Steve Bennett (I)
- Journalist and reviewer
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Review: 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: Mawaan Rizwan at Latitude
Mawaan Rizwan is a great choice for a festival, not least because of his silly, infectious rap tracks, accompanied by a killer beat, on such significant subjects as mangoes or the fact that he's never been skiing.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 20th July 2019Review: Egg at Latitude
Toxic masculinity is the through-line of sketch duo Egg. But although Anna Leong Brophy and Emily Lloyd-Saini are obviously coming from a female perspective, they are empathetic to the damage it does to men, too.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 20th 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 2019GameFace series 2 review
Roisin Conaty's sitcom has got a deserved promotion to Channel 4 for its second series, and things seem to be going well for her character, Marcella, too. She's finally got an acting job - the opening slo-mo sequence follows her preparing backstage en route to the spotlight - and she's even passed her driving test.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 17th July 2019Review - Michelle Collins: Strong Monster
As a show, Strong Monster is very loose and not especially cohesive, but it's driven forcefully onwards by Collins's charismatically camp, scatty energy, making it more fun than it probably has any right to be.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 5th July 2019Review: I'm Only In It For The Parking by Lee Ridley
He's honest about his life without being mawkish or over-dramatic; emphasising his consistent point that disabled people are not intrinsically different from the non-disabled (or, probably more accurately, the 'not-yet disabled').
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 4th July 2019Katherine Ryan: Glitter Room on Netflix review
Katherine Ryan's latest stand-up show has a lost a little something in the transition from stage to Netflix. Live, her charisma and playfulness comes through a little stronger than on screen, to better sugar the more abrasive edges of her humour.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 2nd July 2019