A Nintendo Wii console played a central role in creating comedian Dara O Briain's 'Go 8 Bit'.
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The TV show, which debuted on Dave last night (06.09.16), sees celebrities compete with comedians at video games in front of a studio audience and has been adapted from a successful live show by Steve McNeill and Sam Pamphilion.
Recalling how the show can into existence, Steve shared: "We had three years doing sketch shows up in Edinburgh, which did very well, and then in 2013, we were supposed to be going up again but it got to the deadline and we hadn't written anything.
"So rather than not doing anything we decided to go. If you're a comedian, Edinburgh is a really long month, it can be quite a slog.
"So we thought take my Nintendo Wii up with us, invite comedians along, fill the backstage area with beer, get them all drunk and then get them to give each other grief while they play, and hopefully it'd be funny enough to charge some drunk Scottish people to watch it. And then somehow that became more successful than anything else we've done."
Sam, meanwhile, admitted they never envisioned what the show has eventually become.
He told IBTimes UK: "It definitely wasn't supposed to be what it became.
"We took it up for an excuse, really - we didn't have a show and we did that so we could still be involved in Edinburgh and not feel like we let ourselves down and to have fun. Then it became more popular than all the other things we've worked really hard at."
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