Bruce Dessau
- Journalist and reviewer
Press clippings Page 283
Lee Evans, the O2 - comedy review
In his latest show, Monsters, Lee Evans remains a master of uncomplicated escapist entertainment.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 26th September 2014Greenwich Comedy Festival, National Maritime Museum
The Greenwich Comedy Festival opened with an amusingly offensive set from Stewart Lee and Josie Long delivered a poetically pithy excerpt from her recent show about heartbreak.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 25th September 2014Luisa Omielan, Soho Theatre - comedy review
Luisa Omielan's latest show, Am I Right Ladies?!, is the empowering sequel to her full throttle debut What Would Beyoncé Do?!
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 24th September 2014Angela Barnes interview
Just before the Edinburgh Festival I wrote that Angela Barnes is the best mainstream female comedian I've seen since Sarah Millican. She had a great Edinburgh and I was surprised that she didn't figure in the Foster's Awards shortlists.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 23rd September 2014Andy Zaltzman, Soho Theatre - comedy review
During Andy Zaltzman's enjoyable new show, Satirist for Hire, the frizzy-haired comic fires back answers to audience questions, while onstage his material shuttles between scripted and improvised.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 23rd September 2014Jayde Adams wins Funny Women Awards final
Jayde Adams has won this year's Funny Women Awards Final at the Leicester Square Theatre. Second place went to Aine Gallagher and third place went to Lauren Pattison.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 22nd September 2014Interview: the stars of new sitcom Scrotal Recall
Channel 4's new sitcom Scrotal Recall stars Johnny Flynn as Dylan Witter, who is told that he has chlamydia and has to track down his previous sexual partners. It is written by Tom Edge of YouTube superstars The Midnight Beast and is, erm, transmitted from October 2. Dylan's mates Evie and Luke are played by Antonia Thomas and Daniel Ings. In this interview they talk about the perils of corpsing, the atmosphere on set plus the baking of rock'n'roll pies.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 20th September 2014New interview: Doc Brown
This interview is the first in a series which I've dubbed RAQS. Rather than frequently asked questions these are rarely asked questions. The performer might choose not to answer some, but the answers they do provide are pretty revealing and also entertaining. As is very much the case here.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 19th September 2014New interview: ventriloquist Paul Zerdin
Paul Zerdin is one of the UK's top ventriloquists. He has entertained the troops, sold out at the Edinburgh Festival and Las Vegas and appeared on the Royal Variety Performance.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 11th September 2014Opinion: Janey Godley on Swearing
Does my swearing sound worse because I am a working class Scottish woman? If I was an Oxbridge graduate swearing onstage would it be seen as 'urban and gritty' like a hipster getting angry at a flat tyre but in my accent does it sound really harsh and filthy and all you hear is a slovenly washer woman taking us back years with her filthy language?
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 10th September 2014