'An Audience with Arthur Smith' will be live at Taunton Brewhouse on Friday 20th January 2023

Often described as the compère beyond compare, but before becoming a fully-fledged playwright, panellist, performer, and stalwart of the Edinburgh Festival, Arthur Smith worked as a road sweeper, dustman, market researcher, teacher, and even advertised chicken burgers in supermarkets dressed as a fox.

A career in comedy was the only one that could follow a build up like that. He was one of many stand-up performers on the alternative comedy scene in the eighties. Twenty years on, he still performs in much the same manner, and perhaps ironically, now describes himself as a “semi-professional” comedian.

To BBC radio and TV audiences, his career has been split between appearing on top quiz shows, fronting the funny section on Loose Ends, and being a regular Grumpy Old Man and Countdown wordsmith. His plays include the award-winning An Evening with Gary Lineker, My Summer with Des, and The Bed Show. He has also presented Radio 4’s Excess Baggage and Radio 2’s The Smith Lectures. He describes himself as Radio 4’s “bit of rough.”

Visit Taunton

Taunton is a pleasant Somerset town, with picturesque streets lined with many fine houses and buildings. The impressive 163 ft red sandstone tower of St Mary Magdalene's church (circa 1488) faces the mainly Georgian thoroughfare of Hammet Street, with its long line of white porticoed houses. Georgian architecture also abounds in the High Street. These blend with the 16th-c. Municipal Buildings in nearby Corporation Street, which was originally a grammar school.

Taunton is steeped in history and has much to entertain our visitors, from the superb Somerset Museum in the remnants of the castle to the Cricket Ground and Racecourse. A centre for Arts and Culture, it has shops, cafes, restaurants, riverside walks and a weekly Farmers’ Market.

Booking Details:

Price: £ 25.50

Venue: Taunton Brewhouse

Date: Friday 20th January 2023

Time: 19:30

Booking link: https://www.tauntonbrewhouse.co.uk/book/?show=337801ARHDCJDVDQKBDMKMBNCDPPLQNVS

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