Bruce Dessau
- Journalist and reviewer
Press clippings Page 297
Preview: Inside No 9: The Understudy, BBC2
This is very much Pemberton and Shearsmith's instalment and they are both brilliant, with one playing an actor on their way up, the other one on their way down.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 3rd March 2014Ivo Graham, Soho Theatre - comedy review
In his debut show, Binoculars, the posh, boyish 23-year-old extracts plenty of humour, albeit sometimes clichéd, out of his youth.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 28th February 2014Josh Widdicombe interview
When I met up with Josh Widdicombe at the Riverside Studios in February 2014, he was pretty much on the cusp of household name status, thanks to the Channel 4 series The Last Leg, which he was about to film later that day, as well as regular panel show appearances and sell-out tours. He deserves success too - he's an easy-going nice guy, and, most importantly he's very funny - onstage, onscreen, and, hopefully, here in print where he talks about his life, work, influences and much more.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 27th February 2014Mark Thomas interview
Mark Thomas has been winding people up for three decades. He is currently appearing at the Leicester Square Theatre with his new show, 100 Acts of Minor Dissent, which charts his ongoing project of a century of protests, from busking illegally in Camden to putting stickers with slogans where they shouldn't be put.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 27th February 2014Preview: Inside No 9: The Last Gasp
In the thirty-minute slot it doesn't really go anywhere and it resolves itself a little too simplistically. Not horror, not thriller, just a gently disturbing delve into suburban lives thrown briefly off-kilter.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 26th February 2014Preview: Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, BBC Two
Let's hope this series picks up some new fans as well as his usual followers who watch him with religious devotion. Well, I say religious devotion, but, of course, as I said, god doesn't exist.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 25th February 2014Josh Widdicombe interview
With stage, TV and radio gigs, comic Josh Widdicombe is everywhere. Lucky he's so talented.
Bruce Dessau, The Independent, 23rd February 2014Kate Lucas wins Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year
Musical comedian Kate Lucas has won this year's hotly contested Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year competition.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 23rd February 2014Alexei Sayle on 35 Years in Comedy
Anybody interested in recent comedy history should have been at I Say, Alexei Sayle's inaugural "Comedy Conversation" at Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival earlier this week.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 21st February 2014Catriona Knox review
At her best, Catriona Knox comes across as a posher Catherine Tate with added hints of deranged League of Gentlemen darkness.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 20th February 2014