Bruce Dessau
- Journalist and reviewer
Press clippings Page 215
Interview: Rarely Asked Questions - Scott Gibson
Scott Gibson was a very popular winner of the lastminute.com Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer Prize this year. And not just because he is Scottish. Gibson is one of those annoyingly blessed people who can stand onstage and tell a gripping, compelling, funny story about themself as if they are chatting away to mates in the pub. Yet there is depth to his show Life After Death too. It's about mortality, masculinity and much more. We won't give away too much except to say that it is the tale of Gibson going through a major life-altering event.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 16th December 2016Another London venue disappears - The Wibbley Wobbley
The Wibbley Wobbley boat, which was run as a comedy venue on the Thames by the legendary Malcolm Hardee, has been towed away from its moorings in Rotherhithe's Greenland Dock.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 11th December 2016Live review: Fleabag
This was interesting. I've never been to a performance in a theatre that felt so much like a cross between a rock gig by your favourite band and a victory lap of honour. Having gathered various stage prizes Phoebe Waller-Bridge's play was then adapted for BBC3 and will no doubt go on to collect TV awards by the bucketload in the next few months.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 9th December 2016TV Review: David Walliams & Friend
It would be easy to mock the easy game show spoofs and the repetitive one-note Middle Class Jeremy Kyle gag but there is actually a lot to like here.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 9th December 2016Sofie Hagen, comedy review
Sofie Hagen's new show is deeper than her debut but still big on infectious laughs.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 8th December 2016600 Limmy Vines to be screened at film festival
600 vines by playful, provocative Glaswegian comedian Limmy, aka Brian Limond, are to be screened in one evening as part of the forthcoming London Short Film Festival 2017, which runs from 6th-15th January. After the screening there will be an onstage Q&A with fellow Scot Armando Iannucci.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 7th December 2016Dave Johns wins major best actor award
Geordie comedian Dave Johns has won a major award for his role in the Ken Loach film I, Daniel Blake.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 4th December 2016Campaign launched to save Comedy Cafe
A campaign has been launched to save the Comedy Cafe in Shoreditch.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 3rd December 2016Bob Slayer increases Edinburgh Fringe venues
Promoter extraordinaire Bob Slayer has added another venue to his Edinburgh Fringe empire.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 1st December 2016Preview: Walliams & Friend with Harry Enfield, BBC1
After last week's edition in which David Walliams teamed up with youngish turk Jack Whitehall this week he teams up with oldish master Harry Enfield. And not surprisingly, given Enfield's sketch comedy pedigree the result is very good indeed and at some points positively brilliant.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 1st December 2016