Parenting Hell with Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe - S8 EP8: Laura Smyth

Episode Date: February 2, 2024

Joining us this episode to discuss the highs and lows of parenting (and life) is the brilliant comedian - Laura Smyth. Laura Smyth will embark upon her debut UK tour of Living My Best Life from 4th April until 27th October. Tickets are available from https://laurasmyth.com/pages/tour-dates Parenting Hell is a Spotify Podcast, available everywhere every Tuesday and Friday. Please leave a rating and review you filthy street dogs... xx If you want to get in touch with the show here's how: EMAIL: [e-mail] INSTAGRAM: @parentinghell MAILING LIST: parentinghellpodcast.mailchimpsites.com  A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: [e-mail] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, I'm Rob Beckett. And I'm Josh Winnockham. Welcome to Parenting Hell, the show in which Josh and I discuss what it's really like to be a parent, which I would say can be a little tricky. So, to make ourselves and hopefully you feel better about the trials and tribulations of modern-day parenting, each week we're chatting to a famous parent about how they're coping. Or hopefully how they're they're tha be hearing from you the listener with your tips, advice and of course, tales of parenting woe. Because let's be honest, there are plenty of times when none of us know what we're doing.

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How many fucking holes is it? Or like, oh, maybe it's cheaper though for an adult not to go to the zoo, just for a child. Oh, right, yeah. Maybe that was it? I don't know. I don't know. How good is new ke-zoo? Yeah, I doubt it's so good that you could really put a like a hundred pound premium on it. I remember my brother and I got dropped when we were on holiday in South Wales. My parents wanted to do something but

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But not a 10-year-old on their own at the zoo. It's dangerous a zoo. I mean, why are you doing as a 10-year-old at the-year-old? their ten-year-old not allowed within 200 yards with 10 yards. Even waiting in industrial estates, but just those are bloats turned up with Facebook live cameras on. I don't know what to go bowling, mate! Or someone would be bowling?

Could a 10 year old buy their own lunch? Well, it depends what they buy. They're buying a pack of cigarettes, no. But I think if I saw a 10-year-old in a zoo, like buying food, wanderer, I'd probably report that. I'd go, I think there's a 10-year-old on their own walking around the zoo. Yeah.

I don't think that's okay. They're not buying funush. numbers by the end of that journey. There's a tenor just to spend on sweets. All right I've got to have a boomer here. Hi Robin Josh, my dad was an alpha boomer and didn't mess around with safety belts when driving to the shops. So seat belts, he used to come to safety belts. On one occasion he turned too quickly on a bend and eight-year-old me slid across the back seat and knocked thethe car. Oh my God. Oh my God. I landed luckily on the curbside, remarkably unhurt if not a bit dazed. I vividly remember my dad turning around at his seat and looking at me on the curb. They're laughing and driving 50 meters down the road to turn around. Oh my God. When he finally came back he said, what you're doing down there, Stinker? His lovahable

nickname for me. Before getting me into the car and making me promise not to tell mom, he's put Mam, MAM there because he's from Durham. He bought a whole six pack of gold bar biscuits for us to eat, which he ate five. Folks are monster. Thanks for the laughs and being sex-related Danny from Durham. Fuckin' rude. I don't think you could do that. If you were filming like a movie and you were like, so the stunt is the child that or you even with an adult they've got to slide across, hit the door, go out and land on the curb. I think that's a tough stunt to pull off. Yeah because it's like you've got to do a lot

there you've got to go so fast around the corner you slide all the way, I'm assuming leather seats, no armrest down to stop you. And then you've got the door open. It's been an old car. In hitting the door you've got to not lose momentum enough because you'd think you'd hit the door open. Bounce back? Yeah. Well, because that's what we've got these, the things, we're going though, our kids are going to tell stories about what we did when I took my kids to the shops in a cart thing that we bought to go into music festivals and for picnics and I tried to pull up the curb and they both fell out and bang their heads. I told you about that. I'm tell you about that. And that's some like, Boomer section, haven't we? So we've got one here trying to find out. So we want your opinion on this, Josh.

Hi, Robin Josh, Am I a Modern Boomer? If I am, let me tell you sometimes it works. In the mornings, well, I'm trying to get everyone in the car. I would send my son who's six to the car, and he sister strapped in, putting the bags in the car. He has still not strapped himself in. He never did it, which he can do. I lived down a very long quiet road, so he wasn't strapped in. So I drove about 30 seconds down the road and slammed my brakes on the road and slammed my brakes on for a seatbelt, as I like to call it.

He flew forward into the car and puts his belt straight away. So it has worked and he knows the importance of wearing a seatbelt. A victory for boomers, I say, now this is key, anonymous, because you know that's fucking wrong. Let me break this down. You are busy with another child. That's six-year-old and I asked you to have another child. So have another child shouldn't take your attention away from the six-year-old. I think it is annoying keep asking them to do things, but when you're in the car and you know the seatbelt's not on,

it is still the parent's responsibility to go put the seat bough. Yeah. I don't think giving them a sort of traumatic memory is a way to go around, reminded them. No, do you what I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, th, thi, thi, thi, you thi, you know, you thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, th. th. th. th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, than, than, than, than, than, than, than, than, than, than, than, thi. thi. thi, thi, thi, thi, th say, but it works. Yeah, okay, right, well that's that, you know, you can, we go like, my kid leaves a toilet bit, the toilet seat up, and at once I bog wash them for 30 seconds just enough. Now they don't. Am I a boom? Can I ask for a, I know we don't do that, can I ask for tips on something from people?

