UK comedy stalwart and broadcaster Linda Smith died on Monday, three years
after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer. She was forty eight.
Radio 4 listeners voted her Britains wittiest living person, she was a
regular on News Quiz, Have
I Got News For You?, QI and Mock the Week, and she also wrote and starred in
two series of her own radio sitcom - Linda Smith's A Brief History of Time
Wasting.
Some quotes to give you a sense of her:
On WMD: "I sympathise with people trying to find them. I'm like that with
scissors - I put them down, then search all over the house and never find
them".
On Tim Henman, British tennis player: "He's the human equivalent of
beige."
She was also a public humanist, say that "With fundamentalism of many kinds
of the rise, the rational voice of humanism needs to be heard. I see publicising
humanism in order that other people might identify themselves not just
negatively as atheists, but positively as humanists, as a vital part of my
role".
