Steve Speirs
- 59 years old
- Welsh
- Actor and writer
Press clippings Page 2
Theatre review: The Upstart Crow, Gielgud Theatre, W1
Ben Elton has never been the coolest of comedians but he has always known how to craft a joke and The Upstart Crow is crammed with them. It is not just funny, it is futtocking funny.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 18th February 2020Review: Upstart Crow in the West End
With the Only Fools musical and now Upstart Crow, are sitcoms slowly taking over London's West End?
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 18th February 2020Upstart Crow, Gielgud Theatre review
The script is non-stop gags, Shakespeare in-jokes and some gloriously anachronistic lines.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 18th February 2020Inside No 9, review: The Referee's a W***er
The hit black comedy anthology series by Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith returns for a fifth series.
Sean O'Grady, The Independent, 3rd February 2020TV preview: Inside No. 9: The Referee's A W***er
Prepare to be suitably blown away. Let's just say they haven't dropped the ball.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 2nd February 2020TV review: The Tuckers, episode 2
This is not a bad show and the second episode is more out-and-out funnier than the first. It could just do with more of an original twist.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 15th January 2020TV review: The Tuckers, BBC One Wales
Some critics have suggested that the sitcom is a negative portrayal of working class Welsh valley stereotypes. I don't have a problem with that (though of course I'm not from the Welsh valleys). I'd have just liked it to have been funnier.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 13th January 2020TV review: The Tuckers Series 1 Episode 1
King Gary contained portrayals of working class characters that suffered from a surfeit of toxic masculinity and unfortunately so does this, I'm sure it's a coincidence they both went out on the same night and were presumably commissioned at different times and by different people, but it's unpleasant to see such a thing twice on the same evening. With The Tuckers you have two fathers who treat their sons appallingly, as Glyns Dad deliberately wants his son to be miserable and so tells his granddaughter to steal from him, while Glyn himself calls Bobby a pussy for apologising for punching Roberto, it's ugly, ugly stuff and something I found painfully unfunny.
Alex Finch, Comedy To Watch, 12th January 2020The Tuckers review
The BBC Wales comedy is full of valleys clichés and not enough laughs.
Kathryn Williams, Wales Online, 10th January 2020Casting announced for Upstart Crow stage show
Gemma Whelan, Helen Monks, Rob Rouse, Steve Speirs and Mark Heap will join David Mitchell in the new stage version of Upstart Crow, which opens in the West End in February.
British Comedy Guide, 26th November 2019