Not from anonymous because it will be strangled my daughter with their leggings. But it's a trial to get my, my daughter clothes wise, some clothes that they'll be fine that day, the next day, they're making, she doesn't like the feel of them on her legs. Yeah, she's got, we've narrowed it down to only the clothes the clothes the clothes the clothes the clothes the clothes the clothes the clothes she the clothes she she the clothes she she she she she's the clothes the clothes the clothes she's the. She's got we've narrowed it down to only the clothes she wants so but every day there's a drama about a leggings or her t-shirt or her sox. Right. It's a big one. Annoyingly we bought her days of the week socks which she likes. If anything that's added an extra thing we didn't need as a problem. Because now you're trying to find Tuesdays. That was trying to find Tuesdays.

Yeah. What are the best tactics if your child, because it's not about what the clothes are? Do you know what I mean? It's not by bigger leggings or what? It's there's something else going on. What's their face, children are starving in Africa. Well, my daughter's like that, but she's sort of grown out of it slightly. Or I just give her the socks and go, put them on and you put them on so they don't annoy you.

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Because if those little things were solvable, this podcast wouldn't exist. Okay, so just think it all doesn't make sense at all. My kid, I was driving the kids to the school the other day, and one of them went, the day, when I wasthat was Wednesday and then the other one, well it was Wednesday. And I just went, shut up, shut up, shut up. It doesn't matter what day, it has no bearing on the story. So just both agree that you, neither of you agree on the day and tell me the story. And they went, okay. And it turned out the whole story is about it being Bin Day. So it was nothing but she still went on Wednesday. the,. I went and it's tight again. I never heard what it was about.

Fucking hour of our lives. Right, time for a guest Josh. Yeah, now Laura Smith, brilliant comedian if you don't know her, you soon will. She's I'd say a very authentic comedic voice, super funny, working class girl from East London and she's got an amazing story and she's got three kids a 21 year old and younger ones five-year-old and theyro's so she's really funny and also really interesting story about how she got into comedy having the kids with such a big age gap and also she had some serious health problems recently that she's luckily in recovery from but yeah

she's amazing amazing person and it was a great chat when it yes enjoy Laura welcome to the podcast we started straight in there I know but just like it's not even like come parent and how it's like it's a support group right now I'm couping it was a support group yeah we normally do an intro but we just didn't bother it was like we just started mid slagging off school run. Oh God I'm jealous of that tea. Right Laura tell us about your tell us how about your set up at home. My set up. How many kids you got ages? Three? Three? Well I've got three and I'm doing it both ends on I've got 21 year old yep. Yeah and then I've got the big gap and the eight and the five year old old old old old old old old old old old old old old old you you you you you you you are you you are you are you are you are you are you are you are you are you are you are you are you are you are you are th you're th you're th you're th you're th you're th you're th you're th you're the the to to to to to to to to to the the to to the the the to the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the the the te tell tell tell tell tell tell tell us tell tell us tell tell us tell tell us tell us tell us the the the big gap and the eight and the five year old is where I'm at. Oh wow. Right, okay, right that's, you are covering all bases there.

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Because for some reason, they thought they thought, they thought, then the eldest I was like I'd put it on her really I was like well we've made the dessert we're ready to go and I thought I offered her 30 quid to babysit but she gave me this look that was like I could name my price right now couldn't I? Was she indoors anyway that night was she was fun she's doing dry January so it's like because she is a little she does like a night out she does. So she's she's home. She's been helpful this January actually. And saving money. And do they get, do they get on then? So is it more? Because it's such a big gap?

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best newer comics on the circuit and you're just going to go off and be household name, you're amazing. So thanks for doing this for getting you in now just before you get to you fuck us off. You had a child 21 years ago. You've only been doing comedy a little while. You're already sort of smashing it and been on telli and stuff like that. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You th. You th. You th. You th. You're th. You're th. You're th. You're th. You're th. th. You're thi. You're th. th. You're th. You're just just just just just just just just th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. just just just just just just just just just just just stuff like that. So talk us through from like what was you doing when you had your your 21 year old and then you and how you manage to then sort of start this new career having all these kids and stuff like talk us through that sort of path. Well, you know, everything changes when you have kids and all your priorities shift wherever you are in life. So when I was young I didn't really know what I was doing and you know I sort of dropped out of uni and I was sort of working and I met my oldest dad's and it was all just a bit messy really and I didn't really have much ambition but when I had her all of a sudden I knew I wanted more for her do you know what I mean? So I ended up bumping into my old A-level English

