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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

May 2025

  • Slickly performed … The Empire Strips Back

    The Empire Strips Back review – Chewie gets jiggy in galactic burlesque parody

  • Skill in spades … Sophie McCartney.

    Sophie McCartney: One Foot in the Rave review – the ‘comedimum’ riffs on wild youth and motherhood

April 2025

  • Heartfelt chanson … John Early in Now More Than Ever.

    Search Party’s John Early: ‘You can only take a narcissistic monster for so long – it grates after 10 years’

    Dropping the droll, self-obsessed character from his early standup shows, the comic and TV star is swapping millennial irony for the sincerity of song
  • Salty Brine in These Are The Contents Of My Head at Soho theatre, London.

    Salty Brine review – daring diva mashup with hella pizzazz

    The drag queen’s latest intermingling of Annie Lennox covers, southern gothic literature, Judy Garland and family anecdotes is a bravura feat of idiosyncratic connection

    • Steven Frayne: Up Close and Magical review – Dynamo unplugged

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

    • 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?

    Brian Logan
  • 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

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