Bruce Dessau
- Journalist and reviewer
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TV review: Jack Dee's Election Help Desk, BBC2
There are a lot of election comedies coming along at the moment. There's the aforementioned Last Leg, the topical Newzoids and Ballot Monkeys from the writers of Outnumbered. It will be interesting to see which one wins the satire race. At the moment Help Desk gets my vote. But then I haven't seen the others yet.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 14th April 2015Musical Comedy Awards Final - results
Rebecca Humphries won the We Got Tickets Musical Comedy Awards Final last night at the Bloomsbury Theatre.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 11th April 2015Sue Perkins for Top Gear, and if not her another comic?
In the last few days I've heard about Count Arthur Strong being mooted as new host of Top Gear and Alexei Sayle being tipped for the job. At the time of writing Sue Perkins is the odds-on bookies favourite, even though she has tweeted that she is not interested.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 10th April 2015Daniel Kitson to perform at Edinburgh Fringe
Daniel Kitson is planning to perform his latest solo play, Polyphony, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this summer.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 10th April 2015Luisa Omielan goes viral
Luisa Omielan's empowering "Thigh Gap" routine at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival has gone viral. Since posting the clip on her Facebook page earlier this week the powerhouse performance has notched up over 8 million views.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 8th April 2015Online review: Matt Berry Does...The Boat Race
It's one of those things where you go "this is so brilliant why didn't they do it earlier?".
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 6th April 2015Second posthumous Rik Mayall project in pipeline
Following our story yesterday that Rik Mayall's last film performance in The Escape is to get a release in Holland in April, it has emerged that there is a second unreleased film featuring Mayall, entitled One By One, which claims to be his last British feature film and has a confirmed UK release date. It will be screened from this June.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 30th March 2015Rik Mayall's final performance to be released
The film featuring Rik Mayall's final performance is to feature a special dedication to him.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 29th March 2015Simon Amstell, Shepherd's Bush Empire - comedy review
Amstell's show is all about one skinny man's search for spiritual contentment - and it makes for a hilarious show, says Bruce Dessau.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 27th March 2015Opinion: Russell Howard 1 Stewart Lee 0
An article about how Stewart Lee's attempts on televising more alternative comedy on Comedy Central are losing out to more mainstream comics like Russell Howard.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 27th March 2015