Steve Bennett (II)
- Irish
- Stand-up comedian and musical comedian
Press clippings Page 21
Monty Python Live review
No matter how jaded or cynical, the opening to I'm A Lumberjack, Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life, Nudge Nudge Wink Wink and even the Liberty Bell theme tune itself can't help but send a shiver down the spine of anyone who knows about these things.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 1st July 2014Mrs Browns' Boys: D'Movie review
It's not just the jokes that are cheap, the sentimentality is, too.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 28th June 2014Dawn French: 30 Million Minutes review
Words like 'empowering' and 'inspirational' could so easily be bandied about here; or even more unkind ones such as 'mawkish' and 'sentimental'. Yet these adjectives would be as inaccurate as they are simplistic.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 26th June 2014Radio review: Blocked
Frankie Boyle has proved too controversial for supposedly edgy late-night TV shows, so it could come as a surprise that his BBC comeback comes via middle-class Radio 4, albeit as a writer rather than a performer.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 6th June 2014Judging a book by its cover
A review of the brochure from the 'big four' venues. "If we can judge this booklet by its cover, we'd decide that it fails every basic instinct of layout, failing to say what it represents, but instead screaming 'compromised by committee'."
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 14th May 2014Marcus Brigstocke review
Tales of peculiar heckles and a family safari where consequences of the local diet were a greater risk than any big beast, pave the way for the personal stories promised in the blurb, which hold the most interesting.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 14th May 2014Totally Tom in Waiting For Godot review
There are moments of pure physical pantomime as they monkey around, killing time, while their rhythms and emphasis wring laughs out of the script that Beckett may never have envisaged.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 13th May 2014Film review: Frank
It's a shame the original Sidebottom's modest joie de vivre doesn't shine through, save for an allegedly 'mainstream' number Frank composes in a hotel room on the eve of the band's festival appearance. Instead, the focus is entirely on the complexities and troubles behind that mask.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 9th May 2014Over To Bill review
What little comedy there is comes from Onion bumbling and getting into more trouble as he lies - badly - to dig his way out of it. The trope is as familiar as the setting, even if Naylor tries to make a clumsy joke out of the cliche.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 30th April 2014Musical Comedy Awards 2014 final
There was a contest, but there was no competition. David Elms won the Musical Comedy Awards last night, standing head and shoulders above the other finalists for the wit and invention he brought to a much-maligned genre.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 26th April 2014