Steve Bennett (I)
- Journalist and reviewer
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The Train review
The Train is sort of an anti-Snowpiercer, where nothing much happens at all.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 27th September 2022Am I Being Unreasonable? review
It must have seemed well-nigh impossible for Daisy May Cooper to follow up a sleeper hit like This Country, which drew so heavily on her West Country upbringing with her brother Charlie. But she's found fertile new territory with the new BBC comedy-drama-thriller Am I Being Unreasonable?
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 25th September 2022Nailing It by Rich Hall review
The situations and the people he encounters are almost all odd, but Hall celebrates that, even when he doesn't quite know what to make of them. Any reader of Nailing It will likewise embrace the comic's easy-going eccentricities.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 23rd September 2022Kim Noble: Lullaby For Scavengers review
Seven years in the making, Kim Noble's new show offers an unflinching embrace of what most people would find repulsive. It is repugnant, morbid and morally dubious - yet if you have the stomach for it, Lullaby For Scavengers as remarkable as it is confronting.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 22nd September 2022From The Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast Series 2 review
For all the irony, podcasting may well be the medium Steve Coogan's mild-mannered monster is made for, giving him free rein to voice his thoughts, however vacuous, petty or accidentally damning.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 22nd September 2022Cunk On Earth review
In the past couple of weeks, there has been no shortage of serious people on television screens, speaking with solemnity and great authority about any number of 'facts' they cannot possibly know - hoping their confidence will hide the ignorance behind their conjecture. So the scene is set for the return of the quintessential idiot with an undeserved platform, Philomena Cunk.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 20th September 2022Hal Cruttenden: It's Best You Hear It From Me review
With the well-honed comic instinct to mine laughs from dismay, and a sharp sense of both timing and jovial self-deprecation, jokes always come first in this accomplished break-up show.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 16th September 2022At a time of national mourning, London's comedians push onward
In times of national crisis, comedians can play an important role.
Noelle Mateer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 16th September 2022Harriet Kemsley: Honeysuckle Island review
Harriet Kemsley is an awkwardly chaotic force on stage as she apparently is in life. Straight out of the traps, she's into disarmingly frank stories about her mistakes.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 14th September 2022Britain's Greatest Obsessions: Harry On Humour review
Thank heavens for Harry Hill, whose wit and enthusiasm saved the otherwise flimsy first episode of Britain's Greatest Obsessions from a complete descent into irrelevance.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 13th September 2022