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Rhodri Paul Gilbert (born 18 October 1968) is a Welsh comedian and television & radio presenter who was nominated in 2005 for the Perrier Best Newcomer Award. In 2008 he was nominated for the main comedy award (as the Edinburgh Comedy Awards were then branded). Gilbert appears on television and radio panel shows, has performed stand-up on the
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, and hosted a weekly show on
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. In September 2014 Gilbert started presenting the
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panel show ''
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'', ending a run of five series without a permanent host, although the show ended in May 2015.


Early life

Gilbert was born in
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, Wales, one of three siblings to two teacher parents, his father hailing from
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and his mother from
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. He attended Maridunum Comprehensive School and went on to study languages at
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. For the first three weeks, such was his painful shyness that Gilbert was unable to eat with other students in the canteen or even make friends with the student in the next room. After graduating, Gilbert travelled for a year and a half around Australia and Asia before returning to Carmarthen and working as an admin assistant for the
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. He later worked as a
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er for several
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agencies in London.


Career


Stand-up comedy

Gilbert got into professional comedy in 2002, after taking part in
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Stand Up and Deliver course, but only "thanks to a girlfriend’s constant nagging". Within 18 months, Gilbert had already won several different talent competitions and was nominated for the ''Perrier Newcomer'' award for his first solo show in 2005 at
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entitled ''1984.'' He has since performed worldwide. Many of Gilbert's stories are drawn from real life events, and his life in the wholly fictionalised village of Llanbobl. In 2008, Gilbert wrote a sitcom about life in Llanbobl, which featured on
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. In his 2006
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show ''Knocking on Heaven's Door'', Gilbert told stories from his life, weighing up whether he would be admitted to heaven. His 2007 show, ''Who's Eaten Gilbert's Grape?'', saw Gilbert return to Llanbobl and pick up the story following the ''1984'' show narrative. His 2008 show, ''Rhod Gilbert and the Award-Winning Mince Pie'', saw Gilbert question his sanity, his career and his life after suffering a mental breakdown brought on by the award-winning mince pie at a motorway services. On 17 December 2008, he appeared at the 80th
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. On 18 and 19 June 2009, Gilbert made the last performances of ''Rhod Gilbert and the Award-Winning Mince Pie'' show at the
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, which was recorded and released as a DVD on 16 November 2009. The DVD also contains several special features, including his rant about lost luggage, outtakes from the performance, in which he chats with the audience and deals with hecklers and a
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called ''Back to Llanbobl'' in which Gilbert shows the viewer around his fictional home town, filmed in
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, Powys. Gilbert's 2009/10 show, ''Rhod Gilbert and the Cat That Looked Like
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'' previewed around the UK in small venues before being performed at the Edinburgh Festival. The show toured UK theatres from September 2009. The tour included dates at many prestigious theatres such as London's HMV
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. A DVD of the tour was released on 15 November 2010.


Tours

* 1984 * Knocking on Heaven's Door * Who's Eaten Gilbert's Grape * The Award-Winning Mince Pie * The Cat That Looked Like Nicholas Lyndhurst * The Man with the Flaming Battenberg Tattoo * The Book of John


Stand-up DVDs


Television

On
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, Gilbert has made a number of guest appearances on '' Would I Lie to You?''. He has appeared five and three times respectively on the
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panel shows '' QI'' and ''
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'', and presented two episodes of ''
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'' in October 2009 and December 2011 before becoming the permanent presenter for the final series. He hosted three episodes of '' Have I Got News for You'' in April 2011, October 2017, and May 2018; has appeared as a guest on
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's ''
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''; and wrote and narrated
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's 2007 ''Goals Galore'', ''Pranks Galore'', ''Football Gaffes Galore'' and ''TV Gaffes Galore'' programmes. He also presented BBC 2W's ''Rhod Gilbert's Teen Tribes'', providing an insight into the worlds of "
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s" and "
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". Gilbert was Paramount Comedy's
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and announcer between September 2004 and October 2005, providing end-credit voice-overs for their peak time programme schedule. In December 2008, Gilbert was signed for a campaign to promote tourism in Wales and became the official Voice of Wales for the country's tourist board, fronting the 2009
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television advertising. Gilbert has reported for the BBC One current affairs/human interest show ''The One Show''. In November 2008, Gilbert appeared on the
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's '' