Arthur Smith
Arthur Smith

Arthur Smith (I)

  • 69 years old
  • English
  • Actor, writer and stand-up comedian

Press clippings

Meet the latest additions to the 2024 Chortle Comedy Book Festival

Arthur Smith, Harriet Kemsley, Matthew Crosby and Brenda Gilhooly have joined the line-up of this year's Chortle Student Comedy Award.

Chortle, 20th February 2024

Edinburgh chainsaw massacre: the 10 boldest - and most idiotic - Fringe stunts

At the Fringe, it's not enough to put on a blockbuster show - you've got to get people talking. These shows achieved just that.

Alex Diggins, The Telegraph, 7th August 2023

Edinburgh Festival Fringe: 26 photos looking back at the Fringe in the 1980s

So many memories from August in Edinburgh in the 1980s.

Kevin Quinn, Edinburgh Evening News, 23rd July 2023

Review: Fast Fringe at Leicester Square Theatre

This bumper London edition of Edinburgh treat Fast Fringe is a wham-bam parade of quick-as-lightning stand up, sketches and musical comedy. The night is the perfect fringe megamix of three-minute wonders, perfect for those with goldfish-like attention spans.

Rupert Dannreuther, To Do List, 17th July 2023

Arthur Smith - Me & My Money interview

'I cashed in my pension to cope in pandemic and that's no joke'.

Donna Ferguson, This is Money, 3rd June 2023

Arthur Smith crowned Legend of Comedy at Leicester Comedy Awards 2023

Arthur Smith, Fatiha El-Ghorri, Bethany Black, Stuart Goldsmith, CSI: Crime Scene Improvisation and Shelf were amongst the winners at the Leicester Comedy Festival Awards 2023. Geoff Rowe, who is stepping back after having run the festival for 30 years, received a surprise Lifetime Contribution trophy.

British Comedy Guide, 27th March 2023

Rubbish World Of Dave Spud Series 3 confirmed

CITV has confirmed a third series of animated comedy series The Rubbish World Of Dave Spud.

British Comedy Guide, 20th January 2023

Arthur Smith's Edinburgh Fringe hit transfers to Pleasance London in 2023

Arthur Smith's show My First 75 Years In Comedy will transfer to Pleasance London in March 2023.

Theatre Weekly, 3rd January 2023

Review - Arthur Smith: My First 75 Years In Comedy

It seems the Edinburgh Fringe - the mantra of which, apparently, is "get drunk, get laid, get spotted, get paid" - may now have seen the last of Arthur Smith but if this evening was anything to go by, he still has a great deal to offer.

Adrian Peel, Cambridge Independent, 21st October 2022

These computer generated posters of comedians will give you nightmares

Artificial intelligence is getting good at generating images... but it's not perfect yet. Comedy writer and performer David Reed has demonstrated this by getting a computer to generate posters for some well-known comedians, and posting the results on Twitter. Prepare to have nightmares...

British Comedy Guide, 13th October 2022