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"Funny, poignant, interesting and charming. This is how life should be lived, (apart from where he nearly dies)" (John O'Farrell)

"All the qualities which make Arthur Smith such a success on the stage are here... by drawing out the comedy in humdrum reality he keeps one constantly smiling" (The Scotsman)

"The loveable old codger rolls out his memoirs, full of so-barking-they-must-be-true stories of his youth and stand-up career" (Metro)

"...witty, self-aware and poignant" (The Observer)

"...it radiates a glow of whimsy and invention" (Independent on Sunday)
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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 (his plays include An Evening with Gary Lineker) 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.

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  • PublisherArrow
  • Publication date2010
  • ISBN 10 0099519658
  • ISBN 13 9780099519652
  • BindingTapa blanda
  • Number of pages416
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