Steve Bennett (I)
- Journalist and reviewer
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Review: Milton Jones at Latitude 2019
Milton Jones emerges on to the Latitude stage with his hair as wild as always and smoke billowing behind him. He looks - and acts - like a mad scientist time traveller dumped in the middle of a Suffolk field, bewildered as to how he got here... an impression he maintains for his 45 minutes on stage.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 22nd July 2019Review: Tez Ilyas at Latitude
Maybe he's practising impartiality to keep Ofcom at bay before his Channel 4 satirical show begins this week - but during his Latitude set Tez Ilyas outlines some good reasons to leave the EU. It's certainly unexpected as you'd peg this liberal British-Pakistani Muslim - and this festival crowd - as Remainer through-and-through.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 22nd July 2019Review: Kiri Pritchard-McLean at Latitude 2019
The threatened bad weather has largely stayed away from Latitude, but the heavens briefly opened during Kiri Pritchard-McLean's set, so heavily that she could liken it to 'what Christians would blame on gay people'.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 21st July 2019Review: Ashley Storrie at Latitude
Ashley Storrie's Latitude set got off to a bumpy start. Partly down to the usual turmoil in the tent as punters throng in and out between comedians, completely ignoring compere Lou Conran, and partly because she didn't quite have focus, jumping around between stereotypes of her native Glasgow, paedophile references and fragments of personal information that didn't quite join up, or allow the audience to connect easily with her.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 21st July 2019Review: Rachel Parris at Latitude
Rachel Parris has had quite the year. Twitter spats with Piers Morgan and viral videos telling men how to behave, both courtesy of BBC Two's Mash Report, have pushed her into a bigger league, and now she's filling Latitude's comedy arena.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 21st July 2019Review: Jason Manford at Latitude 2019
Whatever can be said about Jason Manford in a review can never match the devastating critique meted out by his own daughter through desperate tears after being punished for a tantrum. I can't repeat it, as it was the punchline to his entire Latitude set, but it's hilarious and heartbreaking in equal measure.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 21st July 2019Review: Mark Watson at Latitude 2019
Mark Watson is surely a Latitude kind of comedian, with a big overlap between his fan base and the sort of liberal, curious, middle-class people who come to a festival like this.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 21st July 2019Review: Nick Helm at Latitude 2019
Nick Helm offers a disclaimer at the start of his Latitude set: he hasn't gigged in 18 months and hasn't done a proper Edinburgh Fringe show in six years... though that will change in ten days, when this year's festival kicks off.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 21st July 2019Review: Kae Kurd at Latitude
As a childhood Kurdish refugee to Britain, and the son of an Iraqi freedom fighter who took on Saddam Hussein, Kae Kurd has a unique story to tell and an unusual point of view.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 21st July 2019Review: Tiff Stevenson at Latitude 2019
On Thursday night, Channel 4 viewers would have seen Tiff Stevenson drunkely pratfall off a car in Roisin Conaty's GameFace. On Friday afternoon, she's in a Suffolk field doing what's her bread and butter: cracking feminist-inspired jokes.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 20th July 2019