Steve Bennett (I)
- Journalist and reviewer
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Kevin Bridges: The Overdue Catch-Up
While Overdue Catch Up is all about him growing as a person, we should also acknowledge how he's growing as a comedian, taking on bigger issues without losing sight of the funny that defines his every anecdote.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 7th October 2022Funny Women final 2022
It was a secret vote from industry judges, but Lorna Rose Treen's victory in this year's Funny Women final must surely have been a landslide.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 3rd October 2022Daniel Howell: We Are All Doomed review
If you're a comedy fan who's never previously encountered Howell, and wondering if the guy who's filling out the London Palladium - twice - is a stand-up wunderkind you need to put on your radar... well, the answer's no. But you can't begrudge his success in giving a new generation exactly what they want, and probably need.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 29th September 2022Stewart Lee: Basic Lee review
It's a reviewers' cliché to call something a masterclass of comedy, but Stewart Lee's latest show is almost literally that, as he gives what can loosely be described as a lecture in the artform: talking about writing material in part one, performing it in part two.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 28th September 2022The Train review
The Train is sort of an anti-Snowpiercer, where nothing much happens at all.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 27th September 2022Am I Being Unreasonable? review
It must have seemed well-nigh impossible for Daisy May Cooper to follow up a sleeper hit like This Country, which drew so heavily on her West Country upbringing with her brother Charlie. But she's found fertile new territory with the new BBC comedy-drama-thriller Am I Being Unreasonable?
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 25th September 2022Nailing It by Rich Hall review
The situations and the people he encounters are almost all odd, but Hall celebrates that, even when he doesn't quite know what to make of them. Any reader of Nailing It will likewise embrace the comic's easy-going eccentricities.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 23rd September 2022Kim Noble: Lullaby For Scavengers review
Seven years in the making, Kim Noble's new show offers an unflinching embrace of what most people would find repulsive. It is repugnant, morbid and morally dubious - yet if you have the stomach for it, Lullaby For Scavengers as remarkable as it is confronting.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 22nd September 2022From The Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast Series 2 review
For all the irony, podcasting may well be the medium Steve Coogan's mild-mannered monster is made for, giving him free rein to voice his thoughts, however vacuous, petty or accidentally damning.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 22nd September 2022Cunk On Earth review
In the past couple of weeks, there has been no shortage of serious people on television screens, speaking with solemnity and great authority about any number of 'facts' they cannot possibly know - hoping their confidence will hide the ignorance behind their conjecture. So the scene is set for the return of the quintessential idiot with an undeserved platform, Philomena Cunk.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 20th September 2022