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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Top Gun: Maverick review - Tom Cruise defies age and gravity
Only 36 years later, Tom Cruise is back with his eagerly-awaited Top Gun sequel (it was delayed a couple of years by Covid), and there...
I Get Knocked Down, Brighton Festival review - Chumbawamba s...
One effect of the film I Get Knocked Down, a playfully constructed journey around the life of Chumbawamba vocalist Dunstan Bruce, is to...
Berrut, ECO, Guzzo, Cadogan Hall review - Schubert with a sm...
I came for the Schubert and it didn’t disappoint. Which was good, as the Mozart and Stravinsky did, a little. I came to know Schubert’s Fifth...
The Innocents review - they're just playing
The Innocents made a splash at Cannes in 2021 and it’s easy to see why. The ...
Blu-ray: I Am a Camera
The first film rendering of Christopher Isherwood’s experiences in early 1930s Berlin, I Am a Camera has been restored and released on...
The House of Shades, Almeida Theatre review - Anne-Marie Duf...
Anne-Marie Duff blazes across the stage like a meteorite in Beth Steel’s excoriating drama about the changes sweeping through a Northern mining...
Grease, Dominion Theatre review - a super night out, great s...
Barry Gibb was at the considerable peak of his era-defining songwriting powers when he provided the song that played over the opening titles of...
Tallies, Old Blue Last review - Canadian quintet rejuvenates...
Toronto’s Tallies have acknowledged their fondness for Aztec...
The Essex Serpent, Apple TV+ review - tradition and supersti...
Sarah Perry’s 2016 bestseller The Essex Serpent has been described as “a novel of ideas”, which almost sounds like a warning to anybody...