Steve Bennett (II)
- Irish
- Stand-up comedian and musical comedian
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Comedians Boxing review
Blyth is not the obvious place to host one of the comedy events of the year. A slow hour's bus ride north of Newcastle, this former shipbuilding and coal-mining town of 37,000 is now an unexceptional dormitory settlement of pleasant but bland Barratt-style estates. Yet 21 top circuit comics have descended on its sports centre - many more if you count those here to commentate, support, or act as cornermen - for the first ever comedians' boxing evening.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 8th February 2016Tony Law: Frillemorphesis review
The show is a jalopy with a lunatic at the wheel, careening about, forever close to collapse or crash. A wild ride, making the most of the spontaneous unrepeatability of live comedy. Law's a foo in the finest tradition, never really considering the consequences of his action.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 7th February 2016Reeves and Mortimer: Poignant Moments tour review
Not everything works 100 per cent. Though plenty love him, I'm still not convinced by Dr Shakamoto, probably because of that dodgy East Asian accent ('I rive in Reeds') - even though they try to head off such criticism with a preceding sketch in which Lovejoy has an hilariously misjudged Jamaican brogue. But all in this is a wonderful reminder of this way this creative duo forged a unique niche in British comedy. You'll be glad that when it comes to their classic material, they did not let it lie.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 5th February 2016Nick Thune review
Delivered deep and slowly, like an easy-listening radio DJ on the 3am shift, his stories burn slowly, but the fuse is extinguished before it leads to comedic dynamite.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 3rd February 2016An Evening with Brian Pern
As a shared celebration of a musical legend - real or not - An Evening with Brian Pern was an experience not to be missed.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 2nd February 2016Review - Gary Delaney: There's Something About Gary
For all the plentiful filth, Delaney's jokes are in a long music-hall tradition.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 29th January 2016Book review: The Actual One, by Isy Suttie
Bridget Jones was never quite like this...
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 29th January 2016Do Not Disturb review
Do Not Disturb is a perfectly serviceable hour of television, reasonably diverting, reasonably entertaining. But as a one-off you might expect something more of a landmark offering. In truth is you'd be better off with almost any episode of Frasier, for those guys REALLY know how to do great farce.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 27th January 2016Review - The Invisible Dot's Big Birthday Bash
They are the producers who have latched on to the more commercially viable, middle-class end of the alternative better than probably anybody else. And to celebrate how far they've come in seven years, The Invisible Dot have moved from their bijou studio home a Guardian's throw from Kings Cross to the 3,500+ seater Hammersmith Apollo for a Big Birthday Bash.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 26th January 2016Review - Eddie Izzard: Force Majeure Reloaded
Travel broadens the mind, so they say, but Eddie Izzard's centuries-spanning breadth of subject matter was already impressive, even before speeding his Force Majeure tour through 28 countries.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 22nd January 2016