Rhod Gilbert started stand up in
early 2002. In his first eighteen months, he reached the finals of
every major new talent competition in the UK and has now emerged as
one of the most promising and exciting talents on the UK and
international comedy scene. After being singled out by the Sunday
Times as “One to watch” in 2005 Rhod went on to scoop the
Chortle Award for Best Breakthrough Act and then made a huge
splash at the Edinburgh Festival with his hotly anticipated
debut show ‘Rhod Gilbert’s 1984’ which earned him a nomination
for the prestigious Perrier Newcomer Award and The List
Festival Writers Guild Award.
Rhod is now in tremendous demand on the live comedy circuit and
headlines regularly in the UK and around the world. Early last year he
supported Lee Mack on a nationwide tour, and has been a regular
TV warm-up for both BBC Wales and Objective Comedy. In
the Autumn of last year, following a sell out, critically acclaimed
Edinburgh run, Rhod toured his show ‘Rhod Gilbert’s 1984’
around venues in the UK - and completed a run in London’s Soho
Theatre.
Further a field, his international profile continues to soar; in 2004
he was invited to perform at the Adelaide Fringe Festival in 'Best
of the Edinburgh Fest', a show which subsequently toured
Australia, finishing with a sell out week at the Sydney Comedy
Store. He was invited back to Australia again last year to perform
at the 2005 Melbourne International Comedy Festival and
invitations swiftly followed to the prestigious Kilkenny Cat Laughs
Festival, where he performed in June 2005, and the Montreal
Just for Laughs Comedy Festival, in July 2005. He was selected to
perform at the esteemed televised Britcom Gala in Montreal,
performing to a sell-out audience in a star studded salute to British
Comedy. He was singled out by all the major press including the
Hollywood Reporter, the New York Daily News, The
Montreal Gazette and LA’s Variety as one of the most
promising talents of the festival. He heads back down under in
February to perform by invitation, at the 2006 Adelaide, Melbourne,
Sydney and New Zealand Comedy Festivals.
In the last 12 months Rhod has also taken his inimitable stand-up to
Ireland, Brussels, Paris and to the Middle and Far East where he
performed in Dubai, Doha, Bahrain, Hong Kong and Thailand as well as
being the first comedian ever to perform in Taiwan. He has just
returned from a tour of Iraq where he spent a week entertaining the
British troops performing 10 shows in and around Basra and Baghdad –
including one show in Saddam Hussein’s former palace.
A 30 minute documentary profile entitled ‘Rhod Gilbert Stands Up
For Wales’ was transmitted on BBC 1, Wales in the autumn of
2005. Exploring Rhod’s comedy roots, the documentary followed Rhod on
his route to the Edinburgh festival to perform his debut solo show.
Other recent TV appearances include ‘The Comedy Store’ for
Paramount and Scottish TV and Paramount’s ‘Live at the
Fringe’. He also appeared at the Bloomsbury Theatre as part of
Paramount’s impressive ‘Edinburgh & Beyond’ show. Look out for
him as a panellist on the forthcoming new series of ‘Never Mind The
Buzzcocks’ which airs in the Spring. Making waves in the world of
radio, he recently joined Lee Mack on BBC Radio 2’s ‘Edinburgh
Nights’ and was also invited to join Paul Merton as a
panellist on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Just A Minute’.
Following this success as a stand-up, TV and radio personality, he was
chosen as the ‘Voice of Wales’. Following in the footsteps of
Tom Jones, Shirley Bassey, Aled Jones and Charlotte Church, he is
currently representing his country in the Welsh Tourist Board’s
national television advertising campaign. He is also the new voice
of the Paramount Comedy Channel, writing and recording links for
their evening schedule.
He is currently busy working on several original ideas for TV and
Radio.
Edinburgh Festival
2005 Rhod performed his hotly anticipated Perrier Nominated debut solo
show ‘Rhod Gilbert’s 1984’ at the Pleasance Courtyard. A total sell
out with extra shows added due to public demand.
2004 Performed alongside fellow stand-up
Mark Watson in ‘Stereocomics’ with sell out shows at the Edinburgh
Comedy Rooms.
2003 Performed in ‘Three Men and a
Giant’ and ‘Cave Comedy – The Best of the Hackney Empire New Act of
the Year’
Competitions and Awards - Rhod has won an unprecedented number
of UK comedy awards
Nominated for Perrier Newcomer – Edinburgh 2005
Nominated for Writers Guild Award - Edinburgh 2005
Winner - Chortle Best Breakthrough Act 2005
Winner - BBC3 New Comedy Awards at the Edinburgh Festival 2003
Winner - Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year at the Leicester
Festival 2003
Winner – National Talent Hunt at the York Festival 2003
Winner - Paramount Gift of the Gag competition 2003
Winner – Metro and Jongleurs Spike Award for New Talent, South East
2003
Nominated for Chortle Best Newcomer Award 2003
Second place - Hackney Empire New Act of the Year 2003
Second place - Metro and Jongleurs, Stand and Deliver, Spike Award for
New Talent 2003
Finalist – SYTYF 2002
Television & Radio
‘Never Mind The Buzzcocks’ – BBC 2, Spring 2006
‘Rhod Gilbert Stands Up For Wales’ - BBC 1 Wales, October 2005
‘Live from the Fringe’ – STV and Paramount, August 2005
‘Edinburgh Nights’ – BBC Radio 2, August 2005
‘Just A Minute’ – BBC Radio 4, August 2005
‘Edinburgh & Beyond’ - Paramount, September 2005
’The Comedy Store Series 2004’ - Paramount Comedy Channel, October
2004
'Undoubtedly destined for top billing' Evening Standard
'Hot newcomer…one to watch out for in 2005' Sunday Times
'Definite star potential…the one they're all talking about' Metro
'Wondrously surreal…Gilbert will illuminate the night sky of comedy
way into the distant future' Time Out
'Great ideas...delightful images...and for sheer invention, there are
few to rival him….a truly original voice, and one that is brilliantly
funny…in short, one classy comedian' Chortle
REVIEWS FOR ‘RHOD GILBERT’S 1984’
'Rhod Gilbert makes me laugh like a pitiless idiot' The Scotsman
'A superb one hours set…a pure delight' The List
'A master of comic control' The Times
'No minute is spent without laughing' Three Weeks
'Weird and wonderful stories from Gilbert’s vivid and wonderfully
unconventional imagination' Chortle
'You’ll be laughing yourself silly' Metro
“A thing of beauty…an impeccably nuanced set that creeps up and
seduces you” Evening Standard
'Mightily funny…imagine ‘Under Milkwood’ rewritten by Spike Milligan
additional material by Salvador Dali' Time Out
'A masterpiece of slow-burn surrealism' Evening Standard
'It’s laugh out very loud stuff' The Critics Choice, Independent on
Sunday
'One of the highlights of the festival this year…really quite
remarkable…simply hilarious' www.paramountcomedy.co.uk
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