Bruce Dessau
- Journalist and reviewer
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Edinburgh Comedy Awards Results - right or wrong?
So after all the huffing and puffing and heated discussion Bridget Christie won the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Award this afternoon. There had been rumours that she might not accept the award but, apart from calling special guest Steve Coogan a "prick" for dumping his girlfriend, she was on her best behaviour.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 24th August 2013The Foster's Comedy Award shortlist: From O2 to Fringe?
Interesting Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards shortlist just announced. Bridget Christie, Carl Donnelly, James Acaster, Max & Ivan, Mike Wozniak, Nick Helm and Seann Walsh are all in the running for the £10,000 prize to be handed out by Steve Coogan on Saturday. I love the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards and this year's panel decision looks like being an intriguing one.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 21st August 2013Daniel Kitson teams up with Tim Key for new show
Daniel Kitson is to team up with Tim Key for his new show this Autumn at the Manchester Royal Exchange. The show will be called Tree and is written and directed by Kitson.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 20th August 2013Opinion: Edfringe 2013 - The year of stand-up angst?
Best shows of Week One? No contest really. David Baddiel and Bridget Christie.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 10th August 2013If you want to laugh watch a comedian, not a pop star
Do you want conclusive proof that a journalist will do anything to avoid proper work? I even sat down this morning and watched the brief clip of Geri Halliwell in the new sitcom she is working on, entitled Life Sucks, in which, according to a spokesman quoted in The Sun, "She laughs gamely at herself and her fame."
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 26th July 2013Edinburgh 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 2013