Bruce Dessau
- Journalist and reviewer
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TV preview: White Gold, BBC2
The year is 1985. Eight months have passed since Vincent Swan (Ed Westwick) - Essex's premier and most amoral double glazing salesman - teamed up with gangster Ronnie (Lee Ross) and forced his boss Walshy (Nigel Lindsay) to sell Cachet Windows to them for a measly pound coin.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 6th March 2019Whose Line Is It Anyway? returns to Edinburgh Fringe
Classic improvisation show Whose Line Is It Anyway? is coming to the Edinburgh Fringe featuring Marcus Brigstocke and Phill Jupitus alongside original improv legends.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 6th March 2019TV review: Home
Home boasts snappy dialogue and some great jokes, but most of all it oozes humanity, Sami, of course, is just like us.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 5th March 2019TV preview: Derry Girls, C4
This is a show that rarely hits a bum note.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 4th March 2019Review: Fleabag, Series Two, BBC Three/BBC One
So follow that. After the seismic success of the first series of Fleabag the action picks up 371 days and some hours later, with the family gathered for an important celebratory dinner. But this is Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag, it's never going to be an uneventful meal is it, as an early scene in which a bloody nose is wiped makes abundantly clear.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 4th March 2019Mark Thomas creates Museum of Stolen Things for 1 night
Join Mark Thomas for one night only in the Museum of Stolen Things, the first ever pop-up museum of the nicked, at the Musuem of Comedy in Bloomsbury on March 17.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 2nd March 2019Comic Relief Spectacular review
You cannot keep politics out of comedy, but most of the stand-ups at last night's Spectacular tried. Until Sir Lenny Henry commented on the current Stacey Dooley "white saviour" controversy.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 1st March 2019Review: Jerk, BBC Three
BBC Three has come up with a pocket-sized gem in Jerk. Following a one-off pilot in 2016, this is only a four-part series but there's a surprisingly pleasing arc to it as we go from squirming at the main character Tim's behaviour to cheering him on at the end. As they say, we laugh and we learn.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 1st March 2019Myq Kaplan review
All Killing Aside delivers flights of fancy at breakneck speed.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 28th February 2019Stars return to Frog & Bucket to mark 25th birthday
Comedy stars appeared at the Frog & Bucket on Sunday night to mark the Manchester club's 25th birthday.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 27th February 2019