Bruce Dessau is a British arts critic who writes for the London Evening Standard and other publications, as well as his own website BeyondTheJoke.co.uk.[1]
He is the author of biographies of Rowan Atkinson and George Michael,[1] as well as Beyond a Joke (2011), a non-fiction book about the private lives of comedians and the difficulties in the comedy industry.[2][3][4]
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^"Beyond a Joke by Bruce Dessau - review". London Evening Standard. 29 September 2011. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
^Armstrong, Steven (25 September 2011). "Beyond a Joke by Bruce Dessau". Sunday Times. Archived from the original on 25 February 2014. Retrieved 19 February 2014. (subscription required)
^Tonkin, Boyd (17 August 2012). "Beyond a Joke, By Bruce Dessau". The Independent. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
BruceDessau is a British arts critic who writes for the London Evening Standard and other publications, as well as his own website BeyondTheJoke.co.uk...
Retrieved 14 June 2019. Biography George Michael: The Making of a Superstar BruceDessau, London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1989 "George Michael-The history". Twentyfive...
2014. "Katherine Parkinson: interview". The Telegraph. 29 March 2013. BruceDessau (28 December 2007). "Big in 2008: Comedy". Evening Standard. Retrieved...
The Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 27 August 2011. BruceDessau. "Jack Whitehall: Let's Not Speak of This Again". London Evening Standard...
Glasgow being part of London was well-received by Scottish viewers. BruceDessau of Beyond the Joke wrote that Death to 2021 was targeted at an American...
primarily in the Hampshire countryside. Dessau, Bruce (14 September 2013). "Micky Flanagan talks to BruceDessau about turning 50 and his latest show"....
are trivial" with intelligent callbacks. Another four-star review—by BruceDessau in Evening Standard—found Represent to be Acaster's "most conceptually...
in-joke chumminess, so hooray for No Such Thing As a Fish". Comedy critic BruceDessau wrote on his Beyond the Joke blog that: "All it lacks is the likes of...
programmes" and compared to Judge Rinder, Judge Judy and The Jeremy Kyle Show. BruceDessau of Beyond the Joke writes in a positive review that the show is "interesting...
have created an entire universe in a handful of episodes." Arts critic BruceDessau concluded: "It might have well-used stylistic elements of both The Office...
British town, but shed light on why they feel the way they do today". BruceDessau of Beyond the Joke commented that Ladhood displays "a type of laddish...
with critical approval gradually improving as the series progressed. BruceDessau, writing on the 100th episode, noted that it was a comedy that "the critics...
environment into which the various characters are forced. For comedy critic BruceDessau, though the setup was similar, "La Couchette" was "maybe more comic,...
Dessau, Bruce. "Elf Lyons review: Economics musical Chiffchaff turns the silliness dial up to 11", The Evening Standard, 26 March 2019 Dessau, Bruce....
performers Josie Long, Howard Read and Natalie Haynes, comedy critics BruceDessau and Stephen Armstrong, and many others from the British comedy industry...
"personal intimacy" which Acaster had previously avoided in his stand-up. BruceDessau, writing in the Evening Standard, lauded Acaster's "brilliantly self-flagellating...
at St Michael & All Angels' church in Pirbright, near Woking, Surrey. BruceDessau (25 November 2010). "Mackenzie Taylor obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved...
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