The first professional show Ete and Tofiga did together was called "Laughing With Samoans" which premiered in February 2003 at the New Zealand Fringe Festival at the Illott Chamber of the Wellington Town Hall, New Zealand. "Laughing With Samoans" was an instant hit, selling out in Wellington, Auckland and a return season in Wellington.

The show featured Tofiga as the MC, another young Samoan comedian, James Nokise as the opening act and Ete as the main attraction. By the end of the first Auckland season however, Ete and Tofiga decided to develop the show into a two-man show as James was looking to travel overseas.

"Laughing With Samoans" was such a hit people started referring to Ete and Tofiga as 'the Laughing With Samoans guys', so they abbreviated and adopted the name and the Laughing Samoans was born.

In October 2004, the Laughing Samoans premiered their first real show as a duo called "A Small Samoan Wedding" at the Dorothy Winstone Centre, Auckland Girls Grammar, Auckland, New Zealand. This was another hit with sell out shows throughout New Zealand, the Big Laugh Festival in Sydney, Australia, the 5,000 seater fMf Dome in Suva, Fiji, and the 2,000 seater National Auditorium in Rarotonga. It also toured Hawai'i and the United States.

In October 2005, the Laughing Samoans premiered ‘Old School' in Wellington and then toured it playing to packed houses throughout Australasia, the Pacific and north Am erica .  They performed in United States ( California , Alaska , Washington , Nevada , Kansas , Utah and Hawai'i ) the Pacific (Cook Islands, Fiji and Samoa) New Zealand ( Wellington , Auckland , Dunedin , Christchurch , Tokoroa, Hamilton and Napier) and Sydney , Melbourne and Brisbane in Australia.

In October 2006 the Laughing Samoans produced Off Work which premiered to a sell out crowd of 3,000 people at the Beaumont Centre in Auckland.  It played to another sell out crowd a week later at the Wellington Opera House.  Off Work toured the United States, New Zealand, the Pacific and Australia throughout 2007.

When the Laughing Samoans performed Off Work at the Blaisdell Centre on 12 th January 2007, Honolulu Mayor, Mufi Hannemann made a special presentation to them at the end of the show and declared the 12 th January, Laughing Samoans Day in Honolulu.  They also won the Business Enterprise of the Year Award at the New Zealand Pacific Business Awards in June 2007.

The latest from Ete and Tofiga is called Crack Me Off – yet another hit which sold out at the ASB Aotea Centre in Auckland on 26 th October and again at the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington the following night. The boys will tour Crack Me Off throughout 2008 and plan to premier yet another new show in October.