Bruce Dessau
- Journalist and reviewer
Press clippings Page 241
TV 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 2016Just The Tonic takes over booking former Jongleurs acts
Comedy producer Darrell Martin from Just the Tonic is to host comedy nights each weekend at venues in Camden, Birmingham, Reading and Watford that were formerly known as Jongleurs venues.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 22nd 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 2016Podcast review: Book Shambles
Robin Ince and Josie Long must be the two most enthusiastic people in comedy. I'm not sure why they even need a guest on their literary podcast Book Shambles as they can pretty much talk the hind legs off a whole stable of donkeys without any assistance. But the guests are handy as in some ways they rein in the twin-pronged Ince/Long gush-fest and the new instalment is a particularly good one.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 14th February 2016Live review: Richard Herring, Leicester Square Theatre
Richard Herring has been developing his new show, Happy Now? for a while. An embryonic version of it was performed last summer when he did all of his past shows in one epic run at the Leicester Square Theatre. So it's interesting that the show isn't about quite what I initially thought it was going to be about.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 12th February 2016Live Review: Nick Thune, Soho Theatre
His brutal attitude is closest to Rob Delaney.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 4th February 2016Interview: Dave Lamb
I see narrator Dave Lamb has broken cover and is appearing in front of the cameras in Come Dine With Me's Champion of Champions run at the moment. To mark his appearance here is an interview I did with him for the Guardian back in 2010.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 2nd February 2016