Bruce Dessau
- Journalist and reviewer
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Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2019: best newcomer predictions
New sponsor, new comedy! Digital TV channel Dave is sponsoring the Edinburgh Comedy Awards for the first time this year. So they, as well as the rest of us hungry humour vampires, must be on the look out for new comedy blood.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 12th August 2019TV preview: This Way Up, C4
Don't compare This Way Up to anything else, it is a thing of fragile beauty out there on its own.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 7th August 2019Sam Morrison interview
American comedian Sam Morrison's speciality is finding hilarity in the awkward adventures of being a closeted gay man...
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 5th August 2019Fringe interview: rarely asked questions - Phil Nichol
There are Edinburgh Fringe legends and then there is Phil Nichol.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 4th August 2019Fringe interview: rarely asked questions - Kate Lucas
This year she returns with a show that explores consumerism.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 3rd August 2019Interview: rarely asked questions - Steve N Allen
In a time when you can't do right for doing wrong, Steve N Allen, best known for his smart-suited, sharp-tongued regular appearances on BBC Two's Mash Report, takes a look at how hard it is to be better in his Edinburgh show. When you want to be PC, right on or woke, it can be tough. Be better than an angry Twitter egg. Be better than you.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 2nd August 2019Fringe interview: Rarely Asked Questions - Glenn Moore
Glenn Moore returns to the Edinburgh Fringe this year after bagging an Edinburgh Comedy Award nomination in 2018.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 31st July 2019Preview: The South Bank Show - Shearsmith & Pemberton
Receiving the full-length documentary treatment is certainly an accolade for Inside No 9 creators Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton. The challenge for Melvyn Bragg and the makers is how to condense what is now a pretty lengthy career into a single one-hour (including ads) programme.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 30th July 2019Edinburgh preview: Returning Champions
It's hard to stay away from Edinburgh whether you are new to the comedy game or an old hand. This year there are a number of brilliant comedians coming back who have won the Edinburgh Comedy Award, best known as the Perrier but now sponsored by digital channel Dave. You can only win the top award once and there are certainly easier ways to make money, so why come back? It must be for the sheer fun and the incredible buzz of the Fringe.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 29th July 2019Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian Of The Year results
David Bawden has been crowned Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian of the Year 2019.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 28th July 2019