Laura Lexx

Laura Lexx (born 28 September 1986) is an English comedian and writer originally from Somerset. She was brought up in Taunton, attended Bishop Fox's School and studied drama at the University of Kent from 2005 to 2009, performing comedy during a spell working as a search engine optimiser before turning to comedy full-time in 2015. She performed Tyrannosaurus Lexx at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2016 and was a finalist at the 2016 Amused Moose Comedy Awards, and her 2018 show Trying discussed her attempts at starting a family and the effects on her mental health. She won the Comedians' Choice award at the 2019 Chortle Awards, and her television appearances have included Roast Battle, Hypothetical, Live at the Apollo and Mock the Week. After tweets imagining life with Liverpool F.C. manager Jurgen Klopp went viral, she landed a book deal and released the book Klopp Actually in autumn 2020, followed by the novel Pivot in 2022. She married fellow comedian Tom Livingstone in 2015.