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Russell Howard’s Five Brilliant Things

30. Laura Smyth

Russell Howard’s Five Brilliant Things

Avalon

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.5567 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Laura Smyth is a comedian who is going stratospheric, quick. She’s a brilliant performer with a wicked turn of phrase who’s going to be on all the shows and in all the theatres before you know it.   Laura comes into the studio to fill her Wonderbox, and gives it both barrels. She talks about telling drunk lies to her kids and about the thrill of being given a secret gift from Stephen Fry.   Laura is on tour-a! She’s on her first full tour of the UK, in theatres and arts centres near you. It's called ‘Living My Best Life’ and it’s happening right now. Find out when Laura is near you and grab some tickets by going to laurasmyth.com.  That’s quite enough Wonderbox for one week. But there’s surely more next week. We’ll see you then. Take is easy, my friend.   Producer: Dan Atkinson Line Producer: Daisy Knight Exec Producer: James Taylor Composer: Fat Lady Music Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The weight is over. Last One Laughing is back and it's even more brutal than last time. Share your biggest regrets. I don't regret this haircut. What did you ask for? The Shaggy Slim Shady? Joining us this series we have... Romish Wengrenner Nathan, Diane Morgan, David Mitchell, Mel Gedroich, Amy Gledhill, Alan Carr, Bemi Sola, Ike Melo, Sam Campbell, Maisie Adam and Bob Mortimer.

0:21.6

Anyone want a song?

0:22.6

No.

0:23.6

Last One Laughing, new series, watch now, only on Prime Video. Hello, my guest on this week's show is a comic who's only been around for a couple of years,

0:43.4

and is already on her first full UK tour.

0:47.1

She's got brilliant stories.

0:48.7

She's very funny.

0:50.1

This is Laura Smith's Wonderbox.

0:57.0

So, I'm here with the brilliant Laura Smith.

1:00.0

Hello mate, how are you?

1:01.0

I'm very well, how are you?

1:02.0

I'm very well indeed.

1:03.0

So it was your first tour gig last night.

1:07.0

It was.

1:08.0

How was it?

1:09.0

It was brilliant. It was really good.

1:10.0

Debut tour. debut tour and you just have no, well, you have no measure from was it? It was brilliant. It was really good.

1:11.6

Debut tour. And you just have no, well, you have no measure from how it's going to sell. And then you have no measure of how it's going to go down and I've been doing loads of sort of prep for it. But it just felt good. I mean, mostly, I remember it all. You're like tick. I got to the end. got to the end. That's how it felt. But it was electric. It was a really

1:28.5

nice audience and so I couldn't have asked for more really to start off. I'm looking forward to this because you're very funny, you're very bubbly and there's levels to you. So I think this could be an eclectic range of things that you've put into the box. So what is the first thing in the wonder the wonder box? What are you putting in? Well, I do go for a book first. Okay. I had lots of choices and I went for a book because I used to be a teacher of literature and my favorite book in the whole world world is, and it's not just my favorite, but it's Truman Capote's The Grass Harp. Maybe it's a novella rather than a novel.

2:14.8

But it's one of those books that I've had to buy so many times because I love it so much that if anyone's ever going through something, I'll go, oh, have this book. You know, and then I end up giving it. I said, no, no, no, don't give it back. And they don't want to give it back because they love it too. So I end up just buying it all the time. You can't really get it on Amazon.

2:18.8

I end up finding it on like a small Abe book sort of used bookseller.

2:19.2

Yeah.

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