Live at the Moth Club

Televised stand-up is usually awful to me now but this was so much funnier and more endearing than i expected. Totally hilarious and out of left field. Loved it, upset its reception hasnt landed as deserved. Sort of a combination sketch and stand-up show. Star-studded too! I watched it all through in one go. If you like Ellie White & Natasia Demetriou, enjoy the humour of Mindy Kaling's Four Weddings and a Funeral, BBC Ghosts, Taskmaster, What We Do In The Shadows, Stath lets flats etc this will appeal to you. Not so much if you're more into the frenetic Michael McIntyre flapping and bounding from side to side at the Apollo brand of comedy.

I would happily watch 'somewhat unknown comedians' if they were either ( a ) only SOMEWHAT unknown, or ( b ) comedians. I've persevered with this in the hope that there will, at some point, be some comedy involved. 'Dry' comedy would be fine; this is not 'dry', it's arid. Desolate. Barren.

Even that would be bearable if the 'framing' story or it's characters were even vaguely funny. As one previous reviewer mentioned, Mark Heap can usually draw humour from any situation; this one has defeated even him ... and God knows, if it's reliant on the other regulars for it's survival, I really hope no-one has given up their day jobs. In fact, I really hope they have day jobs.

If you like humour, watch something humorous. If you like dry humour, watch something drily humorous. If you really really like things that are less funny than a bad middle-school end-of-term production written by the least funny person in the school and featuring characters who are about as funny as gangrene - month-old gangrene at that - watch this show.

A genuinely new feeling spin on the mockumentary style comedy show.

There are scripted parts with known faces playing characters but the show is interspersed with actual stand up sets from up and coming comedians and headlined by a big name (Phil Wang in the first episode!) The up and comers range from recognizable to brand new which I always enjoy and sometimes they are woven into the stripted story lines.

The characters are interesting and different from the usual roles you see a lot of these actors in. The comedy sets are hit or miss of course depending on who is on stage but overall fantastic.

Definitely recommend a watch!

All throughout this strange unbalanced series I was struggling to put my finger on it, right up until the last episode where I suddenly proclaimed "Monkey Trousers!". Yes, the star-studded ITV vehicle that seemed to feature every contemporary comedy person under the sun but didn't amount to much. Moth Club is definitely this comedy generation's equivalent. It's rammed to the brim with the most talented comedy folk from the "Stath era" of UK comedy, but it's not enough of a logical format to really ever coalesce into shape. It's not quite a mockumentary, not quite a sketch show, not quite a stand-up showcase. That being said, I love so many of the people here that most episodes just felt like a lovely smorgasbord of treats.

If like me you're missing Staf Let's Flats this show fills the hole nicely whilst shining a light on somewhat "unknown" comedians.

This kind of dry humour isn't for everyone and you really have to 'get' the comedy style to enjoy it. Everyone should know this going in and probably not watch it if you don't like the genre, you wouldn't watch a horror if you didn't like horror?

Hoping that Katy Wix makes an appearance at some point in the series because this gang of comedians do dry humour so well.

My true rating would probably be about a 7 or 8 but as this show seems to be getting unreasonably low ratings from people that neither enjoy or get this style of comedy I'm putting 10.