Steve Bennett (I)
- Journalist and reviewer
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Do Gooders review
Garrick Millerick's acerbically jaded worldview is evident from the pre-credit scene of Do Gooders, in which his character is being grilled about the lack of enthusiasm for his job in a mid-level charity.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 30th July 2024Piglets review
They may have had to go back 20 years to get the old writing team back together again, but ITV deserves to have a hit on its hands with Piglets.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 20th July 2024Daniel Kitson: Collaborator review
Kitson has wrung out jokes from every angle of this innovative conceit, and made comedic capital out of his possible pretentiousness, thus avoiding it. He takes swipes at the awfulness of actors, calls stand-up a bankrupt art form full of people telling you too directly what they think and mocks his own legacy and reduces storytelling to its simplest elements.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 18th July 202499 Club Bursary Showcase 2024 review
Five female comics making their Fringe debut.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 16th July 202499 Club announces 2024 bursary recipients
The 99 Club's Female & Non-Binary Comedians Bursary Programme has announced five winners for 2024.
British Comedy Guide, 16th July 2024Kingston Comedian Of The Year review
Surely the only final anyone cared about yesterday was the Crack Comedy club's inaugural new act competition.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 15th July 2024Spent review
BBC comedy chefs have said they want to make more laugh-out-loud comedies and fewer semi-autobiographical comedy-dramas. And watching Spent you can understand why, as it falls into that familiar gap of being neither consistently funny enough nor emotionally compelling enough to fulfil either side of the equation.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 8th July 2024Rishi Sunak's Doing A Musical! review
Review of a hastily-written topical satire.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 3rd July 2024Review - Kirsty Mann: Skeletons
A tightly written 50 minutes that introduces us to such characters as her humourless boss, reckless best mate, Sloaney agent, dilettante playwright, and bewildered patient convinced he saw her in the local panto - all of which showcase her considerable talents for accents as well as characters.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 27th June 2024Douglas Is Cancelled review
Rows about cancel culture tend to be reductive. A clear binary between those who harrumph "you can't say anything any more" and the righteously censorious. A nuanced path somewhere between the two is probably society's best way forward, but as a savvy newspaper editor says in Steven Moffat's twisty new comedy-drama Douglas Is Cancelled: "Outrage is exciting, nuance is work."
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 27th June 2024