Bruce Dessau
Bio
Bruce specialises in music, TV and comedy. He writes for The London Evening Standard and is the author of biographies of numerous major figures, including George Michael and Rowan Atkinson. His latest book is Beyond A Joke: Inside The Dark World of Stand-Up Comedy (Random House). He is also the editor of comedy website beyondthejoke.co.uk
Articles By Bruce Dessau
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Scenes with Girls, Royal Court review - feminist separatism...
Last night, I discovered the gasp index. Or maybe just re-discovered. The what? The gasp index. It's when you see a show that keeps making you...
Chris Packham: 7.7 Billion People and Counting, BBC Two revi...
We hear plenty of debate about climate change and its disastrous potential, but the ballooning growth of the world’s population may be the most...
Miloš Karadaglić, Birmingham Town Hall review - flashy and f...
Dubbed “classical music’s guitar hero”, the 36-year-old London based Montenegrin...
Crazy Delicious, Channel 4 review - the most ridiculous cook...
The race continues to create the most ridiculous cooking programme...
You Stupid Darkness!, Southwark Playhouse review - an intrig...
Armageddon would appear to be at the gates in Sam Steiner’s intriguing if ramshackle...
English National Ballet 70th Anniversary Gala, Coliseum revi...
Just when you thought Christmas was well and truly over, along comes another box of delights. And there isn’t a disappointment in it. If it were...
Bach Sunday with the Suzukis, RAM / Appl, AAM, Milton Court...
Not long after noon on Sunday, strange bells began ringing. In just 11 bars,...
The Outsider, Sky Atlantic review - double trouble in small-...
Stephen King’s novels have generated an impressive lineage of successful...
Blomfield, Philharmonia, Salonen, RFH review - sounds of a t...
Concert programmes that set out to tell us a story can prove a mixed blessing. Yes, it’s valuable and stimulating to find ideas, and narratives,...
Blu-ray: Night Tide
Dennis Hopper’s first starring role, in Night Tide from 1961, as a naïve but curious young sailor bewitched by a siren, offers a strange...