Andy Smart | |
|---|---|
 Smart performing in 2019 | |
| Born | 16 June 1959 |
| Died | 16 May 2023 (aged 63) |
| Occupation(s) | Comedian, actor, writer and TV panel show participant |
| Children | 2 |
Andy Smart (16 June 1959 – 16 May 2023) was an English comedian.
Smart performed as a guest with The Comedy Store Players for over 13 years, and a permanent member from 1995. Before joining the Players he was one half of the Vicious Boys with Angelo Abela. Together they won the 1984 Time Out Street Entertainer Award and later appeared on LWT's Wake Up London and Channel 4's The Tube, where, dressed as a bell boy and pretending to be a Great Dane, Smart licked Paula Yates' face.
Smart presented American Football on Channel 4 in 1987 alongside Abela.[1]
On The Graham Norton Show, Martin Freeman once mentioned that Smart saved him from choking on crisps using the Heimlich manoeuvre.[2]
He released a book about his life and career, A Hitch in Time: From Liverpool to Pamplona on a 72,000-Mile Road Trip, in 2019.[3]
- ^ "Andy Smart, comedian tour dates : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide". www.chortle.co.uk.
- ^ Martin Freeman has a fear of choking - The Graham Norton Show - BBC, archived from the original on 21 December 2021, retrieved 11 August 2021
- ^ Smart, Andy (25 July 2019). "A Hitch in Time: From Liverpool to Pamplona on a 72,000-Mile Road Trip". Automobile Association – via Amazon.