Brian Logan
- Journalist and reviewer
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Eddie Izzard - review
This two-hour prate across Greek gods, gold-digging moles and burglar horses is amusing enough, but doesn't feel like it's for now, or for us. It's generic Izzard, and a bit toothless.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 8th May 2013Eddie Izzard - review
The wacky juxtapositions feel less inspired, and the callbacks - to a chicken masquerading as Marc Anthony; to a Highland ex-lover of Emily Brontë's Heathcliff - are mechanical.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 8th May 2013Doc Brown - review
It's good to find a comedian who cares about the world, but Brown's best material doesn't spring from social concern. His ear for oddity.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 18th April 2013Chris Addison - review
Part of the problem is that Chris Addison's style is becoming mechanical. The flounciness, explosive articulation, the fake giggling at his own jokes: it feels like a shtick rather than an honest encounter with an audience.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 31st March 2013Rich Hall - review
The best thing about comedy, says Rich Hall, the quality that makes it worth defending, is that it doesn't do any harm. That's not a high mast to pin your colours to, and sure enough, Hall isn't doing any stretching tonight.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 7th March 2013Simon Munnery - review
It's only the sub-Paper Cinema animations that fully utilise Munnery's "fylm" format, and even these feel underdeveloped.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 25th February 2013Tony Law - review
Hot on the heels of Harry Hill, another alpha nonsense-peddler proves that sometimes (if you get it right, and not many do) comedy is at its best when it means nothing at all.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 20th February 2013Harry Hill - review
Should a 48-year-old ex-doctor be pillow-fighting with a large man in a leotard? Should he be singing Jessie J's Price Tag in Tongan, or impersonating a horse in flip-flops? If this triumphant return to live comedy proves anything, it's that Hill growing old certainly doesn't equal Hill growing up.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 10th February 2013Milton Jones - review
There are no other gimmicks tonight. It's just pop-eyed, shock-haired Jones messing with the idea that there's any stability to the things we say.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 10th February 2013Sarah Kendall - review
Since her last full show, the former Perrier award nominee has become mother to a little girl, which has sharpened her focus on the options, or lack of them, on offer to contemporary women.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 8th February 2013