Awards
• Nominee: Chortle Best Headliner 2010 & 2011
• Nominee: if.comedy Main Award 2007
• Nominee: if.comedy Best Newcomer 2006
• Nominee: Sony Radio Awards 2006
• Winner: BBC New Act of the Year Competition 2004
• Winner: York Comedy Festival New Act of the Year Competition 2004
• Winner: Amused Moose Starsearch 2004
• Finalist: So You Think You’re Funny? 2003
Andrew’s live performances have gained international recognition as he has played at all the top comedy festivals enjoying mass critical acclaim. He has twice performed at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and at the 2009 Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal. He has performed six consecutive all-new solo shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival - two of which were nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Awards - where he consistently plays to sell out audiences and receives rave reviews. In 2010, he returned with his fifth Edinburgh show, entitled Andrew Lawrence: The Too Ugly For Television Tour 2010 which he took on the road for his maiden UK Tour. Last year he launched his second national tour Andrew Lawrence: The Best Kept Secret in Comedy Tour at the festival and is currently performing the show across the country.
As well as growing reputation as a touring artist Andrew’s TV profile has continued to rise over recent years with a string of high profile appearance on some of UK television’s most high profile comedy shows. In the autumn of 2010 Andrew performed stand-up on both Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow and Dave’s One Night Stand. More recently he has appeared as a guest on Ask Rhod Gilbert, as a headliner on C4’s Stand Up For The Week and this autumn featured on BBC1’s flagship stand-up show Live At The Apollo.
In 2010 his self-written and performed Radio 4 show, What To Do If You’re Not Like Everybody Else hit the airwaves and the second series aired in September 2011. Also a talented actor Andrew was a regular for three series on the BBC3 hit show Ideal playing the role of Marco.
Andrew’s stand up career kick-started when he received rave recognition in all the key new act competitions, he quickly went on to establish himself as a regular favourite on the comedy circuit, gigging at all the major clubs across the country, earning 2010 and 2011 Chortle Best Headliner Nominations and building a base of discerning fans.
Andrew Lawrence
Television
• Live At The Apollo (BBC1, 2011)
• Ask Rhod Gilbert (BBC1, 2011)
• Stand Up For The Week (C4, 2011)
• Dave’s One Night Stand (Dave, 2010)
• Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow (BBC1, 2010)
• Edinburgh Comedy Fest Live (BBC3, 2010)
• Comedy Store (Comedy Central, 2010)
• Brighton Comedy Festival Best of the Fest (C4, 2009)
• Ideal – Role of “Marco” (BBC3, 2007, 2008, 2009)
• Headcases – voice of “David Miliband” (ITV 1, 2008)
• World Stands Up - headliner (Paramount Comedy Channel, 2008)
• Splitting Cells (BBC3, 2007)
• Spacehopper – Various characters (BBC3, 2007)
• Comedy Cuts (ITV2, 2007)
• Comedy Shuffle (BBC 3, 2007)
• 28 Acts in 28 Minutes (BBC 3, 2006)
• World Stands Up (Paramount Comedy Channel, BBC America, 2005, 2006)
Radio
• What To Do If You’re Not Like Everybody Else (R4, 2010, 2011)
• The News Quiz (R4, 2011)
• Act Your Age (R4, 2011)
• 4 Stands Up (R4, 2009)
• Andrew Lawrence’s Cultural Radio Odyssey (series of 8), Weekender Show (BBC Radio 2, 2007)
• Shipwrecked (Presenter of 20-part series) (Channel 4 Radio, 2007)
• The Milk Run (Sony Nominated) (BBC Radio 1, 2006)
Live
• Andrew Lawrence: The Best Kept Secret In Comedy Tour (Edinburgh Festival 2011)
• Andrew Lawrence: The Too Ugly For Television Tour (Edinburgh Festival 2010 then national tour)
• Soul-Crushing Vicissitudes of Fortune! (Edinburgh Festival 2009)
• Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There! (Edinburgh Festival 2008)
• Social Leprosy For Beginners and Improvers (Soho Theatre, 2008)
• Social Leprosy For Beginners and Improvers (Edinburgh Festival 2007)
• How To Butcher Your Loved Ones (Edinburgh Festival 20
• Live At The Apollo (BBC1, 2011)
• Ask Rhod Gilbert (BBC1, 2011)
• Stand Up For The Week (C4, 2011)
• Dave’s One Night Stand (Dave, 2010)
• Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow (BBC1, 2010)
• Edinburgh Comedy Fest Live (BBC3, 2010)
• Comedy Store (Comedy Central, 2010)
• Brighton Comedy Festival Best of the Fest (C4, 2009)
• Ideal – Role of “Marco” (BBC3, 2007, 2008, 2009)
• Headcases – voice of “David Miliband” (ITV 1, 2008)
• World Stands Up - headliner (Paramount Comedy Channel, 2008)
• Splitting Cells (BBC3, 2007)
• Spacehopper – Various characters (BBC3, 2007)
• Comedy Cuts (ITV2, 2007)
• Comedy Shuffle (BBC 3, 2007)
• 28 Acts in 28 Minutes (BBC 3, 2006)
• World Stands Up (Paramount Comedy Channel, BBC America, 2005, 2006)
Devastatingly funny
Guardian
His acidly nihilistic set raised the laughs just as surely as it lowered the standards of morals and decency
Hilarious…the spontaneity meant the audience all felt part of a unique underground moment that could
never be repeated - or possibly even spoken about again
Chortle
Carefully crafted material
The relentless string of bitterness that spews from his bilious mouth is artful – and very funny
Chortle
Andrew Lawrence’s comedic delivery is Jacobean in its visceral putrescence
The Age, Melbourne
Quite possibly the strangest and most original new comedian on the block…His material is dark and more than a
bit twisted, but irresistibly funny.
