My Name is Daphne Fairfax

''My name is Arthur Smith, unless there''s anybody here from the Streatham tax office. In which case, I''m Daphne Fairfax.'' This has been Arthur''s opening line at hundreds of stand-up comedy performances. In fact, he is neither Daphne nor Arthur. Friends and family know him as Brian.

One of the ''alternative comedians'' who shook up light entertainment in the eighties and nineties, Arthur (and Br...