Trish Smart is an up-and-coming stand-up comic, mixed media artist, and digital nomad. She navigates between getting gigs and setting up her own shows, as well as trying to find paying jobs and ways to support herself while traveling the world. These tell-all stories go through the ups and downs of doing it yourself.

MD/NC January 2022
I know money buys freedom but I was always obsessed with stealing it.

FL/GA/NC/TN/DC December 2021
Picture us on a screen, fade out on us being happy on Christmas eve, and me yelling at myself on the screen, “don’t go back!” As I go back.

FL/NV/AZ/DC/MD November 2021
I am sure the start of the holidays is hard for most people, but there’s something about the cold that creeps into me, even when running away to Florida.

LV/NC/DC October 2021
It is easy to make fun of someone, it is hard to make fun of someone and not have them hate you.

Nashville to Las Vegas October 2021
Women comics are like the WNBA, just as good but no one gives a sh*t.

NC/TN September 2021
I can’t lie, it made my night, it might’ve been one of the best things I’ve seen in comedy; not the lady yelling at him, but him attempting to do a bit about jerking off in your own face while trying not to cry about what just happened.

Las Vegas September 2021
I’m just a girl who wasn’t happy with the hand she was dealt and decided to stop playing the game.

Las Vegas August 2021
Mike and I took an impromptu trip to LA so I could meet his agent, I never did, which I joke is the authentic LA experience.

LV/LA July 2021
LA is a strange place where every time I told someone I was a comedian they would say, “me too.”

Touring Accompanied July 2021
So in hindsight, the booker probably thought all females were vulgar and I should’ve dived with dad jokes instead of thrive on anal.

Touring alone June 2021
“I don’t know much about St. Louis, but judging by the bikers I saw on my way in with no helmets, I’m gonna go ahead and say y’all have just given up.”