Steve Bennett (I)
- Journalist and reviewer
Press clippings Page 90
Horace: Default Friends review
The good-natured quirkiness and off-the-wall ideas are enough to overcome sometimes overindulgent writing, especially if you take the Brighton Fringe performance of Default Friends as a work-in-progress.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 9th May 2017Loaded review
When sitcom characters suddenly become wealthy, it's rarely good news for the viewer. Think Roseanne or Only Fools And Horses. But Channel 4's Loaded could well break that jinx, depicting four newly-minted tech millionaires who quickly realise that riches are the start of their problems, not the end.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 8th May 2017Intimate Strangers review
Male sketch duo Intimate Strangers would like to revel in a dark brand of humour, although they apply their sick ideas far too bluntly.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 8th May 2017Russell Brand - Re:Birth review
As you'd expect, Brand continues to sell his flamboyantly eloquent routines with the brash chutzpah of a Victorian sideshow barker, playing up his Essex cheeky-chappiness even though he's now 41 and living in exquisite Henley-upon-Thames.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 4th May 2017Book review: Neuropolis by Robert Newman
Oh no! Not another arena-filling comedian with a quasi-academic tome about neuroscience. I've only just finished Lee Evans on hippocampal Cb2 receptor gene expression and Roy 'Chubby' Brown on the lateral occipital sulcus.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 4th May 2017Mindhorn review
There are enough laughs from the characters, if not the plot, to make for an entertaining 90 minutes.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 3rd May 2017Rum Bunch preview
Rum Bunch is an unashamedly old-fashioned slice of gang-show radio comedy.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 3rd May 2017The Philanthropist review
Across the board, supposedly soul-searching scenes often come to sound more like shallow, self-centred millennial whines than the intended existential angst.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 27th April 2017The Comedy Happening review
Phil Nichol was the headliner, and Bobby Davro was the most famous name on the bill. But the comedian who'll be best remembered from this Comedy Happening gig was the relatively unknown Chris McGlade. 'Relatively unknown' for not much longer, I'd wager.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 26th April 2017Marcel Lucont's Whine List review
When you can ad lib as elegantly as M. Lucont, the exchanges he has with the audience are more than enough for a show as fruity as the wine he sups.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 25th April 2017