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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

April 2025

  • Salty Brine in These Are The Contents Of My Head at Soho theatre, London.

    Salty Brine review – daring diva mashup with hella pizzazz

  • Steven Frayne: Up Close and Magical

    Steven Frayne: Up Close and Magical review – Dynamo unplugged

  • ‘I’m not crying!’ … the much-changed Sarah Silverman, whose new show is called Postmortem.

    ‘I stole material from my dad’s funeral!’ Sarah Silverman on her outrageous and tender show about her parents’ demise

  • Not lost what makes him special … Mo Gilligan.

    Mo Gilligan review – riotous red-carpet relatability from a big-hearted comic

March 2025

  • Jenny Eclair.

    Jenny Eclair: Jokes Jokes Jokes review – deliciously carefree and crude

    At 65, Eclair has faced down adversity, her own ego, sexism and the menopause – and always found a way to keep cheerfully telling the tales
  • Rémi Martin and Emma Phillips in Sabrage.

    Sabrage review – this slick cabaret with saucy pillow fights is good unclean fun

    An irreverent mix of erotic trapeze, penis tricks and audience participation won’t disappoint groups out for a laugh – and a gasp

    • Shabaz Ali: I’m Rich, You’re Poor review – TikTok taunts getting a little threadbare

    • A spoof universally acknowledged: comic Rosalie Minnitt on her bonnet-crazed Jane Austen parody

    • Harry Hill: New Bits and Greatest Hits review – a truly silly comedy craftsman

February 2025

  • Bob Golding (Eric Morecambe), Damian Williams (Tommy Cooper) and Simon Cartwright (Bob Monkhouse) in The Last Laugh.

    The Last Laugh review – Eric Morecambe, Tommy Cooper and Bob Monkhouse’s antic triple act

  • Peter Kay in 2012.

    ‘There was a nastiness’: has Peter Kay thrown out his cuddly image along with his ‘garlic bread’ hecklers?

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  • Stewart Lee in a wolf costume on stage

    Stewart Lee Vs the Man-Wulf review - fur flies as the beast is unleashed

  • What is he doing? … a promotional image for Rob Auton’s The Eyes Open and Shut Show.

    Rob Auton: The Eyes Open and Shut Show review – eccentric observation and wonderment

January 2025

  • Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith in Inside No. 9 Stage/Fright.

    Inside No 9: Stage/Fright review – slick chills in Shearsmith and Pemberton’s creepy West End comedy

  • Demi Adejuyigbe

    Demi Adejuyigbe’s must-see comedy backflip: ‘It’s kind of Evel Knievel!’

  • Graham Fellows aka versatile singer/song writer John Shuttleworth. For g2 arts

    ‘I’ve finally realised I like John Shuttleworth!’ Graham Fellows on 40 years with his organ-plonking alter ego

  • Nina Conti.

    Nina Conti: Whose Face Is It Anyway? review – masterful ventriloquist’s sublime silliness

  • Chris McCausland: ‘Yonks!’ review – mischievous Strictly winner goes back to the day job

  • Kate Cheka: A Messiah Comes review – barbed jokes and trenchant anecdotes

  • Tony Slattery: the generous improv great whose successes masked his suffering

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