teacher and she was sort of saying what you're up to, I'm just a single mom, just this, and you know, it was sort of very typical, East London going through the sort of, I'd split up with her dad and I was in temporary accommodation, do you know, it was, it was tough. How old were at that point? Laura, so then I was sort of in temporary to thea thea thea the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. I was, the. I was, thea. I was, thea. I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I's, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, sort. I'm, sort. I'm, sort. I'm, sort of, sort of, sort of, sort of, sort of, sort of, sort of, sort of, sort of, sort of, sort of, sort of, sort of, sort of, sort of, sort of, sort of, sort of, sort of, sort of, sort of, sort of, sort of, sort of, sort of, sort of, sort of, sort of, I'm, sort of 19 when I was with her dad and then you know it was so then I was sort of in temporary accommodation and in sort of on the on the council waiting list it was like pretty bleak really but you know she was a real sort of motivating factor and you know you know what it's like when you're young you know when I was young and it's sort of your mom and dad and all that, it was like, you know, what do your parents do? And I was like, well, a bit of this, bit of it, bit, who's asking? I was asking. I was like napping, who's asking?

So I think I had the campus with like lecturers kids and things that I don't know. It was nice and she was and so we just sort of made it work me and Rosie. I always my mate Natalie, my best mate Natalie she goes, oh we grew up with her eldest because she had her, I grew up with Rosie. Yeah, so yeah, had her and then and their, and their, and their, and their, and their, and their, and their, and their, their, their, I, I, I, I, I, I, I their, I their, I their, I their, I was, I was, their, I was, I was, I was, their, I was, their, I was, I was, I was, I was, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she............. She. She. She. She. She. She. She was, th. She was, th... She was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, the..... She was. She. So yeah, had her and then became a teacher, like did much of me. What was that like, you know, because obviously other people are presumably at uni,

and they're like, no, the whole thing if you describe uni to me, is like no cares, do you know what I mean? It's like freedom. And so, were you, was it really weird for you in that sense? Like you must have been taking it really seriously because you're like, if I'm going to do this, I'm going to fucking do it. Do you know what I really? Yeah. And I needed to take it seriously, because like I said when I first went to the unne I was just, I just got lot of people go to pieces at uni the first time they go, you'll have a handle it, but I thought I was confident. I'm from a big family, I thought I was confident.

But also I don't think you realize your working class till you go to the unne. You don't really think about it because everyone's the same boat. And you go to you and I couldn't understand people that I couldn't understand I couldn't understand I couldn't have a Welsh accent. I didn't understand how the trouble of the be. I didn't get it. And I just didn't know who I was. I just didn't know who I was out of the context of my, my ends. You know, like, yeah. It's quite a small world you're from, really, isn't it?

You feel really confident and big, but actually, you're're related to or you know and I found that when I went to Dan to Canterbury I was like oh so you do that and your mom and dad go there and oh that's an option or that's a thing and also like oh you go skiing but you just you talk fairly normally you're not like one of the princes yeah yeah yeah you know I've taken a long time to get to this, to get to this sort of, anyway, we'll get to it when it's comedy, but I don't think I could have handled doing comedy in my late teens, early 20s, because actually, comedy's really egalitarian. If you're funny, if you're funny. I don't where you're from if you're Cambridge footlights, you know, all the people are not funny. But I feel like class doesn't come into it when you find someone funny. I can mug off all the posh communities, but if they're funny, they're my favorite person. Do you know what I mean? But it's like a write on bad education and I'm in there with Jack Whitehorn,

and I think, look at them, you know, and I'm, I'm at they're at my they're at my they're at my they're at my they're at my they're at my their funny at my their funny at my they're funny at my they're funny at my they're funny at my they're funny at my funny at my funny they're funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny, I'm funny, I'm funny, I'm funny funny, I'm funny funny funny funny, funny, funny, funny, funny, funny, funny, funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny funny... I'm funny. I'm funny. I'm funny. I'm funny. I'm funny. I'm at my my my. I'm at my. I'm at my. I'm at my. I'm at my. I'm at my. I'm at my. I'm at my. I'm at my. I'm at my. I'm at my. I'm at my. I'm at my. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm at my. I'm at my. I'm at my. I'm, I'm at's like I'm right on bad education and I'm in there with Jack Whitehorn and Freddie Cyborne and I think look at them you know and I'm I'm at my seat at that table I'm contributing as much I'm right you know and you think that's a nice feeling that don't make me think oh they've got like oh they had it easier than me I just think whatever we've done in life whatever we're at the same the th and th and th and th and th and th and th and th and th and th and th and th and th at th at th at th at th at th at th at thin thin thin thin thin thin thin thin' thin' thin' th the thin' the the at tho tho tho tho tho tho tho they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they the the the the the the the thin the the the the the the the the the thooooooo' theeeeeeeeeeeeat thoooo thoooo' they're they're in life. We're at the same table now. Do you know what I mean? I do think like education and university and stuff, not even for the academic degree, I think if you're from a working class background, it opens your eyes to the world and you understand the different pressures you have, but also the different pressures people from public school have because there's expectations. I mean, if you're working class, you don't really have expectations. So a freedom comes with that. However, there's no safety net to support that freedom. Yeah.

And that, and when you, if you're there for a few years, you can sort of understand it and you're confident comes up. Because if you go and do gigs when you're 18, you could be funny and you might have funny bones and be really funny, but the rest of it, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the, and the the the the the the the the the the the the the to, and you, and you, and you're, and the the, and the the their, and you're, and you're, and you're, and you're, and you're, and you're, and you're, and you're, and you're, and you're, and you, and to, and to, and to, and to, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, the the the the the the the the the the the the th... the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th is heavily middle class and privately educated, you're completely lost and at sea and I went to uni and then did an events job in London and so when I started comedy when I was 23 and so that when I started comedy, I'd have been an to be a try and I'd have got a twenty-three I would have fucked it and been an alcoholic because I was like, this wine's through. Let's fucking go, you don't have him.

So I made all those mistakes from 18 to 23. And then when I found comedy, and I think maybe your English degree helped you with that, and you know, but that must have been pressure having to get your baby up and ready and go into a crash and you look back and go, how the hell did I do that? It's like when your kids are a bit older, you go, how do we handle it when they were three and five and how did their marriage survive? But yeah, so in answer to a long roundabout way, because I found it all too overwhelmed in the first time, Josh, I kind of, by the time I kind of was like 22, 23, 23, to do, to do, to do, to do, to do, to do, to do, to do, to do, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, the, th, th, th, th, th, the, the, th, the, and th. And, and, and, and, was, and the, and I, and I, and I, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, the, to, to, the, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, the, to, to, the, to, the, the to, the the, the the the, and, and, and, and, and, and, it really did mean something. And you know, I still had mates and they all looked out for my oldest as well. You know, sometimes you're like, you're coming for lunch, yes, or should we go for a drink?

Yeah, so what other? Would other students like be up for, you know, carrying the baby? Because if I'd had a, like, when I was 19 and at uni, I'd have fucking shut myself if someone had handed me a baby. Oh yeah, she was four or five by the time. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. And she's just, she just always rolled. I think I just sort of thought. Like, I almost shirts my friend Todd said, I was like, oh, I don't worry about, she's just on my hip, you know, and she's just rolled. And she's kind of done an English degree at the the the age, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, the the the the the th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th. th. thi, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, or she. Yeah, or she's, four, four, four, four, or, four, four, or, four, four, four, four, or, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, she's like that narrow and she just rolls so she's so she's kind of cool but yes so then I did so then she's kind of done an English degree at the age

of four by just being there. She think she has she's like she's so well read because that's all I sort of I think that education reading and all that she's just like well she's been hanging out of all those lecturess well she's the the network of her network is the network is, Rah, where's my backy? She's bold as bra. She doesn't have any kind of, there's no imposter syndrome with her. She's like, and I just had to him, you know, and I'm like, who are you? What did I create? But then, so then, yeah, I met my husband, so that was all nice. So it felt very box ticky.

We, you know, I'm teaching, then he became a teacher and you know, we're married and the kids. And it was just like this tick, tick of what I wanted. I felt very like, like, very like, okay, cool. And I just knew, it was very stressful. And I'd always wanted to do comedy. I used to go, I don't know if you remember going, Stratford Theatre, I used to have Monday nights, new material.

I don't know if you ever done that. That was sort of the first place I died. I'm sorry, that was probably us in the audience us in us in us in us in us in us us us us us us us us us us us us us us us us us us us us us us us us us us us us us us probably us probably us probably us probably us probably us sorry that was probably us in the audience we lived there from you know 17-18 to sort of mid-20 we lived there because I loved it I loved it. I would have been there in 2008? Let's do the math yeah yeah yeah oh no oh no. Oh no. Well that was probably it was almost it was a tough gigs it was almost like it was so local to East London so you'd have all the East London as well a lot of the black communities it was half an urban food they always serve Caribbean food no one gave a shit about the comedy you had no we were brutal so I'd go on a lot of the sort of the black circuit acts would rip it

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tell you now I didn't have the guts to ever go back you know there's comedians that go um when I die somewhere I've got to go back I'm like no never go to a to to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go back to go to go back I to go back I to go back I'm to go back I'm to go to go back to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go back I to go back I to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to go back I to go to go to go to go to go to. I've lost. It's over. I'm not doing never mind the Buzzcocks again. I fucked it up. That's it. I'm not doing Stratford Theatre Royal or half for Adams Unie. It's over. It's done for me. Well, they are. I think I know what you're saying with those audiences. We're like, you know how bad you were as an audience member. So the thought of you getting up when I to perform in front the front the front the front the front the front the front the front to perform the front the front to perform the front the front the front to perform the front to perform the front the front the the the to perform to perform to perform to perform to perform to perform to perform to perform to perform to perform to perform the the to perform the the of of me me me me me me me me p. I'm to me p. I'm to perform. I'm to perform. I'm to perform to perform. I'm to perform. I to perform to perform to perform to perform to perform to perform to perform to perform to perform to perform to perform the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the up the creek. Like, I was, I got so pissed watching up the creek then stayed for the nightclub after. I was sick in the fucking urinal trough. Yeah. And then went back to the dance. And I just sit there to watch a headliner.

