Bruce Dessau
- Journalist and reviewer
Press clippings Page 303
Review: That Mitchell & Webb Sound
What comes across most strongly is that Mitchell and Webb clearly love what they are doing.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 26th November 2013Opinion: Tunnel club - the sequel
Further to our story last week about the dusting off of some wonderful pictures from the glory days of Malcolm Hardee's Tunnel Club, photographer Bill Alford has been in touch with some more memories of those days and some more info about his involvement. And, best of all, he has given Beyond The Joke permission to run some classic, rarely seen pictures from those legendary gigs. This is Bill's story.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 25th November 2013Opinion: Tunnel visions
Thanks to Nick Revell pointing them out on Twitter, I've been enjoying wading through some lovely old comedy pictures from the mid-1980s taken by Bill Alford. It is appropriate that they come from Malcolm Hardee's Tunnel Club because to me they feel like an episode of Time Tunnel.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 20th November 2013TV preview: Backchat, BBC3
It all works very nicely and while it will do Jack Whitehall's career no harm whatsoever it will also probably work wonders for his father, much in the same way that Harry Enfield's father Edward build up quite a head of steam out of being an irascible old arse when Harry Enfield made it big.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 20th November 2013Monty Python reunion - Will it fly or be a dead parrot?
If they are going to produce new work, however, the hardest challenge will surely be for Cleese, who tended to collaborate with the late Graham Chapman.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 19th November 2013News: Edna Everage opening night
If you judge a show on the number of celebrities you spot in the audience Barry Humphries' opening night at the Palladium must rank as a massive hit.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 16th November 2013Review: Edward Aczel, Soho Theatre
In anti-comedian Aczel's latest gag-free gambit, his skits and routines were so bad they were brilliant.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 13th November 2013Opinion: When a character sticks around too long
I recently read a preview of Ardal O'Hanlon's forthcoming November 21 Richmond Theatre gig in the Richmond & Twickenham Times which began "Ardal O'Hanlon, who you may know as Dougal from Father Ted..." I wondered what O'Hanlon would be thinking if he reads the Richmond & Twickenham Times, as Father Ted finished way back in 1998.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 13th November 2013Opinion: Has Stewart Lee gone too meta this time?
The trouble with Lee is that these days his comedy is so "meta" it is hard to know on what level to take his material.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 10th November 2013Review: Richard Herring, Leicester Square Theatre
Richard Herring employs his trademark mix of high-brow wit and low-brow puerile style to good effect, debunking angelic depictions of heaven and considering immortality.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 8th November 2013