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Comedy
Comedy variety series, showcasing cinematic sketches and live performances from Hackney's Moth Club.
When Phil Wang has an issue with the gig being filmed, Ellen has to find a solution. George and Freddie, the resident techie, jump at the opportunity to get creatively involved.
Moth Club regulars Cardinal Burns, Seb and Dustin, have had a blazing row and refuse to go on stage as a duo. George feels like they might reconcile and bond if they do an escape room together, so he builds them one in the club. Things don't go entirely to plan and when an unfortunate incident befalls headliner Tom Davis, an unlikely hero emerges in City Boy.
It's at least 25 years since George has had the electrics checked so it does look like a catastrophic accident waiting to happen. While George and Ellen muddle through, keeping lights switched off and asking the audience not to use the hand dryers, the rest of the gang must also get creative.
Ellen has to move the green room downstairs so it's accessible for headliner, Tim Renkow, but George hasn't got the memo. He's given the space to the bingo club. They try and share but tensions are high and it might just kick off. On stage tonight are host William Stone, Michael Odewale, Katy Wix, Ele Mckenzie and Tim Renkow.
An estate agent tells George that selling up would make him enormously wealthy - it looks like the writing's on the wall, but can the gang do anything about it?
Ellen
George
Denzel
Freddie
Marcus Geason
Self - MC
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Kings of Comedy was a reality television series broadcast made by Endemol for Channel 4. The show was presented by Russell Brand and narrated by Matthew Rudge. The premise was that eight comics lived in a Big Brother-style house to try to determine whether old-school comics or the newer generation are best. The winner got the chance to make his own pilot show.
Fist of Fun was a British comedy television and radio programme, written by and starring Lee and Herring. A lot of the show's comic material was adapted from Lee and Herring's radio programme Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World. Each episode of Fist of Fun featured several disparate sketches and situations. Fist of Fun began as a BBC Radio 1 series in 1993, before becoming commissioned as a television series on BBC Two in early 1995. It was broadcast at 9pm on Tuesday nights, and was successful, but not a major ratings-winner. The second series was aired on Friday nights, and although its ratings were relatively good, the show suffered from a lack of preparation and poor promotion. The show was not given a third series, and Lee and Herring went on to write This Morning with Richard Not Judy, for BBC Two. Many other comedians who appeared in the series went on to fame themselves, including Kevin Eldon, Peter Baynham, Ronni Ancona, Alistair McGowan, Al Murray, John Thomson, Rebecca Front, Mel Giedroyc, Sue Perkins, Ben Moor and Sally Phillips.
