Moorgate Comedy Club

Tokenhouse Moorgate in association with Nice N' Spiky Comedy present MOORGATE COMEDY CLUB.

Our hit comedy club is back for September!

Friday September 27th featuring top guests:

Kae Kurd - BBC Live At The Apollo, BBC Mock The Week, BBC Apprentice You're Fired

Jacob Hawley - ITV's The Stand Up Sketch Show 

Michelle Shaugnessy - Finalist, Canada's Top Comic Competition 

Toussaint Douglass - DAVE's Hypothetical 

KAE KURD 

Smart, sharp and brilliantly funny, Kae Kurd is recognised as one of the UK’s fastest rising comedy stars, celebrated for creating and curating extensive online content across a range of platforms.

His debut stand up special Kurd Your Enthusiasm received over 200K views on YouTube, with Joe’s Creative Director noting “It’s intriguing – and exciting – that a performer with such a slick mainstream swagger is able to weave so many socio-political issues into his act.”

Kae’s follow up 2021 Spoken Kurd Tour was another total sell out success with his major new UK Tour Kurd Immunity for 2023, culminating at the world-famous London Eventim Apollo.

His extensive list of TV credits include Live at The Apollo (BBC Two), Mock the Week (BBC Two), Celebrity Masterchef (BBC One) and The Apprentice: You’re Fired (BBC Two).

 As a hugely in-demand writer, Kae was worked on a range of impressive projects including Chunkz’s Bad Chefs (ITV2), Munya Chawawa's Race Around Britain (YouTube Originals), Crouchy’s Year Late Euros (BBC One), Celebrity Juice (ITV2), Cunk & Other Humans (BBC Two), Have I Got News For You (BBC Two) and A League of Their Own (Sky One)

He is also the Writer / Voice of ITV’s hit dating format Loaded in Paradise and Hosts hit podcast Ain’t Got A Clue.

JACOB HAWLEY

Jacob Hawley is a multi-award winning stand-up, writer and performer.


He has performed stand-up on Sky Max’s The Russell Howard Hour and ITV X’s Secrets of The Irish Comedy Circuit, as well as appearing on The Stand Up Sketch Show, BBC 3’s hit sitcom Ladhood and multiple BBC Comedy shorts.


He has performed 3 critically acclaimed shows at the Edinburgh Fringe, his first two shows Howl and Faliraki were both translated into BBC Radio 4 Stand Up Specials, with his second special Class Act being named The Guardian’s Pick Of The Week. His third show, Bump, was described by the British Comedy Guide as ‘An impeccable hour of man-and-mic stand up’, awarded 4 star reviews and then toured across the UK to multiple sell out rooms.


He was awarded a Radio Academy award which he accepted at London’s Palladium for Best New Voice for his hit BBC Sounds podcast Jacob Hawley: On Drugs, one of the BBC’s first original podcasts, a show which regularly featured in the iTunes top 12 podcasts and amassed over half a million downloads. The series was followed by two more commissions, Jacob Hawley’s Job Centre and Jacob Hawley: On Love, which both received critical acclaim and hundreds of thousands of downloads.


Away from his podcasts Jacob’s journalism continues in his writing - he writes a monthly column for The Metro and has been published by The Sunday Times amongst other publications. His comedy writing credits include Mock The Week and multiple scripted comedies.


Jacob is currently preparing for his first international tour in 2024, as well as working on multiple TV projects and regularly headlining some of the UK’s biggest comedy clubs.

MICHELLE SHAUGHNESSY

Originally based in Toronto Michelle Shaughnessy fast made a name for herself across North America. She’s had numerous appearances on television and her debut album “You Know What You Did” hit number one on the iTunes comedy charts. Her sophomore album “Botoxic” received a coveted 5 star review from Toronto’s NOW Magazine.

In 2017 she was a finalist in Canada’s “Top Comic” competition and her audition video has since went viral, with 5 million views and climbing.

In 2018 her original scripted pilot was a finalist in Just For Laughs Stand Up and Pitch” sitcom contest.

Michelle is also an accomplished writer and actor with credits that span commercial, variety, scripted and unscripted television. Her acting work has been featured on Hulu, Amazon Prime and Netflix.

Now based in London Michelle is becoming a fan favourite all over the UK. She appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2022 and 2024.  Her show “Be Your Own Daddy” was directed by Adam Hills. The Scotsman called it a “winning debut”.

TOUSSAINT DOUGLASS 

Toussaint Douglass is one of comedy’s most exciting and talked about new names and is already making serious waves across the industry. His innovative brand of stand up mixes the personal with the political, whilst adding a uniquely absurdist slant to brilliant comic effect.

His extensive list of credits include Late Night Mash (DAVE)  Outsiders (DAVE), Hypothetical (DAVE)  Comedians Giving Lectures (FAVE)  Unforgivable (DAVE)  Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled (DAVE)  Funny Festival Live (BBC One)  Question Team (DAVE)  BBC Presents: Stand Up For Live Comedy (BBC Three), The News Quiz (BBC Radio 4) & Dead Ringers (BBC Radio 4).

Over 18's Only.

Artists are correct at time of going to press, if a performer needs to cancel we reserve the right to amend the line up without notice.