FRESH from donkey’s years on his award-winning Radio 4 series and the success of his BBC sitcom, Count Arthur Strong will get back to doing what he does best - live comedy.

The man himself has embarked on a new tour in a bid to spread his malapropisms to the four corners of the nation.

In Somebody Up There Licks Me, he will be doing all sorts of wonderful things for you as you sit there quietly sucking your Maltesers, not getting up to go to the toilet, and applauding loudly at the appropriate moments.

“I think we are scratching the surface of the things Arthur can do,” says Steve Delaney, aka Count Arthur Strong.

“That’s what keeps me going. In 1999, Arthur looked like a younger man and quite caricatural. It shows me how much he’s changed over the years. I don’t feel as though I’m playing Arthur. He probably is an extension of me.

“When I started I said he was an amalgam of all my shortcomings. But I hope he’s become something a bit more interesting than that. I do feel he grows. “ You’ll laugh, cry and the other one!

Count Arthur Strong will be ably supported on stage by Terry Kilkelly as Malcom de Tinsell, from Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! and Dave Plimmer, who features in Count Arthur Strong on BBC1, as Allan Leslie.

Arthur will be at the Wyvern Theatre tonight at 8pm.Tickets cost £18.50 and are available from the box office on 01793 524481 or via the website www.swindontheatres.co.uk.

- MARION SAUVEBOIS