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won the funny women awards and then I got signed and I got signed with Carly Peters and Maureen Vincent like French and Saunders agent and I the year before was when I was watching French and Sonders 300 years and French and Sorders and that was one of the big things I thought I'm living the wrong life that's what I should have been doing. Amazing. Sure enough more in Vincent was at funny women awards and would take care of me when I started as well. So it was like our life can change and then it was all go go go and then the pandemic and then as soon as the pandemic was over and I was back at work I just had to hand him on notice. Then I didn't

so I didn't so, I didn't try to twenty twenty one. Two years later I was still able to quit work. Didn't go back to work and then and then then then then then then then then then then then then then then then then then then then then then then then then then I then then then then then then then then then then then then then their then then their their then their then their then then then then then their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their. I was their. I was their. I was their. I was their. I was their their. I was their their their their. I was their their their their their their then. the. the. thea. thea. thea. thean. thea. thea. thean. the pandemic the pandemic the pandemic. I was their their their their thea. I was like oh my god and then I just kept going because I thought I'm not gonna fucking die I'm gonna keep going amazing and how how are you now health wise and stuff like that you know you never you anyone that knows anyone that's been free you sort of waiting for that five year mark but I'm I was considered in remission after the surgery and everything else like the chemo radio everything was sort of a prevent to sort of protect me and I'm on like hormone blockers so I'm like in the menopause. Burr.

But it's just fun. How's that? How's that? How's it? Well, ask my husband how it is. He's got the best joke about it. He goes, we've got the menopause in our house. She's on three patches, she don't know about the third. That's a really good shout.

Just pat you on the back as you leave. By the right, I love you. That's exactly what he does. It's a perfect joke and I howl because when I talk about the men a madia on it, in, you know, the clubs or whatever, it's the men that are sitting with their wives going, yeah, they're almost relieved, they're going, oh yeah, that's you, you're married. I think that you can't say that because I think when,

my experience of being around people in the menopause, which is trying to say that as diplomatic as possible, is that I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I the whole the whole the whole the whole the whole the whole the whole the whole the whole the whole the whole the whole the whole the whole the whole the whole the whole, I the whole., I thapol, I thapol, I thapolome of that, thathe that, that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that I think it's sort of like I don't think sometimes you realize you're in it when you're in it if you're in the menopause and because of the hormones and even if you do realize you're in it you don't really accept that you're in it or admit it and then if people bring it up that that really doesn't help no I think you've really well talked around the subject Rob and I don't think your mom's going to have any issue with the way you go. There's more than one.

I say, the material I have about it is that it's like being gas-lipped by your own body because it's hormones but you're feeling it. So I don't know whether all the rage is hormones or if my husband is in actual fact a stupid fucking useless and never fucking listens. What I found was I could deal with sort of giving a bit of space to someone. What I struggled with is when every window's in the house and it's so cold and and I won't even say should we shut a door or I might just put a jumper on and then you'd get, and you what? And then you have to sort of go like, what lie about your own heat? Because then by being put in a jumper, it's almost a passive, aggressive dig to go, you're

too, you're too hot, we're all gold? But if, you know, I just think women, you just go through it, you know, when you're menstruating, you go through it, when you're their, when, when, when, their go through it, when you give birth to them through it, and then what's waiting for you at the end, obviously mine's come early is this menopause, and then you think that's not fair to be a slave to your hormones, and I will, I don't know what any feminists will say to this

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I've just talked to me, you know what I mean? Yeah, I totally get now. I'm quite a happy and chill, but when I start getting annoyed by sort of, you know, like, someone will someone to walk past. And I go, look at that fucking prick. I'm sure you may not like what they've got on or the look in his eyes a bit off, but you shouldn't matter this much or something else. That guy is not the problem. You're the problem.

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It was really tough. Did any of your students know you were doing stand-up? Yeah, when I won the funny women, it sort of emerged. And then I did, yeah, and then, do you know what it's like, when they started finding out or did a sort of nationwide advert or little bits to come up, there was a little bit of like, how they're that means? And you go, yeah, and then they don't care. Do you know what I mean? You're like that teacher's like, oh I'm getting married and you might be interested for two seconds. Yeah, that's it. That's it's nice when you bump into them

because I was taught in my area, so I always see, miss, miss, miss, and it's quite cute. But one kid that I really helped out a lot and she was really struggling when I was taking care of her. And even her family, then I bumped into her in the co-of coop coop coop and toell-yet. Yeah, they're just like, but they're cute, they're sweet, you know, and sometimes I've got, you know, the older ones now follow me on Instagram and say, oh well done, I'm so proud to you and that's quite cute. Oh, that's cool. How do your children feel about it? I think they don't, yeah, the eldest, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the eldest, the eldest, the eldest, the eldest, the eldest, the eldest, the eldest, the eldest. the eldest. the eldest. the eldest. the eldest. the eldest. the eldest. the oldest. the oldest. the oldest. the oldest. the oldest. the oldest. the oldest. their their their the oldest. th. they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're. they're. they're. they're. they're. they're. they're. they're. they're, they're. they're, they're, they're they're they're their. their. their. their. their their their their their their their their their their their their their they're cute. they're cute. they're cute. they're cute. lest one, because they all like YouTube family.

