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Brendon Burns

August 2015

  • The Wrestling

    The Wrestling at Edinburgh festival review – must be seen to be believed

    Twenty standups and wrestlers clamber into the ring and smack down in Max and Ivan’s spectacular sporting-panto free-for-all

August 2014

  • Brendon Burns

    Brendon Burns: why I'll be back with my Arnold Schwarzenegger routine

    This year at the Edinburgh festival I'm mimicking Arnie, one of the earliest anti-comedians

February 2014

  • Bill Hicks

    Brendon Burns on Bill Hicks: 'I felt like he was speaking directly to me'

    When Bill Hicks died 20 years ago this month, Brendon Burns mourned his comic hero – but taking standups too seriously does them a massive disservice

August 2013

  • Edinburgh comedy diary
    Is Brendon Burns right that alternative comedy is dead?

    Standup Brendon Burns suggests that putting comedians in pigeonholes doesn't make sense. Plus: old-school laughs on the Free Fringe, and comics have the last laugh on the football field

November 2012

  • Blue streak … Brendon Burns.

    Comedy gold: the best standup on DVD
    Comedy gold: Brendon Burns's So I Suppose This Is Offensive Now?

    Leo Benedictus: Despite his wildman image, some real thought has gone into Burns's act, which pokes fun at the omnipresence of bigotry

August 2012

  • Brendan Burns, comedian

    Portrait of the artist
    Brendon Burns, comedian – portrait of the artist

    'Standups don't get groupies? That's a myth perpetuated to put girlfriends at ease'

November 2011

  • Brendon Burns

    This week's new comedy

    Brendon Burns: Y'Know - Love 'n' God 'n' Metaphysics 'n' Shit | Sarah Kendall | Steve Hall's Very Still Life

November 2010

  • Brendon Burns

    This week's new comedy

    Brendon Burns: Y'Know – Love'N'God'N'Metaphysics And Shit | Judith Owen And Harry Shearer's Holiday Sing-Along | Dr Brown: Because

August 2010

  • josie long

    Amnesty International's comedy podcast
    The Amnesty International Comedy Podcast from the Edinburgh festival: episode 2

    Brendon Burns, Josie Long and Jim Jefferies feature on the second Amnesty International Comedy Podcast from the Edinburgh fringe 2010, presented by Susan Calman

August 2009

  • Brendon Burns at the Guardian's Edinburgh comedy podcast

    Live at the Edinburgh Festival
    Live at the Edinburgh Festival: Brendon Burns and Pappy's Fun Club

    Miles Jupp invites you to another binge of fringe comedy. Rob Rouse, Alun Cochrane and Brendon Burns are firing off the funnies, and there are performances from Pappy's Fun Club, Domestic Goddi and Pete Johansson

July 2009

  • richard herring standup comedian

    'There isn't a "New Offensiveness"'

    Richard Herring
  • brendan burns comedy standup

    'There is no New Offenders movement. We don't have a clubhouse'

    Brendon Burns
  • Richard Herring and Brendon Burns

    Reporting on comedy's new offenders wasn't intended to offend

  • Pick of the week: Comedy

May 2009

  • Pick of the week: Comedy

  • Brendon Burns

February 2009

  • Bill Hicks

    Under the influence: standups remember Bill Hicks

    On the 15th anniversary of his death, Bill Hicks is still comedy at its most exciting, says Brian Logan. In a special tribute to the much-imitated American funnyman, Brendon Burns, Lucy Porter, Dara O’Briain, Marcus Brigstocke and Shappi Khorsandi offer their views on the ‘comedian’s comedian’

November 2008

  • Brendon Burns, standup comedian

    Celebrity squares
    'You run around being a complete loser'

    Celebrity Squares: Comedian Brendon Burns thinks life might be easier without his Xbox 360 ... but not half as much fun

September 2008

  • Picks of the week: South: Comedy

    Steve Coogan | Brendon Burns: Under Educated | Jimmy Carr: Joke Technician

August 2008

  • Pick of the week: Comedy

    Michael Redmond's Sunday Service | Brendon Burns |
    Chris Rock

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