Bruce Dessau
- Journalist and reviewer
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Felicity Ward, comedy review
Gutbustingly funny... and very personal.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 4th March 2016Latitude line-up announced
The first batch of names for this year's Latitude Festival has been announced today.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 3rd March 2016Darius Davies pranks BBC
Comedian Darius Davies found himself interviewed by BBC News this week about witnessing a drunken in-flight incident. Except that he did not witness it.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 2nd March 2016Nina Conti, comedy review
Nina Conti blurs the line between between puppet and puppet-meister with her co-star Monkey.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 1st March 2016Chris Ramsey in police mistaken identity scare
Chris Ramsey was cuffed in his hotel room last night in a case of mistaken identity.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 29th February 2016TV preview: Stag, BBC2
I don't really need to tell you much about comedy chiller Stag. The cast should be enough of a selling point. Jim Howick, Reece Shearsmith, Rufus Jones and Tim Key as well as Stephen Campbell Moore, James Cosmo and Pilou Asbaek. If you don't know some of the names you'll certainly know the faces.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 27th February 2016TV review: Hospital People, BBC1
A new series of pilots kicks off with a medical comedy as sharp as a scalpel, brutally putting Jeremy Hunt and the NHS under the microscope. Actually no. Hospital People is more Carry On Nurse without the nurses and slightly misses a trick by not being particularly political. It is set in a fictional hospital and does at least touch on creeping NHS privatisation, but the main laughs are broad. And there are plenty of them.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 26th February 2016Interview: rarely asked questions - Sarah Callaghan
I was going to say that Sarah Callaghan is one of comedy's best kept secrets, but she isn't really that much of a secret. In 2015 she was nominated for the Malcolm Hardee 'Act Most Likely To Make A Million Quid' award and she has also been a finalist in the Funny Women and Leicester Square Theatre New Act Competitions.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 25th February 2016Baconface returns with Global Globules music show
Legendary comedian Baconface is to return to the UK to front a radio show.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 24th February 2016Lolly Adefope, comedy review: hugely entertaining
One of the many strengths in Lolly Adefope's debut is that as well as humour there is pathos too, says Bruce Dessau.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 22nd February 2016