Bruce Dessau
- Journalist and reviewer
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Opinion: Best Sketch Ever?
I looked at the screen and could not believe what I was seeing. It looked like a bunch of bearded Amish folk in the Thames TV studio but it sounded exactly like the Sex Pistols on December 1st 1976.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 4th April 2013Opinion: Is comedy getting too posh?
There is already a sign that comedy is getting posher. Miranda Hart and Jack Whitehall spring to mind, but there are others on the horizon too.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 2nd April 2013Harry Hill, Hammersmith Apollo - comedy review
With his usual oddball gags all present, Harry Hill's first live show for eight years frequently feels like a wonderful out-of-body experience.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 27th March 2013Altitude festival - Izzard in a blizzard
Yet Eddie Izzard, with his long-term political ambitions, is clearly one who has plans to engage with the outside world. That will have to wait though. In the meantime Altitude suggests that he has got his stand-up mojo back.
Bruce Dessau, Chortle, 21st March 2013Kevin Eldon: the bridesmaid becomes a bride
He has worked on virtually every landmark British TV comedy series - and now, at 53, Kevin Eldon is finally getting his own. Bruce Dessau meets the star of It's Kevin
Bruce Dessau, The Guardian, 13th March 2013Review: Patrick Combs
If you like Dave Gorman's docu-comedies, you will enjoy this. The accidental people's hero takes similar delight is leading the audience down unlikely narrative paths, involving movie deals and sex change dogs alongside doddery experts in fiscal law.
Bruce Dessau, , 10th March 2013Opinion: Can Frankie Boyle change the record please?
Frankie Boyle says or tweets something about a topical event, a newspaper finds someone offended by it and before you can say "ban this filth" here we go again.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 7th March 2013Review: Simon Munnery, Leicester Square Theatre
The show gets into trickier water elsewhere, but for every bad gag there are five good ones.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 26th February 2013Opinion: Hang on, Derek is very good after all
When Derek started on Channel 4 a month ago I was fairly indifferent to it. After the controversial one-off last year and the disappointingly broad Life's Too Short it looked as if Ricky Gervais had maybe mislaid his mojo. Four episodes in, however, I'm wondering if he has found it again.
Bruce Dessau, , 22nd February 2013Review: Jamie Kilstein, Soho Theatre
Kilstein's thoughtful sets demand your concentration and because I expected the gig to be shorter I was mentally winding down after an hour.
Bruce Dessau, , 21st February 2013