Twice as funny: Logan brings wit to stage, page


By John Benson

The comedian says she works clean.

The leap over two decades ago from Hallmark cartoonist-artist-writer to stand-up comedian proved quite seamless for Teresa Roberts Logan. After all, there’s very little difference between coming up with creative and funny artistic situations during the day and humorous anecdotes at night.

“The way I got into comedy was I was working at Hallmark and we had to give a presentation,” said Logan, calling from her Colonial Williamsburg, Va., home. “Normally everybody does these boring slide shows, so we decided to do a game show called ‘You Bet Your Job.’

“I dressed up as a guy in a leisure suit and just improv-ed the whole thing. People laughed.”

Afterward, Logan was approached by a colleague who moonlighted as a stand-up comedian. Soon she was observing open-mic nights at comedy clubs before she finally made her debut and didn’t bomb. While Logan still maintains both careers to this day in the form of a humorist illustrator and a working stand-up comedian, one thing rings true between both passions.

“I’ve always worked clean,” Logan said. “I’m just generally myself up there, but I do have trouble keeping the language clean when I’m driving.”

When she’s not busy entertaining audiences, which these days are mostly corporate or private gigs in theaters, Logan can be found busy in her studio working on many different projects, including her humorist writing.

“Basically it’s observational and day-to-day stuff,” Logan said. “Things that are pet peeves and things that drive me nuts and are quirky observations. For example, why we are so self-obsessed? Do we really think people in Starbucks are staring at our teeth and not thinking they’re white enough?”

She added, “It’s similar to my stand-up, where I talk about stupid things. Like I live in Colonial Williamsburg and everything is named colonial. I even saw an ad for the ear surgery place called Colonial Ear Surgery. Like we really want to get back to that technology. I don’t know if my HMO covers a leech on a Q-tip.”

Even though Logan’s r sum includes appearances on A&E’S “Evening at the Improv,” The Comedy Channel and The Hallmark Channel, and she’s opened for Jerry Seinfeld, Dana Carvey and Drew Carey, she prefers a few stand-up gigs a month. This leaves her time to spend with family and work on her humorist writing. In fact, Logan recently released a new comedy based cartoon book “The Older I Get, the Less I Care.”

“I’d say my print stuff is more edgy and more alternative because when you’re doing standup you need to be more likable, and frankly I worry less about being likable in print,” Logan said.

When it’s mentioned that Logan’s Sunday appearance in the Mahoning Valley is at a Ladies Day affair (a fundraiser for St. Mary and Joseph School in Newton Falls), the Christian comedian said she can’t wait. Her reason why may be surprising.

“I love playing women’s groups,” Logan said. “I think you can be looser and probably don’t have to worry so much. It’s not like I worry a lot, but you do edit yourself when you’re in front of mixed groups, more than you edit yourself in front of a big group of women.”

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