Education
Born in Croydon, Lawrence attended Tiffin School, Kingston and the University of Street Andrews, where he started his stand-up career at a regular comedy night.
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Lawrence"s university debut led on to the Edinburgh fringe, where he was runner up in the 2003 So You Think You"re Funny competition. Subsequent wins of the Amused Moose Starsearch, York Comedy Festival New Acting of the Year Competition and the British Broadcasting Corporation"s New Acting of the Year Competition in 2004 provided him further exposure on the United Kingdom comedy scene. He presented his first hour-long comedy show at the 2006 Edinburgh Festival Fringe entitled How to Butcher your Loved Ones.
lieutenant was nominated for the if.comeddie award (as it was known for that year only) for Best Newcomer.
His 2007 Fringe show, Social Leprosy Foreign Beginners & Improvers, was nominated for the main if.comedy award. He has returned to the Fringe every year up to 2015.
As well as touring shows in the United Kingdom, Lawrence has performed abroad at the Just Foreign Laughs Montreal Festival Showcase and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Lawrence has featured in numerous radio and television shows, mostly as a stand-up performer.
He has also appeared on television as a comic actor, playing the builder Marco in the British Broadcasting Corporation television sitcom Ideal.
He has written and performed four series for British Broadcasting Corporation 4, most recently the 2015 sitcom There Is Number Escape.
Politics
On October 25, 2014, Lawrence wrote a lengthy post on his official Facebook page attacking fellow comedians for making "cheap and easy gags about UKIP". Despite appearing on many of its comedy programmes in the past, his post singled out the British Broadcasting Corporation and particularly its panel show Mock the Week, which he described as a programme where "aging, balding, fat men, ethnic comedians and women-posing-as-comedians, sit congratulating themselves on how enlightened they are about the fact that UKIP are ridiculous and pathetic". The post, and subsequent Twitter disputes with fellow comedians such as Dara Ó Briain and Frankie Boyle, were widely covered in the United Kingdom press
On October 3, 2015, he qualified his political beliefs in a post on his website, saying "I"ve noticed a number of journalists in comedy have taken to labeling me a "right-wing comedian". I don"t subscribe to any political ideology and I am not in any way affiliated with any political organisation." However, he also acknowledged that he has "certainly been very critical of the resurgent hard-left wing in British politics" and "critical of left-wing hysteria on the internet, and the left-wing establishment in comedy".
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