Comedian Laura Lexx had a busy first lockdown, seeing her infamous Jürgen Klopp Twitter thread (5.6 million views, 55K likes and celebrity fans including Gary Lineker, Kathy Burke, Marian Keyes and Seth Meyers) become a book – Klopp Actually. If that wasn’t enough, Laura crowdsourced a novel and started a new podcast called National Treasures! with fellow comedian Will Duggan. Now, it’s finally time for Laura, star of Live at The Apollo, Mock The Week and double winner of The Comedian’s Choice Best Performer Award, to go back to her live tour, Knee Jerk - or at least virtually, for now. Knee Jerk shines a hilarious light on how hard it is to be a good person these days. The world seems eternally furious, whether that is over coronavirus, Brexit, carbon emissions, gender, plastics in the sea, nationality or whether or not we should be aiming for the future or the past. Maybe Laura is projecting, but, is all this arguing and fighting down to the fact we're absolutely terrified? In Knee Jerk, Laura uses the tricks she learned to cope with her eco-anxiety to try and soothe the world's temper and calm down our various phobias. Laura has a laugh taking on many of society’s big issues – social media, mental health, climate change and conceiving - asking questions such as, can you change the world without offending anyone? Can we stop being terrified and start being nicer to each other? Can you use netball to solve the gender pay gap? Spoiler alert: come for jokes, not for answers!
‘Real comedic steel.’
The Guardian
Laura is an award-winning comedian and writer. Her credits include Live At The Apollo (BBC Two), Hypothetical (Dave), Roast Battle (Comedy Central) The Dog Ate My Homework (CBBC), hosting The Comedy Club (BBC Radio 4 Extra), The Jason Manford Show (Absolute Radio) The Sarah Brett Show (BBC 5 live) Ayesha Hazarika and Mariella Frostrup’s shows on Times Radio and BBC at the Edinburgh Festivals (BBC Two), her performance on which has been viewed over three million times! Laura will be making her Mock the Week debut in December. Laura has also appeared on various high-profile podcasts including: Reasons to be Cheerful, Evil Genius with Russell Kane, Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast (RHLSTP) and has now started her own, National Treasures!, with fellow comedian Will Duggan.
Laura has gigged at comedy clubs and festivals all over the UK and Europe and has provided tour support for Jason Manford, Tim Vine and Russell Kane. She has picked up a host of awards and nominations along the way, including two nominations for the Amused Moose Best Show, Chortle Best Compere nominations every year since 2016 and winning Comic’s Comic Best MC Award in 2017 and Best Performer in the Comedian’s Choice Awards in 2018 and 2019. Meanwhile, Knee Jerk was nominated for 2019’s BroadwayWorld’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival Awards. Among other accolades, Laura was in the top 10 of Dave’s Funniest Jokes of the Fringe 2018 and was within the top 30 best reviewed shows at the Edinburgh Fringe 2019.
Laura’s literary adventure started after Kate Hewson at Two Roads acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to Laura’s imaginary diary of life married to Jürgen Klopp, Klopp Actually, as well as Pivot, a novel about an amateur women’s netball team, from Diana Beaumont at Marjacq in association with Andrew Roach Talent. Klopp Actually was published in hardback, eBook and audio on September 3rd, 2020, with Pivot expected in 2022.
Live reviews from 2019:
‘Her perky energy makes it impossible not to root for her…her wonderful show-closing rant about netball is a tour-de-force that’s worth the ticket price on its own.’
**** The Telegraph
**** Sunday Times
‘It’s classic Lexx: heavy stuff, dealt with lightly.’
**** Fest
‘A must-see for all.’
**** The List
‘A pocket dynamo of energy…a gem of a show.’
***** One4Review
‘The jokes don’t stop coming and the room is filled with roaring laughter prompted by witty one-liners and terrifying societal issues.’
***** Edinburgh Festivals Magazine
