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. Arthur Smith Read Quote
Someone once described me as the Zelig of comedy, and I think I know what he means. Arthur Smith Read Quote
I’m an armchair kind of guy, especially when it’s raining, which it always is and always will be. Arthur Smith Read Quote
Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the scary George Bush person: all these things are important and should be animating me into outrage. Yet somehow they do not. Arthur Smith Read Quote
I’ve noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn’t going to do anyway so here’s something more positive. I’m going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school. Arthur Smith Read Quote
Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world. Arthur Smith Read Quote
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. Arthur Smith Read Quote
