Comedian and legend Arthur Smith talks influences John Hegley and the Thatcher era standupcomedy

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Famous comedian Arthur Smith interviewed by Steve Best on his roof in London. • Arthur Smith talks about his life while being interviewed and photographed. From his influences, one being the comedy poet John Hegley, to his name changing because of Equity, to his acute necrotizing pancreatitis due to alcohol, to the Edinburgh Fringe, to his future plans. • Arthur Smith - https://www.arthursmith.co.uk • Filmed by Frankie Lowe - https://www.frankielowe.com • All the stills of Arthur Smith were shot by Steve on his medium format Fujifilm GFX100s - https://fujifilm-x.com/global/product... • A superb camera - talk to me if you want to know more • My socials • Instagram - / stevebestpics • Twitter - / stevebestpics • Facebook - / stevebestpics • YouTube - / @stevebestshoots • Steve Best is a comedian and a photographer. He has done nothing else. He has never had another job. Steve was a finalist in the Young Magician of the Year in 1985, passed Grade 8 on the flute, learnt to ride a uni-cycle, can juggle 5 balls, and was in the under 14s Surrey county table tennis squad. When he was 19 he took up the guitar and sat for 8 hours a day practicing until his fingers were sore. • Steve has been all around the world being silly, toured with Frank Skinner, Omid Dialili and Craig Charles, been on TV a few times and is a visiting lecturer at Middlesex university teaching stand-up comedy on the third year drama course • He has always taken photographs. It was some 10 cars ago that he started bringing his camera into comedy clubs and shooting his fellow comics. He has two little chunky books published, Comedy Snapshot (Articul8 2014) and Joke Face (Unbound 2017) https://www.stevebest.com/books. Between them there are over 1000 of his photos of comedians from the UK comedy circuit, each with one of their own jokes and several of their weird and wonderful facts. It has never been done before and is a true documentation of the comedy world that he inhabits. During that time he started approaching the photographic documentation of the comedy circuit with much more of an artistic vision. HIs third book. COMEDIANS, is the culmination of the journey. • You can commission Steve Best to photograph your performance, special events or portraits. You can also book Steve to give his unique talk. • • Email: [email protected]

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