Steve Bennett (I)
- Journalist and reviewer
Press clippings Page 122
Review: Lee Mack: Hit The Road Mack
Lee Mack, who paces the stage with an impatient urgency, is unapologetic in his showmanship. He's a gag-man, too, with a generous supply of quotable one-liners, normally prefaced by a disingenuous assertion that what you're about to hear is 100 per cent true.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 23rd September 2014Jason Manford episode review
It's all perfectly fine... but 'fine' is something of a comedown for what was, in its heyday, the must-see show of the week.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 22nd September 2014Review: Steve Day Faces The Deaf Sentence
Some asides are enjoyable; especially a story about a Paralympics event that shows Boris Johnson's true colours, and Day has a few nice throwaway lines as he takes us through his story, gaining our sympathy at what he's forced to endure. It's just that the story itself isn't involving enough for the weight he's given it.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 20th September 2014Review: Comedy Knights Fresh Comedian Of 2014
Reviews of Don Tran, Alasdair Beckett-King, Matt Smith, Farrell MacKenzie, Dom Lister, Alexis Wieroniey, Dave Green, Joe Sutherland, Jacob Hawley, Philip Simon and Daryl Perry.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 18th September 2014Cardinal Burns review
Many, many classy delights in a impressive, varied and well-executed show that dares to be different.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 15th September 2014Review: Kevin Bridges at Latitude
Some of this material debuted at the Melbourne comedy festival earlier this year, but it's been tightened, tweaked and expanded â€" all work towards the next tour and DVD, no doubt.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 21st July 2014Review: Elliot Steel at Latitude
It’s a big booking for 17-year-old Elliot Steel, a virtual unknown taking a primetime slot in Latitude’s vast comedy tent.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 21st July 2014Review: Marcel Lucont at Latitude
Alexis Dubus, the man beneath the black rollneck, writes plenty of artful, epigrammic one-liners for his self-centred alter-ago, intolerant of anything that fails to fall outside his narrow focus of how the world should be. And that includes children.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 21st July 2014Review: Cariad Lloyd and Louise Ford at Latitude
There are some splendidly inventive ideas in Cariad Lloyd and Louise Ford’s character show, getting a 40-minute run-through at Latitude before the polished version hits Edinburgh in a few days’ time.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 20th July 2014Review: Tommy Tiernan at Latitude
Tiernan might have dropped more f-bombs in his first five minutes than in Quentin Tarantino’s entire ouvre, but he makes a convincing argument for why swearing is such an implicit, explicit part of the Irish tongue.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 20th July 2014