Bruce Dessau
- Journalist and reviewer
Press clippings Page 204
Adam Kay, comedy review
There's no need for former doctor Adam Kay to go back to the day job, writes Bruce Dessau.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 6th April 2017Review: Catastrophe, series 3, final episode
But the most powerful scenes for me were the very final ones.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 5th April 2017Jim Tavare out of hospital
For those who are not friends with Jim Tavare on Facebook or have not checked his feed lately we are delighted to reported that the comedian/actor is now out of hospital and back home.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 5th April 2017Danny Baker, comedy review
Only the prospect of being fined for overrunning could stop Danny Baker's epic three-hour torrent of pithy yarns.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 3rd April 2017TV review: The Trip To Spain
The big laughs come when they discuss the potentially unfunny topic of death.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 3rd April 2017Review: Comedians In Pubs Talking Comedy, BBC Three
It's cheap television certainly, but for comedy fans cheap television at its best. It only lasts 21 minutes but I could watch this sort of thing for 21 hours.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 2nd April 2017April Fools jokes can rebound on jokers
April Fools jokes can turn and bite the begetter.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 1st April 2017TV preview: Decline And Fall, BBC1
Well we've gone back to the 1970s this week, we might as well go the whole hog and go back to the 1920s with this three-part television adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel. And talking of hogs, we've barely been a minute into the action when the chumps from Oxford's riotous Bollinger Club have lobbed a pig's head out of the window into the quad.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 30th March 2017Sue Perkins to host British Academy Television Awards
Sue Perkins is to host the British Academy Television Awards this year.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 30th March 2017Teenage Cancer Trust Comedy Night, review
The evening was a goody bag of talent, brilliantly compered by Romesh Ranganathan.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 30th March 2017