Steve Bennett (I)
- Journalist and reviewer
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Jack Whitehall's Sporting Nation preview
He does a decent job, an amusing and buoyantly positive host without pushing the comedy too hard, always good company if rarely laugh-out-loud funny. (though a wry comment about 'those who can't, host' is winningly self-deprecatory). It's a stepping stone to him being a bone fide presenter, rather than a jester on the sidelines.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 10th July 2020The Kemps: All True review
The show packed in so many offbeat scenes that will lodge in the brain, that The Kemps: All True is surely the stuff of cult longevity. It's comedy Gold.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 6th July 2020Review: Behind The Filter
If you're a young, white, middle-class female comedian making a TV show with a frank scene about sex, you're going to be compared with you-know-who. Especially if your first name happens to be Phoebe.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 30th June 2020Review - Michael Spicer: Before Next Door
There is always the risk a comedian-led mockumentary like this will tip into self-indulgence, especially when the central character is so insular and inward-looking, but there's a big enough dollop of quirk in Before Next Door to make it feel fresh and funny. Even the meta moments - acknowledging a flashback or the artifice of a sound effect - are done with a light, deft touch.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 18th June 2020Staged review
After a languid set-up in the first episode, things do pick up a bit in the second which might help Staged succeed for those seeking mild entertainment away from the intensity of the news. But it feels like an understudy for a comedy show rather than the real thing.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 10th June 2020Review - Alan Partridge: From The Oasthouse
He's just been named Britain's top comedy character, and the preview episode of his first podcast gives more evidence why Alan Partridge has the well-rounded subtlety to be worthy of the title.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 5th June 2020Review - Nick Helm: All Killer Some Filler
Hundreds of people in a sweaty, beery venue chanting as one after a night of shared jokes and songs to fire your spirits from a high-octane performer. This special certainly makes you wish you were there at the time... and pine for the time we can do it again.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 4th June 2020Review - Comedians: Home Alone
This must have been one of the easiest comedy compilation shows to curate. With the live circuit in its induced coma, so many stand-ups are pumping out online content online that the whole internet is one giant audition room.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 1st June 2020Review: The First Team
The Inbetweeners rightly raised Iain Morris and Damon Beesley to the comedy nobility. But with The First Team - another examination of young male relationships - they've missed the goal, certainly judging by a relatively flat opening episode.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 28th May 2020What's The Matter With Tony Slattery? review
This story of what happened to Tony Slattery, 35 years after he set screens alight with his dazzling displays of mercurial comedy talent is not always an easy watch, but it is a compelling one.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 20th May 2020