So he's kind of, he's five, so he doesn't know whether we're a famous YouTube family. I'm like, I'm not even famous. Do you know what I mean? He goes, but he's almost like, what are we? Like we're not into it. And then the middle one, she just, you know, she, they know I gig, but I did Richard Osmond's house of games. And then all of a sudden that spun her out, she was a bit like, this is something we watch. Right, yeah.

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and then sold out Leaster Square Theater, so then it was like, right, give her a hack in the empire, so a sudden I think this is working, I know everyone wants to be good but when it's like I know what I'll do and then as soon as people start buying tickets you go oh they spend their money on me I want this to be really good do you know what I mean? I feel like when you're I think that's the thing I've felt when you're thin I've th I've th I've th I've th I feel th I feel th th th th I feel th I feel th th I feel th I feel th I th I th th th I th I thin I thin I thin I thin I thin I that's that's that's that's thin I that's I that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's I that's I that's I that's I that's I that's I that's I that's I that's I that's I that's I that's I that's I that's I that's that's that's that's that's th I th I th I th I th I th I th I th I th I th I th I th I thin I thin I thin I thin I thin I thin I thin thin thin thin thin thin thin thin thin thin thin thin thin thin thin thin thin thin thin thin it's the first time you feel a duty to the people's night out. Do you know what I mean? Especially when you've got kids you know how hard it is to get out the house, get a babysitter and stuff but but the other thing is you don't want to put too much pressure in yourself as well Laura so that if because some gigs go well some don't you don't have fucking people people have done like the Hacking

Empire what happened in Swansea Rob? No no Swansea was all right but exactly for example but it's 21 quid for a ticket and you know it is a lot of money people spend however people might spend 40 quid and not think about it do you know this morning so this morning this Laura Smith, S, um, it's spelled with. Yeah, it's great. Yeah, it looks, yeah, there's loads of gigs, so book a ticket. Yeah, there's an autumn leg now as well. Autumn leg as well.

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You know, because is your husband still working as a teacher or is he stopped now? No. He's, he does landscaping and he's a musician and so we kind of keep it all balanced like that. It's mostly Friday Saturday nights I'm doing to be honest. Are you quite looking forward to like June the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the to to to forward to like June the 6th, 7th and 8th when you're in Newcastle, Salford and Liverpool and you're just staying away on your own and there's no responsibilities? That's basically a holiday those three days. Well it is, that is, I'm never that good at sleeping in the hotels without them, but there are times when you go, you know, you just you just got to enjoy to enjoy to enjoy to enjoy to enjoy to enjoy to enjoy to enjoy to enjoy to enjoy to enjoy to enjoy to enjoy to enjoy to enjoy to enjoy to enjoy to enjoy to enjoy to enjoy to enjoy to enjoy to enjoy to enjoy to enjoy to enjoy to enjoy the to enjoy the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the tod, times, times, times, times, times, times.a. times. I is, times. times. times. times. times. times. the the the the the the the times when you go, you know, you just got to enjoy it. So I think Birmingham where

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Oh, really? Oh, as long as they come out the other side, and they're such knobs. Like, you were everyone here. So I feel like she's just come out the other side and it's like me and my husband are both going, oh yeah she's all right and he's very good at going. And he's going and now the menopause is hit. When am I going to catch a break down? We're not even kidding him.

You know what I mean? And just as I get over the sort of worst of the menopause, the middle was just come out the other side and go, oh no, you're all right, you are going to be alright. Yeah. So what, were there anything standout moments from her as a teenage that put you under pressure that you were like, this is, this is mental, what am I going to do here? They were just things like, parties where you after for an after party and I was like, no, and I just, I don't mind hosting something but I laid down all, we got a security guard and we put the whole garden in fairy lights. You're a got security guard for your house. Yeah, because, amazing. Because we just knew, because we're in East London, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you know, she went the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the they they they they they they they they they were they were they were they were they were they was, they was, their they were to they were they was, they was, to they was, to they was, to they was, they was, they was, they was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, th. th. their. th. their. their. their. their. their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their.. We their, th. We th. th. th. th. th. I was, yeah. But all people can turn up that it's not nice. I mean, you know, she went to school in Bow so it was like,

so I said, the rules are, everyone's parents need to know they're coming and they all need to know how they're getting home. I'm not like taking drunkies in Uber's at Philhulip. Because I just didn't want to blow? So things like that where I'll kind of pretend there's boundaries, do you know what I mean? And I just try to be cool. So all those sorts of things, yeah, you're navigating them through little boy friends and all that and you just, just hope they come out the other side, don't wait you talk to you?

Did you when you're a teacher a a a teacher the teacher the teacher the teacher the teacher the teacher the teacher the teacher the teacher the teacher the teacher the teacher the teacher? Could you really see the parents and the kids, like did it always make sense? Do you know what I mean? Yeah, the vast majority of the time, sometimes you'd have this nightmare kids and then you meet these terrifying sort of parent and you, I couldn't do it. This kid that usually disrupts every lesson is a nightmare, he's sort of going, like, I know this kid, this shrap by his terrifying parent, you think, oh, that's why you flex your muscles in school because your parapets a psychopath

and other ways sort of, you know, mitigate like, oh yeah, she does try and come to lesson. If you're too mean, if you're too mean, they're gonna get a smack him and they get home or something probably. You'd get a lot of that. And I mean, and then sometimes you get this really quiet, quiet, it wouldn't say boo to goose kid. And then you tell the parents, I'd like them to maybe contribute more. They're like, what? She don't stop talking at home?

