Bruce Dessau
- Journalist and reviewer
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Tim Vine, Bloomsbury Theatre, review
Eighty minutes of daft songs, stupid prop gags and one-liners reveal Tim Vine's ingenuity.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 27th May 2015PBH responds to questions from Michael Legge
Michael Legge has just posted the following on Facebook. It does address some questions, particular the one about why PBH can't just take over the existing programme...
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 24th May 2015Review: Ellie Taylor, Soho Theatre
It is easy to see why this show did not trouble Edinburgh Comedy Award judges last summer. I suspect that they thought it was pretty lightweight. After all, all it does is make the audience laugh for an hour. That is just snobbery though. Entertaining strangers is not something to be knocked. Jake may have been the works outing boss, but Taylor was clearly the undisputed boss of this show.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 22nd May 2015Trigger Happy TV to return
Dom Joly is planning to return to Channel Four to make more instalments of his breakthrough show Trigger Happy TV. Speaking to promote his new autobiography Joly shied away from describing the landmark hit series as a prank show and said that he hoped that the new episodes would be more "filmic".
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 21st May 2015Preview: Murder In Successville, Deborah Meaden
Meaden is a good sport, despite clearly not suffering fools gladly.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 20th May 2015Interview: Rarely Asked Questions - Mark Watson
Some unusual questions given to Mark Watson.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 19th May 2015Should 'real' comedians do Britain's Got Talent?
I've been a comedy critic and a TV critic for longer than I care to admit so I should have known about this years ago. Until recently I always assumed that the acts on Britain's Got Talent are all wannabes who queue up at the studios at dawn hoping for their big break in front of Simon Cowell. This is not the case.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 17th May 2015Review: Frankie Boyle's Election Autopsy, BBC iPlayer
At first this seems like Boyle set to Standard Offensive with his opening routine explaining that the "next five years will be like The Hunger Games without the Games," and then lobbing the requisite rotten abuse at all the party leaders. But beyond the quips there is some serious discussion of the mess those shy Tories have potentially got the country into.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 17th May 2015Live review: Richard Herring, Bloomsbury Theatre
After tackling sex, death, religion and other similarly heavy subjects Richard Herring's latest show has a more frivolous feel to it. Lord of the Dance Settee is a celebration of the daftness of life and how, through the smallest of incidents, we cannot help but be interconnected with each other.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 15th May 2015TV review: Rory Bremner's Election Report, BBC2
The shock result, however, probably meant that he and his writers - who include familiar circuit comics Chris Coltrane and Andy Zaltzman - had to rip up some of their work done in advance and start virtually from scratch. Taking that into account some of this is pretty good.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 13th May 2015