Bruce Dessau
- Journalist and reviewer
Press clippings Page 316
Why the writing was already on the wall for My Family
The BBC's decision to can the Robert Lindsay and Zoe Wanamaker sitcom after a decade has not come before time.
Bruce Dessau, The Guardian, 25th March 2011David Mills crowned New Comedy Act of the Year
The Hackney Empire's annual talent quest went upmarket this year and the hallowed stage of the Barbican was rewarded with a suitably classy line-up.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 21st March 2011Mrs Brown's Boys: mainstream comedy for the middle-aged
Part of me wonders what the BBC was thinking with Mrs Brown's Boys - another part can't help laughing at Brendan O'Carroll's old-fashioned sitcom.
Bruce Dessau, The Guardian, 1st March 2011Feud of the Week: Steve Coogan v Jeremy Clarkson
Coogan says that a lot of comedy is about judgment calls and clearly thinks that Clarkson's comic satnav has lost its direction.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 7th February 2011Andy Gray - If only he was a comedian...
I have spent a number of years around comedians backstage at gigs and in cars and there are plenty who onstage portray a caring, sharing post-feminist image, but among their friends come out with the kind of unreconstructed sexism that makes Andy Gray resemble Germaine Greer.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 31st January 2011Alan Carr's Chatty Man is the right talkshow for now
Who needs the pretentious over-emoting of other chatshow hosts? It may be frivolous, but Alan Carr's innuendo-filled banter works for me.
Bruce Dessau, The Guardian, 13th December 2010Mackenzie Taylor obituary
Comedian who helped to raise awareness of bipolar disorder.
Bruce Dessau, The Guardian, 25th November 2010Jason Manford - Twitter Twit
Jason Manford was certainly mad if he thought that he could send flirty tweets to female fans and never be found out.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 19th November 2010Have you heard the one about vicar's son Miles Jupp?
Forget Frankie Boyle, Russell Brand and the comedy of shock. Stand-up is cleaning up its act and getting politer. A growing band of dissenting comedians out there do not tell smutty stories and crude gags - and the leading light of this new wave of niceness is Miles Jupp, a divinity graduate and son of a United Reform minister.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 9th November 2010Peter Kay live review
There are no truly classic moments until the unashamedly spectacular musical finale in which Kay lives out his rock fantasies. This was undoubtedly a hugely entertaining event, but for sheer mainstream wall-to-wall laughs Michael McIntyre has the edge for a London audience.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 5th November 2010