You know, they're usually lovely at school. hard and fast rule, lovely parents have lovely kids and actually you know if they're sassing you at home they're usually lovely at school my kids are so leery me and then you know lovely at school and all that. That's good news because my my daughter couldn't be more different at home from what she is at school do you know I mean like she's she's so polite to her teachers and stuff and then she's just you know gives me shit six and she'll give me shit all the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the t. t. t. t. t. the the t. t. t. t. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their t. t. t. t. t. t. te's te's te's te. te. te. te. te. tea's tea's tea. tea. tea's te's te's te's te's then she's just you know gives me shit six and she she'll give me shit all the time but you're like well like shit air yeah yeah yeah well no no she picks her targets I've seen your notebook the

jokes they're not working he's lost a little bit of what you had stuff like that it's really getting in your head do you think any of your kids might up in comedy I could see the eldest I could see all of them actually they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they'll they they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they'll they'll they'll to to to to to to they'll they'll to they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll of your kids might end up in comedy? I could see the eldest. I could see all of them actually, they all make me laugh. All my kids are funny. Yeah. Do you come from funny families, you too? Yeah, I think when I was growing up, taking the piss was a bit, like nothing was serious in the sense of, life wasn't seen as too serious, and we watch a lot of comedy. So that was like, that was probably like,

everything was comedy on TV. So it's there, do you know what I mean? I think some family, most like there's families that are like the comedy family, that they all take the piss out of each other, all got funny stories, the dad tell us, yeah, and sit down and watch it all together because then you do find other families where they literally just sit and watch like, oh let's watch planet Earth. And then watch it and go, oh yeah, quite interesting wasn't it right night?

I'm like fucking a waste of an evening. Well, I think that's funny. When your family's funny, when you go then out on the circuit, you know the game, the game is go to the sixth, seventh joke that's that's that's, that's, the joke, the joke, the joke, the joke, the game, the game, the game, the game, the game, the game, the game, the game, the game, the game, the game, the game, the game, the game, the game, the game, the game, the game, the game, the game, the game, well, well, well, well, well, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, so. I's, so....... So. So.. So, th... So, th... So, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so. So, the game, is. Yeah, is. Yeah, the game, the game, so. Yeah, they. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And, the. Yeah. Yeah, the. Yeah, the. Yeah, the. Yeah, the. Yeah, the. Yeah, the they. Yeah, the will top everyone else up. Yeah. That's the game and it's like a game I've played my whole life without realizing that's the game. Do you know what I mean? So when you go and watch some comedians, some comedians I watch and think, you don't even have a funny family. I know.

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I was like, it's gonna be really worthy. And then recently, and that was my early wits. And then I thought, no, it's funny. Yeah, no, yeah. But when I always say people are comedians or they're not, not whether they're, because, write a joke we don't mean them a comedian. Comedians to be a people that like you go yeah there's nothing else you could have done on this earth. Yeah, or there is but you'd have done it terribly and been so happy. But like you know when you speak to Alan Carr there is no other job for Alan Carr than being a comic that it just encapsulates funny. The fact he used to work to work he to work he to work to work to work to work to work to work to work to work to work to work to work to work to work to work to work to work to work to to the fact he to the fact the fact to the fact. the fact. the fact. the fact. the fact. the fact. the fact. the fact. the fact. the fact. the fact. their. their. their. their. their. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I. I. I. the. I. I. I. the. I. I. I. the. I. I. I the. the. I the. the. the. the. the the. the the the the the the the the. I. I. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Prime example, he is just... That's how funny he is.

We can all laugh just thinking of him doing something. He doesn't even have to do it. Yeah. Should we do the final question, Josh? We should do the final question, shouldn't we, Rob? We always do the final question, we don't always, but... No, we should. We should. We do it. Let's... We should. What's... We should. the... the... the... th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. to... to do. to do. to do. to do. to... to do it. to do it. to to to to to to do it. to do it. to do it. to do it. to do it. to do it. to do it. to do it. to do it. to do it. to do. to do. to do. to do. to do. to do it's to do it. to do it. to do it. to do it. to do it. to do it. to do it. to do it. to do it. to do. to to to to to to to to th. to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to do. to do. to do. to th. think, oh my god, I'm so happy we've got kids together, you're amazing. And this what's the one thing he does as a parent you like, this bores my piss? And he has got to listen to this and stop doing what you're doing. Oh my god. I mean, Ali is just, I mean, when you meet him, you've got to meet him to believe him, it's just this absolute, he's the most capable capable, he's thapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapap, he's just, he's just, he's just, he's just, he's just, that, he's just, that, that, that, thi, that, thi, that, to be to be to be to be to to to be, to be, to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to be, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, to be, th....... is, he's th. He, he's th. He's th. He's th. He's just, he's just, he's just, he's just, thin, thin, thin, thin, he's thin, he's thin, thin, thin, thin, to me me, to me, to listen, to me, to me, he's got,there's just a deep, he can just, he just make sure he's just make sure everyone's all right, you know, if you

