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Brian Logan

Brian Logan is the Guardian's comedy critic and the artistic director of A Play, a Pie and a Pint

August 2024

  • Jordan Brookes: Fontanelle

    Jordan Brookes: Fontanelle review – heady mix of uneasy laughs, sexual candour and Titanic spoof

  • Olaf Falafel

    ‘This isn’t going to be sensible!’ Olaf Falafel, Edinburgh fringe’s king of one-liners

  • Katie Norris: Farm Fatale.

    Katie Norris: Farm Fatale review – this cat-lady comedy becomes a moggy melodrama

  • Emma Sidi

    Emma Sidi Is Sue Gray review – bureaucratic blabbermouth’s lurid disclosures

  • Joe Kent-Walters Is Frankie Monroe: Live!!! review – one hell of a host

  • Mhairi Black: Politics Isn’t For Me review – ex-youngest MP trades Commons for comedy therapy

July 2024

  • Daniel Kitson at Dinefwr literature festival.

    Daniel Kitson detests audience participation but still manipulates us like marionettes

    Brian Logan
  • Kyle Gass  performing with Tenacious D.

    Who’s laughing now? The gags that derailed comedy careers

  • Clowns perform in the Opening Cabaret at The London Clown Festival in London<br>Clown Furiozo performs in the Opening Cabaret at The London Clown Festival in London, Britain, July 8, 2024. Reuters/Hollie Adams

    Frightfully funny: is being roared at by a near-naked hardman really comedy?

    Brian Logan
  • Paulina Lenoir in red dress, red gloves and red headpiece on black background

    Paulina Lenoir: Puella Eterna review – flamenco clown takes us from cradle to grave

  • Tiny theatres take big risks – in cautious and precarious times, their survival is vital

    Brian Logan
  • David Sedaris is an icon of indignation in a world that keeps on irking

    Brian Logan
  • ‘We write something and it can be in the show that night’: comedy trio Sheeps on the freedom of Edinburgh fringe

  • ‘Punters let me cut their hair!’ Johnny Vegas on the wild pub that launched his career

  • Tweedy’s Massive Circus review – a lovable lark from start to finish

  • Edinburgh festival 2024: find the funny with these 20 comedy shows

June 2024

  • Ed Gamble … never quite the grownup.

    Ed Gamble: Hot Diggity Dog review – fresh angles on manchild awkwardness

  • Michelle Collins: The Big Natural Tour at Soho theatre.

    Michelle Collins: The Big Natural Tour review – huge presence doesn’t hide thin material

  • Standup Matt Rife in blue suit on stage.

    Crowd work is the hottest thing in standup comedy – and not everybody is laughing

    Brian Logan
  • Laura Smyth at the Hackney Empire

    Laura Smyth: Living My Best Life review – a comic with swagger and the popular touch

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