Brian Logan
- Journalist and reviewer
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Max & Ivan: Comedians get personal about their backstage dramas
In their new shows, anarchic theatre company Spymonkey and sketch duo Max and Ivan place the spotlight on their own lives more than ever before
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 11th January 2024Julia Masli on her accidental comedy masterpiece
Her midnight agony aunt clown show became the hot ticket of the fringe - despite the fact that the Estonian never regarded herself as a comic. In fact, she says, she much prefers making audiences cry.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 8th January 2024The Horne Section's Christmas Shindig review
Alex Horne's musical comedy band serve up peachy and puerile puns in an endearing, occasionally festive show.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 18th December 2023Pandemonium review
Armando Iannucci's furiously funny takedown of No 10.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 12th December 2023Viggo Venn review
BGT champ is a clown prince enjoying his moment.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 11th December 2023Lucy Beaumont: The Trouble & Strife! review
The Hull comic continues to riff brilliantly on her home city's quirks but you wish she'd reveal more of the 'small angry woman' she describes herself as.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 4th December 2023Eddie Izzard: The Remix review
Pausing her political campaigning to revisit routines that made her name, Izzard seems to be enjoying herself as much as we are.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 29th November 2023Ruby Wax: I'm Not As Well As I Thought I Was review
This one-woman play aims to dramatise Wax's globe-trotting spiritual quest but gets sidetracked into anecdote.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 22nd November 2023Rosalie Minnitt: Clementine review
In this giddily inventive show, Minnitt plays a woman trying to bag a beau before her sentence to spinsterdom is declared.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 17th November 2023Eddie Izzard and the comics who took politics by storm
Can the surreal comedy superstar parlay comedy chops into political power? Izzard certainly wouldn't be the first stand-up to pivot from telling jokes to canvassing for votes.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 14th November 2023