Ellie White
In the Summer of 2022, DAVE sent a documentary crew to capture life on and off stage at The Moth Club’s alternative comedy night in Hackney, East London. Steve Coogan’s Baby Cow presents Live at the Moth Club - a comedy series from the legendary venue in the heart of Hackney.
It's not often that I watch a sketch show boxed set on iPlayer and immediately want to continue to the second episode, but it happened just now with Ellie and Natasia. Admittedly the episodes are a pocket-sized 15 minutes each, but the hit rate is phenomenally high. If you don't laugh at least six times during the opening show please get someone to check your pulse in case you have snuffed it.
Ellie White co-stars in a new sitcom Semi-Detached, written by David Crow and Oliver Maltman. Each episode plays out in real time and is exactly like 24, except instead of following a government agent as he saves the planet, the series follows a perennial loser called Stuart (Lee Mack) as his life goes down the pan in a suburban cul-de-sac.
The Other One is a comedy about what happens when you discover your dead dad has a secret family and you now have a brand new sister.
It stars Siobhan Finneran (Downton Abbey, Happy Valley), Rebecca Front (The Thick of It, War and Peace), Ellie White (Inside No 9, The Windsors), Lauren Socha (Misfits, Catastrophe) and Amit Shah (Hospital People, Stag, W1A). Read an interview with Ellie White below.
Whether by luck or judgement the BBC is on a roll at the moment with sitcoms featuring strong female casts. Sophie Willan's recent distinctive pilot Alma's Not Normal is going to become a series, but first this pilot, which went out back in 2017 (oh, happy days) on BBC Two gets a full run on BBC One.
It's a really funny sketch show but it doesn't feel very original. Is it OK to say that?
Ellie White and Nastasia Demetriou are both brilliant comedians and rising stars. White – the one that looks a bit like Bob Geldof – has cropped up in programmes including The Windsors, Damned and House of Fools and Demetriou can currently be seen in What We Do In The Shadows and was also in Stath Lets Flats (with brother Jamie, who also pitches up breifly here as a dodgy East European).
The English countryside is a rich source of comedy. Just look at the recent success of BBC3's This Country or Julia Davis' Camping. And this short by comedy regulars Pepperdine and White mines a similar vein of unspoken weirdness always just under the surface.
Sky Arts has announced its latest seasonal collection of comedy shorts. Among those taking part are Morgana Robinson, Sheridan Smith, David Earl, Vicki Pepperdine, Ellie White (pictured) and Joe Wilkinson. Writers include Sharon Horgan and Dan Maier. They will be available on demand this summer from June 28 and then will be broadcast in July. Details below.
David Earl & Joe Wilkinson’s Summer
“Did anyone else not follow a lot of that?” is the key line in the tenth edition of online series 2016 Year Friends, which has just been released. This episode, October, is a not-so-straight horror. Characters come back to life, knives and guns are waved about, there is some screaming and dialogue seems to be go round in a circle. And there is also an obligatory scene in a dark forest.
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