The Irish Independent
Comedy’s most bountiful little ball of hatred…A fabulous show
The Times
Exquisitely evil…The writing is tight and razor-sharp, pulling no punches. He attacks everyone and everything
with poetic machine-gun bullets of acid tipped comedy. A genius gremlin gnawing away at society.
Time Out
Andrew Lawrence has to be seen to be believed…formidably funny
Time Out
Homicidal musings have never seemed so appealing!
The List
Lawrence is so thorough in assuming his character, that he often comes across as a young man who really does
kill the thing he loves then feasts on the gooeyness inside, singing a tune about it as some kind of terrible yet
touchingly inevitable catharsis. His victims’ losses are truly comedy’s gain
Scotsman
Lawrence is certainly not for the faint hearted but for those that brave it - it is quite, quite brilliant
Chortle
One of the greatest as-yet undiscovered talents on the circuit
Daily Mirror
On 2010 Edinburgh Show The Too Ugly For Television Tour 2010
Top quality, urgent and compulsive work from one of the Fringe's genuine mavericks
The Mirror
One of the most passionate, articulate and talented acts on the circuit
Chortle
The brilliance of Lawrence’s act lies within its relentlessness. If he has an itch he doesn’t just scratch it, he
worries at it until it bleeds
The List
Lawrence, should he so wish, could be the defining stand-up comic of his generation
The Guardian
The care with which he crafts his lines of dense, disgusting insult, the poetic bile he spews forth, evokes a
wonderfully distinctive persona
The Guardian
On 2009 Edinburgh Show Soul-Crushing Vicissitudes of Fortune!
Comedy Gold
List
Eloquent, savage, ginger. Andrew Lawrence should, by rights be massive
Metro
He is Nietzsche doing stand up: proof that there is laughter in the abyss
Sunday Herald
The absolute best at what he does, capable of achieving virtually anything…you laugh uproariously
Scotsman
A brutally tight hour…Lawrence’s days as the awards bridesmaid should be over
Herald
There’s a terrifying beauty to his language
Times
a polished and confident comedian who keeps the humour fast and current…hilarious
List
Inspired…Genuine comic gold
Telegraph
On 2008 Edinburgh Show Don’t Just Do Something: Sit There
Damn fine jokes.
You should ignore the advice Lawrence gives in the title and do something: go see the show
Chortle
He had…his audience choking with laughter and a few wiping tears from their eyes.
[he builds up] from good lines to great lines to absolute killer lines in a crescendo of mirth.
Lawrence packs more laughs into one of his 90-second rants than most comics manage in half an hour.
The Scotsman
His delivery is nothing short of genius
A wordsmith of great talent
Metro
Splendid
Daily Telegraph
Makes belly laughs from bile
Scotland on Sunday
One of the funniest and brightest young talents of the UK stand-up circuit.
Utter perfection
The Guardian Guide
On 2007 if.comedy nominated Edinburgh Show Social Leprosy For Beginners and Improvers:
If comedy could be translated into music, Andrew Lawrence’s show would sound, like Tchaikovsky, all grandiose,
overwrought cadences descending into glorious despair.
His fabulous hyperbole is executed with forensic skill and fuelled by depths of misanthropy and pessimism rarely
found outside a secure ward
The Scotsman
I think he will be very big very soon
The Scotsman
Lawrence is a natural born funnyman, blessed with a talent for accents and funny voices
The Guardian
…his descriptions brilliantly worded
The Guardian
A picaresque cross between Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’s Childcatcher and Leonard Rossiter
Metro
Superbly twisted and well-realised work…a dark and grisly treat
Metro
It’s a joy to be in his contemptuous company
The Times
He expresses his festering negatively beautifully, a relentless onslaught of savage adjectives and corrosively evil
metaphors. The florid language, the ceaseless pace of great lines and the vigour with which he pursues his
derision all combine for a barnstorming show
Chortle
…supremely polished, erudite and bloody funny show
The List
Lawrence is dazzling and he’s certainly unique
The Independent on Sunday
…film-casting agent’s dream for a certain type of scary misfit – especially so as he has a rare facility for accents,
too
The Telegraph
