Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hello, you are watching and listening to Shag Marginoid. Please keep me anonymous.
Hello, and this week we are joined by Laura Smith. Fantastic stand-up, spelt like Smith's Toys.
Chapter 2: What is Laura Smyth's journey from teaching to stand-up?
Is it Smith or is it Smythe? It's 100% Smith. Fair enough. She is promoting her 2036 UK tour, Aggie, and the tour starts in September this year and tickets are available at laurasmith, spelt like Smith's Toys, .com. She's also got a podcast with her best mate called Shouldn't Laugh But... So there we go.
Funny bones. Funny bones woman. Love chatting to her.
Yeah, we had a really good chat.
Well, I've seen clips of her live.
Yeah.
I would genuinely, I would love to see her live.
Well, I was, when I got a text saying that she was coming on the podcast, I was in the tour van with Carl Hutchinson and I turned to Carl and I said, oh, Laura Smith, because I'd never worked with her. I'd heard of her, but never worked with her. I said, and he went, oh, she's brilliant. And he started quoting her routines to us.
Nice. Oh, that's good.
When Carl Hutchinson remembers your routines and he doesn't remember much. When he remembers routines, you're a good comic. So, yeah, I hope you enjoyed the chat. It was great. Yay.
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Chapter 3: How does Laura describe her family dynamics and humor?
I couldn't bloody walk and I had to pull a gig. Oh, no. You know sometimes when it buys you a Friday night indoors. Well, you're quite glad of it. Yeah, I could barely walk. Oh, get you out of here.
Did you ever do that? So, you used to be a teacher.
I did.
Which is fascinating. But I remember when I used to work in a nursery.
Yeah.
And I remember just wanting to have a little car crash. Oh, yeah, a little car crash. I've said this so many times.
Yeah.
But just, it's one of them, the feeling of just like... Just a prang. Just a prang. Just a little bit of lash. Just a day off. Do you know what?
Not even whiplash, just a little bump.
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Chapter 4: What challenges did Laura face during the pandemic?
And it's not funny. There's nothing funny about it. Yeah, tell me. This story has to end with you shitting yourself because you're losing it. You're fucking losing me.
But I also, I really like sort of like tragedy as well. Oh, yeah. Like the fact that you literally came in and joked about your cancer within the first five minutes. I was like, I love that.
I know, I know.
But that's what I need in my life.
Yeah, you do need that. You do need that. People that just tell, you know, when they just cut through it and you're just like...
yeah and that was it nothing I always say it's like an East London thing but then I don't think it is I think it's a Geordie thing it's a it's a regional thing it's working class there you go people the way there's no bottom line I think if a tape recorder was left in a green room everyone would get cancelled because not there's no bottom line you want to say the worst funniest darkest fucking shit oh comedians are yeah the real comedy that you could never show on podcaster and telly is comedians in green rooms
horrible because we just want to top each other off and then it just gets so awful and silly but yeah so back to me back to me I always wanted to do it and I only admit it to my husband that that's what I wanted to do when I was teaching and he started telling people oh Laura's a teacher and a comedian so he just said it and then he bought me a day's writing course as a wedding gift with Logan Murray and it was the best day of my life it was other comedians and it was just this really great thing I love supportive I love that oh I love him oh that is so
what a dude what a dude oh mate we back each other one hand Alistair James Smith oh Alistair James Smith Alistair he's a good egg he's like the sort of I keep saying in our marriage I'm the batter he's the fielder
I mean I'm like so I think I've given him us together I've given a little bit of like fucking go on son you know what I mean and like he gigs and he's like been pushed forward but I think he's given me that sort of safe foundation he's just a safe pair of hands you know that kind of good vibes yeah
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Chapter 5: How does Laura's upbringing influence her comedy style?
Oh, that's such a good joke.
Do you know what I mean? If I feel like someone's having it off a bit better than me, or if a table erupts with laughter, I'll be like, tell me a joke.
we haven't told you this me and Carl and our tour manager went for a curry in Nottingham the other night and we had to move tables I didn't know about this Carl got there early and he got the table because I was doing I was trying to come up the stage door but there was people there for photos which was fine so I was taking the photos so I was a bit late and obviously we finished late and we won a curry so we get there and Carl goes oh we had to move tables he goes we were on that table but apparently there was a table of blokes there
And one bloke was like leaning out facing the other tables, loudly calling all of his mates gay because they were going home after the curry. And Carl said to them, he went in the waitress, he went, can we move to that table? And she went, yeah, something wrong. He went, nothing wrong, just don't want to be, don't relax this guy. And she went over to him.
She went to Carl, she went, did he see anything? He went, not me, but he's been pretty horrible to all of his friends and I just didn't want to be there while he was doing it.
I just never thought my coming out story was because I was done with the poppadoms and I was a bit tired.
How did you guess?
The rimming, we were fine with.
My point is that's a really good reason to move tables because the bloke is calling all of his mates for going home early.
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