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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Neil Hamburger – review by Brian Logan

Soho theatre, London"What disease did Ben and Jerry give to all the prostitutes in their hometown of Waterbury, Vermont?" Questions such as this give a glimpse into the festering mind of Nei…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:37PM
Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Tim Minchin and others at the Greenwich comedy festival – review by Brian Logan

Old Naval College, Greenwich"Better glance up every five seconds," says compere Dan Atkinson. In a big top in the grounds of the Old Royal Naval College, an overhead cable has fallen into th…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:40PM
Sunday, September 4, 2011

Top comedy picks for autumn by Brian Logan

The nights are drawing in, and we all need a laugh. Let Stewart Lee, Stephen Merchant and Russell Kane put a smile on your faceStephen Merchant"I really am mediocre [at standup]," Stephen Me…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:40PM
Monday, August 29, 2011

Sanderson Jones – review by Brian Logan

The Caves, Edinburgh"I hate the internet!" Sanderson Jones is streaming a song he's found online – and the woman who recorded it, for her private pleasure, squirms with embarrassment on th…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:00AM
Sunday, August 28, 2011

Thom Tuck – review by Brian Logan

Pleasance Dome, EdinburghFrom Penny Dreadfuls to straight-to-DVD movies: Thom Tuck's appetite for pulp knows no bounds. Like his Dreadfuls cohorts Humphrey Ker and David Reed, Tuck has now t…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PM

Tim FitzHigham – review by Brian Logan

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghStandup was once the art of telling jokes. Now, it's as likely to be the art of doing something improbable, and reporting back. Dave Gorman usually gets credit …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AM
Saturday, August 27, 2011

Adam Riches wins Edinburgh comedy award at fringe festival by Brian Logan

Comedian with a 'fearless level of audience engagement' beats joint-favourite Nick Helm to most prestigious standup prize in UKHis show invites the audience to play swingball and impersonate…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:02PM
Friday, August 26, 2011

Luke Wright – review by Brian Logan

Underbelly, EdinburghWhen David Cameron calls it "broken Britain", he's invoking moral decay and blaming the poor. When performance poet Luke Wright does so – his title quotes the phrase �…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:49AM

Cariad Lloyd – review by Brian Logan

Voodoo Rooms, EdinburghThe one-person, multi-character hour is a favourite of female comics on the fringe; Catherine Tate and Laura Solon, among others, launched in just that format. Now Car…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AM
Thursday, August 25, 2011

Andrew Maxwell – review by Brian Logan

Assembly, George Square, EdinburghThere are more topical jokes in Andrew Maxwell's set than practically every other fringe show I've seen, combined. And it's not the facetious twittering tha…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:59PM

Chris Ramsey – review by Brian Logan

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghOffermation, Chris Ramsey tells us, is useless or unwanted information, shoved under your nose whether you like it or not. Modern life teems with the stuff, and…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:59PM
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Adam Riches – review by Brian Logan

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghIf you have a horror of audience participation, you might choose to avoid Adam Riches's new show. But you'd miss a lot of fun. Riches is a chaos conductor, a ri…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:41PM

New Art Club – review by Brian Logan

Assembly George Square, EdinburghElsewhere on the fringe, sketch troupe Kieran and the Joes' spoof Milgram experiment purports to show how easily we can be induced to do terrible things. Som…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PM

Edinburgh 2011 comedy awards: who should have the last laugh? | Brian Logan by Brian Logan

The untrammelled silliness of Adam Riches gets my vote for this year's Edinburgh comedy award, with Hannibal Buress for best newcomer, but it's a shame sketch comedy is missing from the main…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:56PM

Kieran and the Joes – review by Brian Logan

Just the Tonic @ The Store, EdinburghThe life-coaching seminar has proved rich terrain for parodists over the years; Will Adamsdale's take on it won the If.Comedy Award back in 2005. This ye…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM
Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Glenn Wool – review by Brian Logan

Assembly George SquareGlenn Wool has been given a hero's welcome on his return to Edinburgh after a three-year absence. I don't quite share the clamorous enthusiasm with which some have gree…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:20PM

Isy Suttie – review by Brian Logan

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghAged 10, Isy Suttie released a balloon from her garden, with a plea for a pen pal inside. She hoped it would reach Australia – but instead, it reached 25-year…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:15PM
Monday, August 22, 2011

Jigsaw – review by Brian Logan

Pleasance CourtyardJigsaw are three standups gathered to perform full-pelt sketch comedy. You'll see better acting in the primary school nativity, and there's zero experiment with sketch-sho…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PM
Sunday, August 21, 2011

Henry Paker – review by Brian Logan

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghHalf the comedians in Edinburgh are performing in Portakabins – or worse. Might as well make a virtue out of necessity. And so, Henry Paker has set his show i…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:04AM
Friday, August 19, 2011

James Acaster – review by Brian Logan

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe liveliest moments in newcomer James Acaster's show are supplied by the audience. At the performance I see, he is accused by a woman in the third row of bein…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PM
Thursday, August 18, 2011

Humphrey Ker – review by Brian Logan

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghOne-third of the sketch troupe Penny Dreadfuls, Humphrey Ker uses his first solo show to tell a tale of second world war derring-do, in a style that fans of Com…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:45PM

An Evening with David Sedaris – review by Brian Logan

EICC, EdinburghFew authors could label a book-reading session as comedy and sell out five nights at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. Yet David Sedaris can, and the event – a …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:43PM

New Edinburgh act of the day: Anyone for Tennis? by Brian Logan

Flight of the Conchords they're not – but this musical comic duo win game, set and match when it comes to cheeky charmThe shtick: Anyone for Tennis? – two Melbourne lads anatomising in r…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:05AM
Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen – review by Brian Logan

Assembly George Square, EdinburghPerhaps it's against the spirit of a variety night to crave less variety. But – as with their Edinburgh comedy award-nominated 2008 show – I left Hot Tub…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:50PM

Tom Rosenthal – review by Brian Logan

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghA butler welcomes the audience at the start of Tom Rosenthal's show, separating us into haves and have-nots with a velvet rope. Rosenthal – son of TV sports r…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:44PM

Edinburgh festival 2011: Improvisation on the fringe - video by Brian Logan and Alex Healey

Brian Logan explores different types of improvisation on the Edinburgh fringe, and takes a Chaucerian workshop with the 'hard bardic' group The School of NightHe meets the Phill Jupitus Quar…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:31AM
Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Toby: Lucky by Brian Logan

Pleasance CourtyardAs if the double-act relationship weren't complicated enough, along comes Toby – real-life sisters Sarah and Lizzie Daykin – with their show Lucky to add a delicious n…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:15PM

Fear of a Brown Planet – review by Brian Logan

Gilded Balloon, EdinburghYou can't say Australian duo Aamer Rahman and Nazeem Hussain aren't up to the minute. Their show, Fear of a Brown Planet, starts with weeks-old news footage in which…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:14PM

New Edinburgh Act of the Day: Sheeps by Brian Logan

This trio of Footlights graduates have the personality, sketches and style to prosper, once they stop following the herd …The shtick: Three erudite young chaps do sketches, and then do the…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:26AM
Monday, August 15, 2011

Russell Kane – review by Brian Logan

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghRussell Kane thinks he has a problem. In the shows that marked Kane's ascent to the higher rungs of standup, his tyrannical dad loomed large. Now he's …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PM

Imran Yusuf – review by Brian Logan

Pleasance CourtyardImran Yusuf arrived under the radar on last year's fringe, performing a free show in preparation for a crack at the big time in 2011. But the big time wouldn't wait: Yusuf…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:14AM

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