Brian Logan
- Journalist and reviewer
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Tim Key: Father Slutmas review - a convivial smut-fest
Key revels in puncturing the feelgood festive spirit in this baggy Christmas stocking of a show.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 19th December 2014Nick Helm review
Helm's festive outing is painful, self-pitying and aggressive, but the musical numbers provide structure and pace.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 18th December 2014Should Russell Brand keep to comedy on serious points?
It was refreshing to hear Brand's views on Question Time, but if Nigel Farage escaped their showdown unscathed, it's because the comedian is in unfamiliar territory.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 12th December 2014Adam Riches review
Once you're over your participation-phobia, Riches' combination of broad character-comedy and coercive stunts makes for daft fun.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 10th December 2014Daniel Kitson review
The conclusion is lovely, too: its combination of magic, catharsis and sentimentality is pitched perfectly, without overpromising happy endings or undermining the emotional realities of what's gone before. After only a week's run, Kitson's Christmas show is over almost as soon as it began. But its story is for the ages.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 7th December 2014Richard Gadd: Breaking Gadd review
This multimedia show is a cartoon misery memoir, not without its pleasures, but mainly two-dimensional.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 5th December 2014Are smartphones killing comedy?
At two gigs in the past fortnight, I've seen two comics seek to defuse the threat in the same way. Both Dave Gorman and Aziz Ansari offered to pose for audience photographs at the top of the show, after which the audience were required to power down the cameras and concentrate on the comedy.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 3rd December 2014The first UK Jewish comedy festival
Can Britain's Jewish standups become a cultural force to rival their US counterparts? Brian Logan finds out from Ruby Wax and other comics.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 25th November 2014Who else can do what Lee Evans does?
The expressive, elastic, inimitable comedian is retiring. I wish he'd consider a Lenny Henry-style reinvention instead.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 21st November 2014Shappi Khorsandi review: gags about porn & prejudice
Shappi Khorsandi review - perky gags about porn and prejudice. Soho Theatre, London.
The Anglo-Iranian comedian ranges entertainingly from racism to combative encounters at the school gate.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 19th November 2014