Bruce Dessau
- Journalist and reviewer
Press clippings Page 313
Preview: The Week Ahead April 8 - 14
Previews of Harry Hill and Richard Herring.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 8th April 2013Opinion: Is Stand-Up the Toughest Job in the World?
Has anyone tried to attack you while you've been at work recently? Probably not, but a news story today suggests that it happened to Terry Alderton during a gig this week.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 6th April 2013Opinion: Best Sketch Ever?
I looked at the screen and could not believe what I was seeing. It looked like a bunch of bearded Amish folk in the Thames TV studio but it sounded exactly like the Sex Pistols on December 1st 1976.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 4th April 2013Opinion: Is comedy getting too posh?
There is already a sign that comedy is getting posher. Miranda Hart and Jack Whitehall spring to mind, but there are others on the horizon too.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 2nd April 2013Harry Hill, Hammersmith Apollo - comedy review
With his usual oddball gags all present, Harry Hill's first live show for eight years frequently feels like a wonderful out-of-body experience.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 27th March 2013Altitude festival - Izzard in a blizzard
Yet Eddie Izzard, with his long-term political ambitions, is clearly one who has plans to engage with the outside world. That will have to wait though. In the meantime Altitude suggests that he has got his stand-up mojo back.
Bruce Dessau, Chortle, 21st March 2013Kevin Eldon: the bridesmaid becomes a bride
He has worked on virtually every landmark British TV comedy series - and now, at 53, Kevin Eldon is finally getting his own. Bruce Dessau meets the star of It's Kevin
Bruce Dessau, The Guardian, 13th March 2013Review: Patrick Combs
If you like Dave Gorman's docu-comedies, you will enjoy this. The accidental people's hero takes similar delight is leading the audience down unlikely narrative paths, involving movie deals and sex change dogs alongside doddery experts in fiscal law.
Bruce Dessau, 10th March 2013Opinion: Can Frankie Boyle change the record please?
Frankie Boyle says or tweets something about a topical event, a newspaper finds someone offended by it and before you can say "ban this filth" here we go again.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 7th March 2013Review: Simon Munnery, Leicester Square Theatre
The show gets into trickier water elsewhere, but for every bad gag there are five good ones.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 26th February 2013