Bruce Dessau
- Journalist and reviewer
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NonCensored podcast cancels holidays to cover Election
NonCensored, the improvised satirical comedy podcast hosted by Rosie Holt (as Harriet Langley Swindon), Brendan Murphy (as Producer Martin) and Eshaan Akbar (as an awful version of himself), has cancelled its plans to go on hiatus over the summer; instead, it will be releasing DAILY in the week of the election, with new episodes released around lunchtime Monday 1st July-Friday 5th July. And then they'll go on hiatus.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 10th June 2024Inside No. 9, Curse of the Ninth review
What Curse of the Ninth does show is that Shearsmith and Pemberton are never short on ambition and even after all this time still prepared to try something different and never coast.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 5th June 2024Gavin Webster pays tribute to double act partner Eric Scarboro
"It's still feels very surreal I was only talking to him two weeks ago, he had rang me about a book he'd written."
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 4th June 2024My Sexual Abuse: The Sitcom review
O'Sullivan has done something really memorable here, breaking down a taboo using humour.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 29th May 2024Romesh Ranganathan review
Though he's a daytime TV mainstay, stand-up is where Ranganathan truly excels.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 28th May 2024Matt Forde to attempt to interview candidate from all 650 constituencies before polling day
Matt Forde is undertaking an ambitious challenge: attempting to interview a candidate from all 650 constituencies before polling day on the 4th of July. These interviews will be featured on his hit podcast, The Political Party, which will start releasing episodes daily from 3rd June.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 28th May 2024Brighton Fringe: Garry Starr: Classic Penguins review
Garry Starr is an accomplished clown, and Classic Penguins is a masterclass in the serious nature of being extremely silly.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 27th May 2024Speculation grows over Inside No. 9 final episode
Speculation has been growing about the very last episode of Inside No. 9, which is set to be broadcast on Wednesday 13th June. Particularly after it was announced that there would be a special live screening 'viewing party' at which the creators and stars Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton would be present. Tickets went on sale last week for the event at the Vue West End cinema in Leicester Square and quickly sold out.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 27th May 2024Janey review
What we do get here, as well as welcome flashes of her humour, is a strong sense of her toughness, determined to keep gigging unless she is actually hospitalised. Or dead.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 27th May 2024Brighton Festival: Sara Pascoe, Weirdo, Corn Exchange, Brighton Dome
With her intelligent and thoughtful answers there's an accessible and humorous academia-lite in Pascoe's conversation, expected and enjoyed in her previous non fiction books.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 25th May 2024