Steve Bennett (I)
- Journalist and reviewer
Press clippings Page 109
Silver Stand-Up 2016 review
This year's final had more of a talent night feel, with many of the over-55s seeming like they were 'giving it a go' rather than looking to make a career of it.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 19th February 2016Nick Revell: Feminist Porno Jihadi review
Nick Revell is definitely on the broadsheet end of the comedy spectrum. His impassioned arguments are long and deep and littered with references to French renaissance satirists and 4th Century theologians.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 19th February 2016Keep Calman Carry On preview
Youth Hostelling with Chris Eubank might not have taken off, but maybe Hill Walking with Muriel Gray will.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 18th February 2016Tanyalee Davis: Actual Size
The gross imagery will stick with you longer than any jokes about the awful situation, but as with this whole hour, it's her devil-may-care attitude and inherent good humour that sells the tale.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 11th February 2016Comedians Boxing review
Blyth is not the obvious place to host one of the comedy events of the year. A slow hour's bus ride north of Newcastle, this former shipbuilding and coal-mining town of 37,000 is now an unexceptional dormitory settlement of pleasant but bland Barratt-style estates. Yet 21 top circuit comics have descended on its sports centre - many more if you count those here to commentate, support, or act as cornermen - for the first ever comedians' boxing evening.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 8th February 2016Tony Law: Frillemorphesis review
The show is a jalopy with a lunatic at the wheel, careening about, forever close to collapse or crash. A wild ride, making the most of the spontaneous unrepeatability of live comedy. Law's a foo in the finest tradition, never really considering the consequences of his action.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 7th February 2016Reeves and Mortimer: Poignant Moments tour review
Not everything works 100 per cent. Though plenty love him, I'm still not convinced by Dr Shakamoto, probably because of that dodgy East Asian accent ('I rive in Reeds') - even though they try to head off such criticism with a preceding sketch in which Lovejoy has an hilariously misjudged Jamaican brogue. But all in this is a wonderful reminder of this way this creative duo forged a unique niche in British comedy. You'll be glad that when it comes to their classic material, they did not let it lie.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 5th February 2016Nick Thune review
Delivered deep and slowly, like an easy-listening radio DJ on the 3am shift, his stories burn slowly, but the fuse is extinguished before it leads to comedic dynamite.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 3rd February 2016An Evening with Brian Pern
As a shared celebration of a musical legend - real or not - An Evening with Brian Pern was an experience not to be missed.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 2nd February 2016Book review: The Actual One, by Isy Suttie
Bridget Jones was never quite like this...
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 29th January 2016