Bruce Dessau
- Journalist and reviewer
Press clippings Page 279
DVD review: Sarah Millican - Home Bird Live
Some live DVDs look suspiciously like the cut-aways to the crowd laughing have been bought as a job lot or found in a skip. Not here. I don't usually comment on the editing in live DVDs but the shots of the Newcastle audience in stitches really show just how funny Millican is and how well she touches a nerve with her fans. Definitely one for your mam this Christmas, whether she gets claggy or not.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 23rd November 2014Opinion: What I won't miss about Lee Evans
The trouble is that his observational humour that was actually quite pioneering back in the late eighties has become mainstream comedy currency. I'm not saying others do his schtick better, but the likes of Peter Kay, Michael McIntyre and Jason Manford all do it just as well. And if you really need someone to do the gags in a working class London accent there's always Micky Flanagan.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 21st November 2014TV Review: Live at the Apollo, BBC1
All delivered the goods. I thought this was a particularly good showcase for Joe Lycett, who is pretty much a mainstream game show host-in-waiting.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 21st November 2014Noel Fielding, Eventim Apollo review
'Pleasingly nutty, utterly childish and executed with vaudevillian glee'.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 19th November 2014Rarely Asked Questions - Ian Stone
Bruce Dessau interviews Ian Stone.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 19th November 2014Shappi Khorsandi, Soho Theatre - comedy review
Shappi Khorsandi's most distinctive material was a series of potent anecdotes about her father, an Iranian satirist living in exile.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 18th November 2014Dave Gorman, Eventim Apollo Hammersmith - comedy review
Dave Gorman celebrates life's ridiculousness and never condemns it.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 17th November 2014Eddie Izzard to headline major Shelter benefit
Eddie Izzard is to headline a one-off benefit for housing and homelessness charity Shelter. Stand up for Shelter will take place on Wednesday, 25 February, 2015 at the Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 14th November 2014Campaign to get Rik Mayall to number one
A campaign has been launched today to get a song recorded by Rik Mayall's spoof heavy metal band Bad News to number one in the run-up to Christmas.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 14th November 2014Ivo Graham, Soho Theatre - comedy review
Ivo Graham's second full-length show, Bow Ties and Johnnies, covers similar coming-of-age terrain to his debut but it is consistently funnier.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 12th November 2014