Steve Bennett (I)
- Journalist and reviewer
Press clippings Page 125
Review: Felicity Ward at Latitude
Self-deprecation is her strongest suit, gurning away to show how she can pull off a great ugly face â€" projected larger than life on the big-screens either side of the stage.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 18th July 2014Rhys Darby review
Mr Adventure is the closest Rhys Darby has come to straight stand-up for some time, putting his overt physicality and silly sound effects to the background in favour of a handful of stories from real life, even if they are given a fantastical spin for good, comic measure.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 12th July 2014Gig review: Tim Minchin
This was not an easy crowd to win over, outdoors and in pretty much broad daylight. Even veteran compere Jasper Carrott struggled a bit.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 10th July 2014Monty Python Live review
No matter how jaded or cynical, the opening to I'm A Lumberjack, Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life, Nudge Nudge Wink Wink and even the Liberty Bell theme tune itself can't help but send a shiver down the spine of anyone who knows about these things.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 1st July 2014Mrs Browns' Boys: D'Movie review
It's not just the jokes that are cheap, the sentimentality is, too.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 28th June 2014Dawn French: 30 Million Minutes review
Words like 'empowering' and 'inspirational' could so easily be bandied about here; or even more unkind ones such as 'mawkish' and 'sentimental'. Yet these adjectives would be as inaccurate as they are simplistic.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 26th June 2014Radio review: Blocked
Frankie Boyle has proved too controversial for supposedly edgy late-night TV shows, so it could come as a surprise that his BBC comeback comes via middle-class Radio 4, albeit as a writer rather than a performer.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 6th June 2014Judging a book by its cover
A review of the brochure from the 'big four' venues. "If we can judge this booklet by its cover, we'd decide that it fails every basic instinct of layout, failing to say what it represents, but instead screaming 'compromised by committee'."
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 14th May 2014Marcus Brigstocke review
Tales of peculiar heckles and a family safari where consequences of the local diet were a greater risk than any big beast, pave the way for the personal stories promised in the blurb, which hold the most interesting.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 14th May 2014Totally Tom in Waiting For Godot review
There are moments of pure physical pantomime as they monkey around, killing time, while their rhythms and emphasis wring laughs out of the script that Beckett may never have envisaged.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 13th May 2014