Steve Bennett (I)
- Journalist and reviewer
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Help Save Live Comedy review
For public health reasons, the country might not yet be ready for normality, but every glimpse that a return pre-pandemic life might be possible remains a fillip for the soul.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 17th August 2020Review: Mandy
She's made her name on TV as Philomena Cunk and as Liz in Motherland, saying the words of some very talented writers. But Mandy is all Diane Morgan's own work, as writer, star and director - and very funny it is, too.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 13th August 2020Squeamish About... preview
In one of the few TV programmes that can be made in isolation, Matt Berry provides his peculiarly stressed voiceover to a patchwork of unrelated archive clips.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 6th August 2020Live review: Frog & Bucket
It's good to be back! Inside the UK's first comedy club gig for four months.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 30th July 2020Frankie Boyle review
For the master of the savage one-liner, stomping on sensibilities, Boyle remains deeper than his vicious reputation, with complexity of thought and a surprising variety of material, of which the nastier lines are but one part, crucial as they are.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 24th July 2020Jack Whitehall: I'm Only Joking review
During a mini-rant about vegans in his new special, Jack Whitehall acknowledges that he's going after 'low-hanging fruit'. But it's not just one throwaway line about meat-deniers being physically weak that fits this category, but large swathes of this uninspiring show.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 21st July 2020The Young Offenders, series 3 review
Much of the comedy comes from a naturalistic slapstick, and although the gags are often relatively unsophisticated, 'dumb but endearing' applies the show as much as does to its lead characters. Charm will out.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 20th July 2020Mark Watson's Carpool Comedy review
'This is not a perfect way to do comedy,' Mark Watson admits during the first of more than two dozen of his Carpool Comedy drive-in gigs.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 10th July 2020Jack Whitehall's Sporting Nation preview
He does a decent job, an amusing and buoyantly positive host without pushing the comedy too hard, always good company if rarely laugh-out-loud funny. (though a wry comment about 'those who can't, host' is winningly self-deprecatory). It's a stepping stone to him being a bone fide presenter, rather than a jester on the sidelines.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 10th July 2020The Kemps: All True review
The show packed in so many offbeat scenes that will lodge in the brain, that The Kemps: All True is surely the stuff of cult longevity. It's comedy Gold.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 6th July 2020