Brian Logan
- Journalist and reviewer
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Why whiteness is stand-up comedy's new racial frontier
Where comedians once made the most of minority experiences, Fin Taylor, Brendon Burns and Peter White are three performers on this year's fringe digging into white privilege.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 19th August 2016Me and my flying toilet
You might think it's a difficult life being a press critic. You have to wear a lanyard. You have to spend literally minutes typing up your reports every evening. You have to look at yourself in the mirror. But you may not know that the job also involves flying over Edinburgh on a magical toilet, happily crapping on people's dreams! Fringepig has spoken to three top critics about the state-of-the-art critical conveniences that help them deliver lofty, messy judgment on the Fringe.
FringePig, 19th August 2016Why tiny comedy crowds are no fun for anyone
Stepping before an audience the size of a football team must make every comic's soul shrivel - and the experience is no less agonising for those watching.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 17th August 2016Is there an American style of standup?
Edinburgh is hosting heaps of US comics including Bill Burr, Ari Shaffir and Mary Lynn Rajskub, star of TV's 24. Do they have much in common?
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 11th August 2016Mike Ward cheapens the fight for free speech
The Canadian comic is at the Edinburgh fringe with his protest show about a joke that saw him ordered to pay $42,000. It's not a well-argued defence.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 10th August 2016Edinburgh's Free Fringe is no comedy graveyard
The fringe is no longer centred around the 'big four' venues. Whether you're a performer or punter, take it from an award-winning comic - and get out more.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 20th July 2016Making the leap from the safety of sketch comedy
Katy Brand and Kieran Hodgson were intimidated at first by the idea of going it alone on stage. But plenty of comedians journey between sketch troupes and solo performance - taking refuge in one and soul-searching in the other
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 14th July 2016Katy Brand: 'I was praying demons out of people at 15'
The comedian relives her teenage years as a fervent evangelical Christian in her new show. As she prepares for the Edinburgh festival, she talks about preaching in shopping centres and comic resurrection.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 4th July 2016Stand-up: unpretentious but often anti-intellectual
Comedians tend to apologise for making any highbrow references in their material. I wish more felt at ease quoting poetry like Liam Williams.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 24th June 2016Sarah Millican review
The emphasis is relentlessly below the waist in a frank show ostensibly about the comedian embracing rural life.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 16th June 2016