Summary
CD edition of the autobiography of one of Britain’s best-loved alternative comedians.
‘My name is Arthur Smith, unless there’s anybody here from the Streatham tax office. In which case, I’m Daphne Fairfax.’ This is a line Arthur has used at a thousand different stand-up gigs.
In fact, he is neither Daphne or Arthur. Family and old friends know him as Brian.
Arthur Smith is best known as a comedian, a broadcaster and an opening bat for Grumpy Old Men. But he has also be…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781846571794 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1846571790 |
| Author: | Arthur Smith |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Random House Audiobooks |
| Format: | Compact Disc |
| Number of Pages: | 5 |
| Release Date: | 15 May 2009 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 142mm x 125mm x 25mm |
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…witty, self-aware and poignant.
…witty, self-aware and poignant. * Observer *This droll and wise comedian’s testament almost ends with a joke-free bout of acute necrotising pancreatisis (like “a mad rodent inside me”). As this book’s existence hints, Arthur Smith - Daphne Fairfax, if you’re from the tax office - survived, the better to redeem the clapped-out name of “alternative” comedy with a memoir that doubles as an acute slice of social history. Childhood with Syd and Hazel in London’s tatty south merges HG Wells with Carry On…. UEA student years and Parisian scrapes lead into the stand-up heyday with mates such as Malcolm Hardee, “a debauched Eric Morecambe”. Smith’s tone of mordant pathos touches as much as it tickles. Greenwich, Balham, Bermondsey - be proud of him. * Independent *
About The Author
Arthur Smith
Born in 1954, Arthur Smith is an alternative comedian and writer. He was born in Bermondsey and now lives in Balham.
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