Steve Bennett (I)
- Journalist and reviewer
Press clippings Page 31
Alan Carr: Regional Trinket review
Unconvincingly, he professes to hate being camp - but he's so damn good at it, buoying the audience on his exaggerated over-reactions to the most trivial of concerns.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 26th October 2021The Outlaws review
It's a wonder no one thought of this before. Community service is a perfect premise for a sitcom: an opportunity to mix up characters from all walks of life in a situation they can't get out of... at least not until their sentences are served.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 25th October 2021Lasties review
Lasties offers a congenial slice of only slightly exaggerated realism, with delightfully surreal touches, all emerging from loving character portraits of simple men with simple pleasures. It's a pleasure drinking with them...
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 21st October 2021Liz Kingsman: One Woman Show review
One-Woman Show is an exquisite parody of the phenomenon that is Fleabag. But to put it so simply does scant justice to the ingenuity, complexity and sheer giddy wit that defines Liz Kingsman's hilarious solo debut.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 14th October 2021Review: Chris McGlade - Forgiveness
This is the show they tried to ban! Or, to be rather less shrill, Forgiveness is the show the Soho Theatre got cold feet about inviting back because it involves Chris McGlade using a couple of racial slurs. In the end, he negotiates around them - but in a way that we all know what he's REALLY saying - as he makes the argument that it's intent, not the words themselves, that's important.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 12th October 2021Question Time review
It's a good job Bob Mortimer is a guest in the opening episode of Question Team, else producers might be accused of ripping off Vic & Bob's chaotic, surreal and disrespectful approach to the panel show premise.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 12th October 2021Bob Mortimer: And Away... The Autobiography review
Here the humour is tempered with a more emotive edge, typical of a book that deftly combines all the varied aspects of Mortimer's eventful, fascinating life and paints a fully three-dimensional picture of this much-loved figure.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 11th October 2021Njambi McGrath: Accidental Coconut review
Britain has much work to do to come to terms with its horrific colonial past - and Njambi McGrath is here to encourage that conversation.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 8th October 2021Jon Courtenay: What's It All About? review
Jon Courtenay won Britain's Got Talent last year. You surely know that if you bought tickets to his tour - but if you didn't you certainly will afterwards.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 7th October 2021Jonathan Pie: Fake News (The Corona Remix) review
The intensity of his rage, so impotent against the weight of society and establishment, has an intrinsic dark humour of its own.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 7th October 2021