experienced at The Moth Club as a live show for the last seven years to TV. It’s amazing that Dave is backing an exciting and ambitious ensemble show like this, showcasing the best talent out there. I’m over the moon to be bringing this to screen.'

Baby Cow's chief executive Sarah Monteith called it ‘a collective of top comedy talent – new and established – playing together, bulldozing boundaries and creating a world of fun’.

The show will run for five hour-long episodes – and will feature made-up backstage scenes, which may give it echoes of Amazon Prime Video’s Backstage with Katherine Ryan, which launches today and mixes genuine green-room conversation with stand-up.

Commissioning editor Mark Iddod added: 'Quite simply, the line-up of talent for this show is incredible. Capturing the unpredictable experience of a night out at The Moth Club whilst weaving a narrative around the venue and the people in it, is going to be something quite special. Admittedly it will also be completely bonkers… but special. A special kind of bonkers.'

And Dave channel director Cherie Cunningham added: 'I’m thrilled that we’ve got award-winning comedians and friends, collaborating on a brilliant original and irreverent new show for the channel. This show lends itself to cutting edge comedy and so is set to be a proper comedy treat for Dave audiences.’

Published: 9 Jun 2022