Bruce Dessau
- Journalist and reviewer
Press clippings Page 307
Edinburgh Preview - Richard Herring
After tackling racism, religion and cocks, We're All Going To Die confronts death itself.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 24th July 2013Edinburgh comedy shows - critic's choice
A familiar face from TV hits such as Twenty Twelve and Stand up for the Week, Pascoe has finally found her own voice after resembling a laboratory-created hybrid of Stewart Lee and Sarah Silverman. Always interesting, always philosophical, this could be her breakthrough year.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 23rd July 2013Should stand-up comedians write all their own jokes?
Stewart Lee thinks they should. But plenty of other top comedians are happy to pay writers to come up with gags.
Bruce Dessau, The Guardian, 19th July 2013Edinburgh - A stunt is good but a good show is better
Gareth Morinan is trying to whip up his own "Listingsgate" scandal. Morinan realised that it was cheaper to buy 11 listings entries in the Fringe brochure for the same show than an advert, but his loophole only came to light after the brochure was printed. The funny thing is that Morinan is an advisor to the Fringe, but did not point this wheeze out before the brochure was printed.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 12th July 2013British Summer Time Festival review
It was Russell Kane's dancing synapses that made this final comedy gig of the British Summer Time Festival truly memorable.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 12th July 2013Is Frankie Boyle cleaning up his act?
Were my ears deceiving me? On Tuesday night I turned Radio 4 on at 6.30pm and heard a familiar Scottish accent being unfamiliarly reasonable. Frankie Boyle was one of the guests on the first edition of a new series of It's Not What You Know.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 11th July 2013Alexander Armstrong in cabaret controversy
Alexander Armstrong appears to have put his foot in it with his comments in the Evening Standard yesterday about the return of cabaret.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 4th July 2013Opinion: When is stand-up not stand-up?
During the informal post-bacon sandwich chat the subject came up of John Lloyd. The veteran TV producer who has had a big hand in the likes of Not The Nine O'Clock News, Blackadder, Spitting Image and QI is doing a live show in Edinburgh this year. It is his Edinburgh debut, so should he be eligible for a Best Newcomer Award?
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 4th July 2013Steve Richards review
Convincing impressions pepper the patter, though many, such as Harold Wilson, are so old that Mike Yarwood might have deemed them passé.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 3rd July 2013TV preview: Count Arthur Strong, BBC2
I saw a Tweet recently that asked if Count Arthur Strong was the new Mrs Brown. Having seen the first episode of the new sitcom starring Steve Delaney as befuddled old showbiz never-was Strong I think I can safely say that the answer is "no." It is not as smutty, not as low-brow, not as cliched as Mrs Brown. The only way it might be similar is that it might prove to be as popular as Mrs Brown. Though this time with good reason.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 2nd July 2013