Steve Bennett (I)
- Journalist and reviewer
Press clippings Page 92
Simon Amstell: Carnage review
There's no doubt that Simon Amstell's Carnage is a film with a very heavy message.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 19th March 2017Count Arthur Strong: The Sound Of Mucus review
[The finale is actually a bit of an anticlimax,] but by then we've enjoyed so many moments of laugh-out-loud absurdity, subtly slapstick in both word and deed, from this perfectly-realised fool, that to grumble would be churlish.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 17th March 2017Parental Guidance review
The school reunion is not the only cliché in the script, from BBC radio comedy staff writer Max Davis, which is set firmly in Sitcomland with its often formulaic exchanges.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 14th March 2017Harry and Paul Present: The Gentleman's Club review
The characters are certainly very funny, thanks to their social isolation and self-certainty in their out-of-touch attitudes, cheerily referring to a 'frightfully dapper Chinaman', for example. But there's really only so many variations on the theme, and this world doesn't offer Harry and Paul the chance to have fun with myriad characters as they have done in later work like The Story Of The 2s or Down The Line.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 14th March 2017Barbara Nice review
Audience sitcoms are notoriously hard to get right, but this pacy, funny and feelgood hits all the right notes. TV commissioners ought to be taking notice.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 14th March 2017The Gentleman's Club review
The characters are certainly very funny, thanks to their social isolation and self-certainty in their out-of-touch attitudes, cheerily referring to a 'frightfully dapper Chinaman', for example. But there's really only so many variations on the theme.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 14th March 2017The Miser review
The Miser certainly isn't tight-fisted with the laughs.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 13th March 2017Jonny And The Baptists: Eat The Poor review
Eat The Poor may wear its heart on its sleeve, but - anatomy be damned - that is also in the right place.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 13th March 2017Russell Howard: Round The World review
Russell Howard's aim for the show - and he mentions it a few times, lest we be in any doubt - is to offer a 'giggle in the gloom'. In a world riven by division and distrust, he's here to celebrate the best in humanity, offering up those moments of joy and silliness that have always been his stock-in-trade as an antidote to mean-spiritedness.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 10th March 2017Catastrophe series 3 preview
Between seasons one or two of Catastrophe, the action leapt forward several years to land Sharon and Rob with two young kids. But no such trickery this time around, as series three starts exactly where the last one ended: with Rob finding a receipt for the morning-after pill his partner brought after a drunken fling, and Sharon with some explaining to do.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 28th February 2017