Arthur Smith
Arthur Smith
immediate rare response suspicion trying unlike
I have a suspicion that a lot of artists are trying to get a laugh but, unlike stand-ups, they don't get an immediate response from their audience; a laugh is a rare thing in a gallery.
came eight laughed offered school trying version wrote
When I was eight or nine, I wrote a new version of 'Peter Pan' for the school play. They didn't use it - I imagine it was unperformable - but as recompense for not doing my script, I was offered any role, and instinctively went for Captain Hook. I came on trying to be terrifying, but everyone laughed at me.
brain trying students
I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags.
ended later lunch point unless week
I couldn't really see the point of having lunch unless it started at one and ended a week later in Monte Carlo.
brutally last time until versus
This time it was much more intense. Last year, the contestants were kind of 'us versus Gordon' right up until the end - this was brutally competitive right from the beginning.
author weighs
The book may be garbage, but if it weighs in at a kilo or more, I stand before its author in awe.
doubt few provides time
The Bible has no doubt had much influence in its time, but it provides very few laughs. None, in fact.
bad
Sometimes it's bad to do something you've never done before.
Someone once described me as the Zelig of comedy, and I think I know what he means.
appeared humour introduce laughed
When synchronised swimming first appeared on TV, we laughed very heartily, and I, for one, applauded the decision to introduce humour into the Olympics.
admiring reader review savage
A savage review is much more entertaining for the reader than an admiring one; the little misanthrope in each of us relishes the rubbishing of someone else.
hours impressed meet pastime spend writers
I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours at the miserable, lonely pastime of creating fiction?
dies
When a writer dies you get a higher standard of obituary.
again given invited london love playing upsetting
It is London fashion week, and once again I haven't been invited to any shows. This is upsetting given my well-known love of fashion, or, as I think of it, playing with the dressing-up box.