Brian Logan
Eddie Pepitone - review
Eddie Pepitone was an unlikely guest star in the gossip columns last summer, when Hugh Grant was turned away from one of his Edinburgh Fringe shows.Doc Brown - review
What happens to a rapper when he grows up? Doc Brown is 35, with a wife, two kids, and a promising career in comedy, twinning his macho artform with softie subject matter. A budding partnership with Ricky Gervais - they collaborated on David Brent's Co
Paul F Tompkins - review
Soho theatre, London "Ladies and gentlemen, how do we get back to my prepared material in a graceful way?" Halfway through American standup Paul F Tompkins ' set, an audience member collapses, an interval is called, and the emergency services are summon
Doctor Brown - review
At the end of this show, Doctor Brown widens his arms, impossibly wide, to wrap us all in a big hug. Then one hand wanders downwards, and he's pretending to jerk us off. That tension, between cute clowning and outright molestation, gives this award-winninLouis CK - review
Some standups are sunny, others wallow in filth. Louis CK , the hippest comic in the English-speaking world right now , is an intriguing mix of both. On stage and in his sitcom, Louie, he's made his name as a chronicler of rumpled, middle-aged AmericanSarah Silverman - review
Bloomsbury theatre, London Talk about a statement of intent. Sarah Silverman 's first line tonight, a beat after her intro music subsides, is: "I was brutally raped to that song." After the collapse of her last UK gig ( fans protested when she finished
Harry Hill - review
New theatre, Oxford "I'm a 48-year-old ex-doctor," wails Harry Hill , "trying to get laughs out of a baby's belt in a baguette." This is halfway through Sausage Time, his first standup show since 2005 , and by this stage, the belt-in-the-baguette gag (Sarah Kendall - review
Soho theatre Ikea ads, greengrocers and the work of Hans Christian Andersen: wherever Sarah Kendall looks, sexism looms large. Since her last full show, the former Perrier award nominee has become mother to a little girl, which has sharpened her focus
Alexei Sayle - review
Soho theatre, London It's "fucking terrifying" returning to standup after 17 years, says Alexei Sayle , and in the first five minutes, you wonder if he is going to pull it off. This is a man who in his pomp channelled naked aggression on stage - and