Bruce Dessau
- Journalist and reviewer
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Boby Mair offering free tickets to adopted people
Comedian Bobby Mair is offering free tickets to his touring show to anybody who has been adopted.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 25th January 2018Review: Robert Newman, Soho Theatre
Philosophy seems to be a suitable subject for comedy at the moment. Ethical issues have been one of the strands of the brilliant Netflix series The Good Place and now here comes Robert Newman with his latest excellently titled show, Total Eclipse of Descartes.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 25th January 2018Flo & Joan: We find a lot of music inherently funny
You've probably seen musical comedy duo Flo & Joan without realising it. They haven't been on TV much yet but they've appeared countless times between programmes as the deadpan voices and faces of the current advertising campaign for Nationwide Building Society.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 25th January 2018Camp Bestival announces comedy line-up
Camp Bestival has announced its 2018 comedy line-up. Sean Lock, Dave Johns and Andrew Maxwell join Simple Minds, Rick Astley & Clean Bandit, with DJs and live acts Sara Cox, Shed Seven, Tokio Myers, Declan McKenna and many, many more at Lulworth Castle this July.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 25th January 2018Review: Robert Newman, Soho Theatre
Philosophy seems to be a suitable subject for comedy at the moment.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 25th January 2018Josie Long's feature debut to premiere im Glasgow
Josie Long's debut feature film as writer and lead actor is to have its first public screening at the Glasgow Film Festival.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 24th January 2018Comedy fans - scientists need you!
Comedy fans are being invited to take part in a unique experiment delving into the science of laughter.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 23rd January 2018Jim Tavare to tell story of car accident at Fringe
Comedian and Harry Potter star Jim Tavare is returning to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this August to tell the story of the car accident in California last year which nearly killed him.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 23rd January 2018Why I hate (being part of) audience participation
Adam Riches brings his acclaimed Edinburgh show, Inane Chicanery, to the Soho Theatre this week. Riches is famous, among other things, for getting members of his audience up onstage to play an integral part in his sketches feeding him fruit juice or taking part in an impromptu hair-cutting session. It can be seat-of-your-pants stuff in numerous senses. You never know quite how far he will push things and for many, including me, you can never quite unclench your buttocks during his set for fear that you are about to be selected.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 22nd January 2018Hannah Gadsby, comedy review
Bombshell set sends comic out on a high.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 22nd January 2018