Bruce Dessau
- Journalist and reviewer
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Review: Sex Education, Netflix
Sex Education is an odd one. As has already been pointed out elsewhere, this new Netflix series seems to be set in a British school that thinks it is in America. The boys seem to be either jocks or nerds while the girls seem to be good girls or bad girls. You almost expect to see Olivia Newton-John walking past in leather trousers smoking a ciggy.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 17th January 2019Line up revealed for new act of the year 2019
The line-up has been confirmed for the New Act Of The Year 2019, which takes place on February 2.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 17th January 2019Olga Koch review
"If you're not laughing, you're learning," quips Olga Koch early on in Fight. She is correct in her self-criticism. The St Petersburg-born stand-up's debut show offers a unique take on life before and after communism.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 16th January 2019Barry Cryer cancels Slapstick Festival appearance
National comedy treasure Barry Cryer will be missing from the line-up of Bristol's annual Slapstick festival for the first time in 10 years next week after being warned by his doctors against performing so soon after undergoing an operation to repair the hip he broke in a fall in November.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 8th January 2019TV preview: Catastrophe, C4
This is the third sitcom I've reviewed in two days and with the greatest respect to BBC Three's Cuckoo and BBC Two's Semi-Detached, which are both extremely watchable, Catastrophe is by far the best of the trio.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 7th January 2019TV: Semi-Detached, BBC2
After his foray into live sitcom with Not Going Out just before Christmas Lee Mack is back in sitcomland with this all-star fast-paced one-off pilot in which the twist is that everything happens in real time.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 6th January 2019Review: Cuckoo, Series Five, BBC Three
The fifth series of Cuckoo is very much what you might call the WTF series. WTF happen to Dale? And WTF is film superstar Andie MacDowell doing in a BBC Three series set in Lichfield?
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 6th January 2019TV review: Island of Dreams, BBC2
Probably the best joke is the one about Virgin Trains being rubbish. Nice running gag. Or, given that the programme quips that the trains are a bit shit, maybe that should be non-running.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 3rd January 2019Review: Joel Dommett Live, Netflix
He might arguably be the best looking male comedian in the UK but he is certainly not fixated on being cool and he is definitely not afraid to send himself up and admit to behaving like a dick. And if you watch the show you'll see that dicks feature heavily in it.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 3rd January 2019Elf Lyons on having spinal surgery
'After spinal surgery, I have to be very aware of what I can and can't do'.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 3rd January 2019