Comedy: Late Night Gimp Fight at Wimbledon Studio (From Richmond and Twickenham Times)

Comedy: Late Night Gimp Fight at Wimbledon Studio

8:50am Thursday 11th June 2009 in

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It's amazing to think that until eight guys met at Edinburgh Festival last summer no-one had ever thought of performing a gimp-based sketch show.

Now reduced to five those guys have changed all that with Late Night Gimp Fight, something they proudly label as the world's first sketch show based on gimps - well as far as they know anyway.

Don't be scared into thinking it's all leather masks, whips and fetish parties though, far from it in fact.

"Each show is an hour of fast-paced sketches and there's some music sets too," said David Moon, who will be performing in his home town when the show comes to Wimbledon Studio on Friday week.

"Wimbledon Theatre and Polka were very important reference points to me growing up and it will be a very proud moment when the lights go up."

David Moon

"We have this tongue in cheek use of gimps in a comedic way and for family friendly purposes it's obviously very light-hearted.

"We all met during the Edinburgh festival when we were in separate shows but all five of us wanting to be performing comedy down the line so we had a meeting in a pub and formed a sketch show group.

"That was in November last year and since then we have done a new show every month working up new material for Edinburgh and Wimbledon is a fundraiser for that."

Following the disastrous efforts of James Corden and Matt Horne to move into sketch show comedy this year, the genre has taken a bit of a bashing but Moon was confident there was room for it still.

"I would have said there was," he says.

"It's taken a bit of a battering in the public eye on the TV with the Horne and Corden Show which divided people but there is definitely room for it in theatre.

"Once you get in the sketch group environment it's a very supportive environment.

"It's not like a competition and most sketch groups have their own night and invite other sketch groups to perform at them."

Moon, 24, lived just off The Ridgway in Wimbledon for 22 years and went to Rokeby School in Kingston but has never been on stage at Wimbledon Theatre before.

"It's going to be my first ever performance in Wimbledon," he says.

"Wimbledon Theatre and Polka were very important reference points to me growing up and it will be a very proud moment when the lights go up."

Late Night Gimp Fight, Wimbledon Studio, The Broadway, June 19, 7.30pm, £10. Call 0844 871 7615 or visit ambassadortickets.com.