Steve Bennett (I)
- Journalist and reviewer
Press clippings Page 128
Miranda Hart review
Her strength is primarily her inelegant physicality - she skips, lollops and childishly gallops across the stage more, even, than Michael McIntyre, with whom she shares a fair few delivery traits.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 10th March 2014Review - Inside No. 9: Sardines
It's been a long time since TV embraced the anthology format, but if it creates episodes as classy as these, it could be time for a revival - although it's hard to envisage who else could pull it off as skilfully as these League Of Gentlemen alumni.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 6th February 2014Steve Bennett interview (the comic, not journalist)
I only started taking it seriously in 2012, leading up to my first Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Sara Shulman, Comedy Blogedy, 4th February 2014Review: Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival Preview Show
Securing Jasper Carrott to host Leicester's comedy festival preview show was something of coup.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 11th January 2014The most memorable gigs of 2013
Chortle editor Steve Bennett's personal choice. Number one is Dame Edna.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 30th December 2013Harry Hill: The Movie - Review
Too many ideas that might look zany and original on paper actually seem increasingly futile, even desperate.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 20th December 2013BBC New Comedy Award final 2013 review
Proof, were ever it needed, that the geeks have inherited the world of comedy came at the final of the BBC New Comedy Award last night, thanks to an almost uninterrupted parade of the terminally uncool
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 10th December 2013Review: Jane Bussmann
In Bono And Geldolf Are C*nts, Jane Bussmann rattles a hornets' nest of patronising Western complacency that almost certainly need to be rattled.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 20th November 2013Crackanory review
A show such as Crackanory is dependent on the varied voices of individual writers even more than its roster of big-name performers, so almost inevitably some tales will appeal more than others. The opener showed both what can be achieved from a fertile imagination, and the disappointing product of a more pedestrian approach.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 14th November 2013Why comedians write the best memoirs
It might sometimes seem as if anyone with a public profile has a book out, but the best of them, will surely come from comedians.
Steve Bennett, The Huffington Post, 11th November 2013