say, oh boy, if you pack that, yeah, on it, done it, if everything's done, before you've asked. And he's so brilliant and he's so brilliant and he's just, he's so brilliant and he just made sure everything. There's this overwhelming sense, oh good, Al thank. he's he's he's he's he's he's hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe. he. he. he. he. he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he, he's he's he's he's he's he's all all all all all, he's all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all, he's all all all, he's all, he's all, he's all, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he. He's they. He's they. He's th. He's th. that's th. th. that's tho, he's that's tho, he's they. He's they. He's that's they. they. An energy about him. Oh, he's magic. He's absolutely magic. I'm imagining anyone's ever said that about me. Oh, thank God Josh is... Yeah. He's gonna be right, Josh's here. You couldn't even finish the sentence, Rob. Now I think it'll be Josh's here and If someone said who's on the bill or who's on the show Josh's here

go, oh yes, thank God for that. But he'd do better than him. No, not at all. And the negative about Ali. Well, like I say, he's a musician and a creative like me, so like me so he he he can half daydream and he's a lot of when he's not present you sort of like Ali there's a lot of so he can be really not present and I can look at him and he's they're talking to you and you go huh like yeah so and and there's a joke about him because I said he used the wrong phrase and he meant he's a daydreamer and he always away with the phrase and he went and I said, come on Ali, you know, he goes, sorry, I'm

just a dream boat. Oh, I know, that's kind of a joke. It's kind of a joke and me and my sisters all take the piss he was just a dream boat. He goes, sorry, I know I'm, and he's really being sincere, I know I'm a dream boat. I'm sorry, the worst thing about him is he's quite quiet at times. Well, we played, we went to his dinner party and it's like the, you know, the mafia game, which is basically what the traitor's is based on. But I knew, he's quite introvert, but I knew, within within within within within within within within within the murder, he was, he was, he was, he was the murder, he was the murder, he was knew within seconds he was the murderer, he was the mafia out, where he couldn't function. He couldn't function. He couldn't have been, and he had a few

business and I just, he just couldn't actually do this sump to finish, he couldn't handle it. And then when I, I knew straight away and voted him off because I was unhorrible. And then the other mafia person who was sitting next to me went, yeah, yeah and voted for him too. And he lost it, and he lost it, he couldn't handle it. You're fucking snathing. You're snatting. He's got snat. He's gottaken out with him. He just lost it. You just lost it to him. Laura, it's been absolutely amazing. I know it's two things though, and it's something that I see in myself.

When you said to him, oh, I admitted I want to do comedy, like it was a crime, because of your background. I'm a team out. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And then the other one, when you said, yeah, he went, he's a creative, you felt so uncomfortable saying you're a creative, you're the, you're a creative, you're the, you're the creative, you're the, you're the, you're the, you're the, thi, to, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, I'm to to to to thi, to to to to to to to to to to admit, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm thi, I thi, I I I I thi, I I I I I I I I I thi, I I I thi, I I I, I thi, I I, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I'm, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm a thi, I'm a thi, I'm a thi, thi, to to to to thi to upbringing and you're being working class you are creative you don't have to admit to being a comedian you just are and then when you're back for round two when you've done your sell-out tours no more of that you just say it loud and proud okay because you are you're got it maybe not too much no

if Rob back it said he was a creative, I would absolutely take the piss for about 10 years. Actually Josh, I'm an artist. Tell what is Peterbred. He's an artist! Yeah. Laura's been absolutely amazing. Good luck on the tour. Let's know it goes and we'll speak to you soon I'm sure. Thanks for having me. Cheers, mate. Laura Smith. She's brilliant. Brilliant. Do you know what I didn't do Rob? I didn't Laura Smith, she's brilliant Laura, she's so funny. Do you know what I didn't do Rob? What?

I didn't Steve write it. Should I quickly Steve write it? Um, yeah, read out all her gig. Maxtone, Winchester, Birmingham, Bath, Chalmoiseau, Norwich, Norwich, Norwich, Norwich, Norwich, theynton, Gailford, Gilded, Gahton, Gaift, the, the, the, the, the, the, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, the, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, Rob, to, to, to, Rob, Rob, Robb, Robb, Robb, Robb, Robb, Robb, Robb, Robb, Robb, Robb, Robb, Robb, to, Robb, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the the the th, the th, th, th, th, th, th, th, the, the, thi, thi, Robbite, thi, Robbite, Robbite, Robbite, Robbite, Robbite, Robbite, Robbite, the, the, the, the, alford, Liverpool, South End, Fairham, London, London, Glasgow, Leicester, Norwich, Cambridge, Nottingham, Bath, Cardiff, Dublin, Belfast, Brighton, Sheffield, Birmingham, Coventry, Sulford, Leeds and Chelmsford.

Laura Smith with a Y.com. Yes, go and see her. And also, she'll be in sort of good-sized rooms, but like 100 seat, like three or 400 seaters, see her before she's inevitably in the big massive theaters 2,000 cedars because she will be, she's amazing. Anyway, I'll see you next week, Josh. Bye. Night.