2,036 stories by "Brian Logan"
Soho theatre, LondonFrom Jerry Sadowitz in a Santa hat earlier this week, to David Hoyle's Christmas tree draped with dolls' heads and condoms, festive-phobes are spoiled for jaundiced enter…
Leicester Square Theatre, London"It doesn't interest me," said Jerry Sadowitz in a recent interview, when asked about his now notorious 1980s routine that branded Jimmy Savile a paedophile. …
Invisible Dot, LondonThree hundred and sixty-four presents. That's how many you'd get if you were given everything mentioned in The Twelve Days of Christmas. Nick Mohammed has worked this ou…
How close we came to losing a classic double act, standup discovers suspect package and Frankie Boyle's latest scrapThis week's comedy newsMorecambe and … no one? A "what if?" story from c…
Performance artist David Hoyle has paired up with the composer of Jerry Springer: the Opera for an alternative take on Christmas cabaret. The pair talk satanists, gay soldiers and why their …
Soho Theatre, LondonJudith Lucy is a household name in Australia, but making her London debut at the Soho Theatre, she's asking us to "think of this less as a gig, more as a worksh…
Soho theatre, LondonThe show is called Romance and Adventure, but that's deceptive, says Josie Long: it should be called "how do you carry on when you're in the pit of despair?" Long makes p…
Orchard theatre, DartfordI don't think you should ever have to grow up, says Greg Davies " and the Inbetweeners and Cuckoo star puts the point into practice in his new touring show. You mig…
In this week's roundup: illustrious actors to star in a new sitcom called Vicious Old Queens, and Fey makes her displeasure known at 'grey-faced men' sounding off about rapeThis week's comed…
Hammersmith Apollo, LondonIs it laughable for a young, single male to fret that he may never have children? Is the biological clock something that only ticks for women? Russell Kane is alien…
Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe Albert Hall doesn't look as stately as it did " but it's still incongruous to see Joan Rivers in this grand old rotunda, making the air curl with malice, mi…
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Mr Bean star campaigns against act outlawing 'insulting words', Frankie Boyle wins more than £50,000 in libel damages … and one standup spectator laughs so hard she goes into labourThis…
Purcell Room, LondonWhy are penises funny? Why is there so much anxiety surrounding their size? Half sex seminar, half comedy show, Richard Herring's Talking Cock has risen ag…
Soho, LondonThis isn't Shappi Khorsandi's first show about a failed relationship, but it is the first where her niceness doesn't get in the way. On her current tour, she is talking about an …
Boyle sues the Mirror for libel, Silverman learns not to cross a rabbi, and Stephen K Amos gets the last " and longest " laughThis week's comedy newsWe've been arguing about "offensive" come…
Soho theatre, LondonIt's not assured that a standup who is huge on Twitter will translate to the stage. Good to report, then, that US comic Rob Delaney " 619,000 followers and counting " is …
The Seinfeld star discusses the episode that ended his standup career, Daniel Radcliffe and Jon Hamm get revolutionary " and an unexpected side to Bruce ForsythThis week, we finally get the …
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The Seinfeld star discusses the episode that ended his standup career, Daniel Radcliffe and Jon Hamm get revolutionary " and an unexpected side to Bruce ForsythThe week's comedy newsThis wee…
Invisible Dot, LondonCaptain Scott, Amundsen, Shackleton: their heroic exploits are well documented. But until now, who knew about Rory Sheridan's error-strewn 1914 voyage to Antarctica " un…
Bloomsbury theatre, LondonThose of us who have long believed John Shuttleworth's songs to harbour untapped reserves of musical and emotional potency could hardly resist this breast cancer ch…
Ronnie Scott's, LondonComedy is "a conveyor belt of idiots who want to make a career out of panel shows", a belligerent Keith Allen tells us at the relaunch of Peter Cook's legendary comedy …
Soho theatreIn their current show, Model Citizens, sketch troupe Idiots of Ants make a big deal of the audience. One of their number, Elliott Tiney, becomes (to the musical accompaniment of …
As cult comics speak to us from beyond the grave, Julian Clary and Airplane display their enduring popularityBest of this week's newsCult comics speak to us from beyond the grave this week, …
