Bruce Dessau
- Journalist and reviewer
Press clippings Page 269
Second posthumous Rik Mayall project in pipeline
Following our story yesterday that Rik Mayall's last film performance in The Escape is to get a release in Holland in April, it has emerged that there is a second unreleased film featuring Mayall, entitled One By One, which claims to be his last British feature film and has a confirmed UK release date. It will be screened from this June.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 30th March 2015Rik Mayall's final performance to be released
The film featuring Rik Mayall's final performance is to feature a special dedication to him.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 29th March 2015Simon Amstell, Shepherd's Bush Empire - comedy review
Amstell's show is all about one skinny man's search for spiritual contentment - and it makes for a hilarious show, says Bruce Dessau.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 27th March 2015Opinion: Russell Howard 1 Stewart Lee 0
An article about how Stewart Lee's attempts on televising more alternative comedy on Comedy Central are losing out to more mainstream comics like Russell Howard.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 27th March 2015Rarely Asked Questions - Tiernan Douieb
If anyone out there thinks comedians have an easy life, frittering away their days on Twitter and working for just an hour in the evening a few days a week, meet Tiernan Douieb.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 26th March 2015Teenage Cancer Trust: Kevin Bridges and Guests, review
Lean, keen and assured Bridges sets up a night of contrasting comedy in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 25th March 2015Michael Palin and Terry Jones reunite for podcast
Former Monty Python stars Michael Palin and Terry Jones will be reuniting to talk about their lengthy careers. They are being interviewed by comedy historian Robert Ross for his podcast Robert Ross Requests The Pleasure at the Museum of Comedy in London on March 29.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 25th March 2015TV review: Ross Noble: Freewheeling, Dave
Every comedian gets the TV series they deserve. Grumpy stand-ups get sitcoms in which they play grumpy versions of themselves. Snappy stand-ups get shiny floor comedies. And so master improvisor Ross Noble, who goes onstage not really knowing what is going to happen, gets Freewheeling, literally a comedy roadshow - he hits the tarmac on his motorbike in search of fun, with fans on Twitter pointing him in various unexpected directions.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 24th March 2015Michael Legged pulls out of gig because of UKIP
Michael Legge has pulled out of a festival booking after he discovered that a UKIP representative would also be at the same event. UKIP's invite has since been withdrawn.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 22nd March 2015Opinion: Comedy - as long as the price is right
I went to Angel Comedy Club in Islington last Thursday night because I'd heard Nick Helm was on. I didn't arrange to be on the guest list, I just turned up as a punter. And like a punter I was turned away because the gig was full.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 22nd March 2015