Linda Smith
- English
- Stand-up comedian and writer
Press clippings
Comedians join the line-up of Laugharne Weekend
The line-up this year includes Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Jen Brister, Nick Revell, Mark Thomas and Fast Show star-turned-author Charlie Higson.
Robin Ince will reprise his 2021 Linda Smith lecture, which involved talking and smashing a watermelon. The Linda Smith Lecture was established in 2015 as an annual event to celebrate the much missed comedian's life and work and to reflect on the comedy business.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 13th February 2022Comedians on their stand-up heroes
We've done a lot of things in lockdown - followed the news obsessively, become amateur crafters, howled with despair - but laughing hasn't been one of them. Thank goodness, then, for the BBC's Festival Of Funny, celebrating all things comedy. To mark the occasion, we asked some of our favourite comedians to tell us which stand-up they love the most.
Nancy Durrant, Evening Standard, 7th March 2021Jo Brand: pretty female comics fare better
Attractive female comedians do better in the business than ordinary-looking women, Jo Brand has claimed.
Chortle, 2nd May 2019My comedy hero: Angela Barnes
Winner of the 2011 BBC New Comedy Award and Edinburgh Fringe favourite chooses her comic idols.
Brian Donaldson, The List, 17th April 2019Why Just a Minute hides a far more ruthless reality
Just A Minute has become one of the nation's most beloved radio shows -- but it began as a classroom humiliation, inflicted on daydreamers by a history teacher at Sherborne School in the Thirties.
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 1st December 2017How comedy captured the Edinburgh Fringe: part 3
In the third part of our Fringe history, two long-forgotten venues put comedy before theatre with the help of Austin Powers and a Wonder Dog.
Ben Venables, The Skinny, 11th July 2017Linda Smith's wit remembered 10 years after her death
The Radio 4 and stand-up comedy superstar passed away ten years ago today and the world is a much less funny place without her.
Carl Greenwood, The Mirror, 27th February 2016Loving Linda - who couldn't?
The annual comedy benefit in memory of the glorious Linda Smith takes place in Edinburgh this week. Comedian Angela Barnes takes time out ahead of the gig to remember the lady who made her believe she could be what she now is.
Angela Barnes, Standard Issue, 18th August 2015Linda Smith cheerfully skewered the Tories
She always came across as reasonable and down-to-earth, but Linda Smith articulated her anger at injustices with vitriolic precision.
Oliver Double, The Guardian, 10th June 2015Mark Thomas presents first Linda Smith Lecture
Comedian Mark Thomas is to present the inaugural Linda Smith Lecture at the Gulbenkian Theatre in Canterbury on May 12. The talk is being put on by The British Stand-Up Comedy Archive as part of a series of events this year.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 14th January 2015