Arthur Smith
Arthur Smith
fans last takes whatever year
They were all fans of the show last year - and they come in and do whatever it takes to win.
amazing offered programs variety
It's just amazing to see the variety of programs offered at the school.
among appalled hardest job people slightly
When they meet a stand-up comic, people sometimes remark: 'That must be the hardest job in the world.' Among comedians, only Freddie Starr is not embarrassed and slightly appalled by this remark.
cheap comics learned load love people tv
Because comedy is cheap to put on: if you've got a play or an opera, there's a whole load of people and a set, but comedy is just one man or woman. And because TV has learned to love comics - there's so many more around now than when I started out.
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.
dies
When a writer dies you get a higher standard of obituary.
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?
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.
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.
doubt few provides time
The Bible has no doubt had much influence in its time, but it provides very few laughs. None, in fact.
author weighs
The book may be garbage, but if it weighs in at a kilo or more, I stand before its author in awe.
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.
rain guy kind
I'm an armchair kind of guy, especially when it's raining, which it always is and always will be.
fashion men bothered
Obviously I am not bothered about men's fashion - is anyone, apart from Jonathan Ross?