Laura is a working-class Comedian, actor and writer hailing from East London. Laura came into the industry after a 10 year career as an English teacher, she’s also a mother of three Laura, her own inimitable style gets to the truth of the human experience, treading the line between bluntness and warmth and very funny and infinitely relatable.
Laura took her debut stand-up show Living My Best Life on tour nationwide lastyear. Originally intended for a 29-date run the tour was extended due to phenomenal demand to 48 dates, culminating in a third and final London show at the Indigo O2.
In 2019 Laura won the Funny Women Awards having only been doing comedy for 5 months. Since then, she has continued to take the comedy scene by storm; a favourite on the live circuit Laura has supported Jack Whitehall and Michelle de Swarte on tour and played the Comedy Arena at Latitude, Reading and Leeds Festivals.
Laura appeared in all 6 episodes of Outsiders series 3, she and Chris McCausland competed against Judi Love & Guz Khan and Roisin Conaty and Alan Davies in David Mitchell’s series for Dave. She hosted the London heat of the BBC New Comedy Awards the last two years running, she’s also appeared on Cats Does Countdown (C4), Live At The Apollo (BBC) Frankie Boyle’s New World Order (BBC), The Jonathan Ross Show (ITV), Richard Osman’s House of Games (BBC), The Weakest Link (BBC), QI (BBC), Saturday Kitchen (BBC), Between the Covers (BBC) As Yet Untitled (Dave), Yesterday, Today and the Day Before (CC) and Would I Lie To You (BBC).
Her BBC Radio 4 comedy special I Don’t Know What to Say, which she wrote and performed, won The Gold Prize Comedy Award at the 2024 ARIAS (the Oscars of the UK Audio world), triumphing over fellow nominees Kathy Burke’s Where There's a Will There's a Wake, The Frank Skinner Show and The Skewer. I Don’t Know What to Say has also been shortlisted for a BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Stand-Up show. She also co-hosted ‘Bang On It’ for BBC Sounds which won the Bronze award at The British Podcast Awards.
Laura’s Radio 4 comedy-entertainment series Your Mum(6x30) which she hosts airs in June and includes guests on the series include Iain Stirling, Kiri Pritchard Mclean, Arlene Phillips and Jo Brand.
Her brand-new podcast "Shouldn’t Laugh But" is released weekly and joins Laura with her best mate Carmen as they let their intrusive thoughts win and laugh at all the things they know they shouldn’t, as they mull over all the daft things that happened to them and others across the week.
Critic reviews for Living My Best Life:
‘Not just a comedian, a phenomenon’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐The Evening Standard
‘wickedly funny…a big-hitting good-time comic’ The Guardian
Praise for Laura Smyth:
“Utterly hilarious a proper star in the making” Jack Whitehall
“One of the best acts I’ve seen in a long, long time” Romesh Ranganathan
“A comic powerhouse” Mo Gilligan