Steve Bennett (I)
- Journalist and reviewer
Press clippings Page 61
Review - Impromptu Shakespeare
The temptation must surely strong to slip into modern vernacular for an easy laugh at the anachronism - and they do occasionally, succumb to it.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 30th May 2019Review - Rob Auton: The Talk Show
No, he's not making a pitch to occupy Graham Norton's chair. The Talk Show is another meticulously themed show from Rob Auton, this one about a key tool of his trade.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 24th May 2019Comedy Bloomer's LGBTQ+ New Comedian Of The Year review
The spoils - a whole £250 - went to Charlie George, a personable and witty comic who seems to have come a long way in the five short months since an unremarkable performance the Leicester Square new comedian final.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 23rd May 2019Review: The Cheeky Chappie
Jamie Kenna has been doing this on-and-off - if mostly off - for 15 years, and his reproduction of the Cheeky Chappie's fast-talking innuendo-ridden act is spot-on, especially in the way he plays off the crowd's responses, just as Max Miller did, rather than being a static performance behind the fourth wall.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 20th May 2019Review: Christian Brighty is Grandad in Grandad
The engineered spontaneity that underpins the hour can be great fun, although after a while you might crave some sort of tether for the shenanigans - a jeopardy that there's some underlying show to subvert, not just mucking about.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 20th May 2019Mother: Character Assassination review
Jack Mosedale and Laura Curnick have plenty of strengths as comic performers, even if they don't always play to them.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 19th May 2019Kiki Mellék: Law Of Attraction review
One part Katie Price, one part Melania Trump and two parts Kim Kardashian, Kiki Mellék is shallow, venal eurotrash - obsessed with an Instagrammable lifestyle and always mutilating herself under the surgeon's knife to become a grotesquely exaggerated parody of beauty.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 19th May 2019Leicester Square Not-So-New Comedian Of The Year review
Don't mention the big O... Leicester Square''s Not-So-New Comedian Of The Year - a retort to all the new act competitions rewarding youthful promise over hard-won experience - was previously known as the Old Comedian Of The Year. But that had to go because of its negative connotations.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 16th May 2019Map Man review
It is underdeveloped, and even Tom Curzon admitted at the end that he'd overlooked many of the things he had intended to do.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 15th May 2019Songs of Smut and Sparkle review
You have to feel a little sorry for Marcia D'Arc - the drag alter-ego of Bristol-based Mark Stewart - playing to about seven people scattered widely around a decent-sized bar.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 14th May 2019