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‘My name is Arthur Smith, unless there’s anybody
here from the Streatham tax office. In which case,
I’m Daphne Fairfax’.
This has been Arthur’s opening line at hundreds of
stand-up comedy performances. In fact, he is
neither Daphne nor Arthur. Friends and family
know him as Brian. One of the ‘alternative
comedians’ who shook up light entertainment in
the eighties and nineties, Arthur (and Brian) is also
a broadcaster, an opening bat for Grumpy Old Men,
a West End playwright and a guest on innumerable
radio and TV panel shows.
In My Name is Daphne Fairfax, he reflects on the
nature of comedy and his days as a scruffy kid on
the bombsites of Bermondsey, a wild-haired
undergraduate, a roadsweeper, an English teacher,
a failed rock star, a boozed-up sexual adventurer
and an intensive care patient who has been told
never to drink again. Hilarious, scandalous and
rude, his memoir incorporates a tender tribute to
his parents and a vigorous account of the peculiar
business of being alive.
Arthur lives in South London with his partner Beth
and is the mayor of Balham (self-proclaimed).
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