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Comedy
Inside the brain of O'Briain
Comedy: Good shows get laughs, great shows get applause, Dara O'Briain got cheers at Hammersmith Apollo, says Bruce Dessau.....read
Unique take on comedy
Comedy: From the moment Sean Lock ambled onstage at the Hammersmith Apollo it was clear that he deserves his fame, says Bruce Dessau.....read
Old-fashioned Mason's stage politics
Comedy: Jackie Mason has been criticised for his anti-Arab pronouncements yet, at a variety show celebrating Israel's 60th anniversary, he restrained himself.....read
Mystery man Derren Brown fools us all
Music: There is a visceral thrill to seeing the small, neat Derren Brown at work in the flesh in his latest show, An Evening Of Wonders, says Bruce Dessau.
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Original take on songs
Comedy: Dina Martina is one of the weirdest, wiggiest and most accessible acts The Soho Theatre has staged for a long time, says Bruce Dessau.....read
Anger Management
Comedy: Miles Jupp's current show, Everyday Rage and Dinner Party Chat, is a refreshingly cheery roll-call of annoyances, says Bruce Dessau.....read
One of a kind
Comedy: The slimmer, newly divorced Johnny Vegas was still the same savage tornado of shameless self-loathing, bitterness and regret at Stewart Lee's show.....read
Taking on the wrong role
Comedy: In the right role Richard Lumsden is very good but The Fall and Rise of Lenny Smallman, a self-penned, cliché-jammed slog of a pop parable, stretches his charms to the limit.....read
Not your average routine
Comedy: There is an underpinning intelligence to Paul Sinha's King of the World, which places it well above the standard stand-up routine.....read
All aboard the Tardis
Comedy: Toby Hadoke's engagingly nerdy confessional, Moths Ate My Doctor Who Scarf, reveals the reason behind his obesession with the fictional character.....read
Mighty Noel strides high
Comedy: TV Mighty Boosh co-creator Noel Fielding is a star from his bird’s nest hair to Cuban-heeled boots and he knows it, says Bruce Dessau.....read
Talent trampled by talk
Comedy: Andrew Maxwell and Simon Amstell did not have a very successful gig at Neighbourhood. But it was more the setting than the comedians that were to blame, says Bruce Dessau.....read
Medicinal madness
Comedy: Doktor Cocacolamcdonalds certainly has an eye-catching image but the material does not live up to the look in his freeform show, says Bruce Dessau.....read
Still absolutely fabulous 30 years on
Comedy: French and Saunders do what they do best in their latest live show - give us something to laugh about. Bruce Dessau says no other women pull off sophisticated stupidity as well.....read
Catty, chatty and lacking direction
Comedy: Scott Capurro's warped wit is hard to enjoy despite some intermittently insightful comments, says Bruce Dessau.....read
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