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Brian Logan
Brian Logan

Brian Logan

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Julia 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 2024

The 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 2023

Pandemonium review

Armando Iannucci's furiously funny takedown of No 10.

Brian Logan, The Guardian, 12th December 2023

Viggo Venn review

BGT champ is a clown prince enjoying his moment.

Brian Logan, The Guardian, 11th December 2023

Lucy 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 2023

Eddie 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 2023

Ruby 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 2023

Rosalie 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 2023

Eddie 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

Park your cynicism! Michael McIntyre is a super-relatable well-oiled joke machine

The everyman stand-up delivers substantial comic payloads by itemising the oddity of human behaviour. A successful formula his new tour continues to exploit.

Brian Logan, The Guardian, 27th October 2023

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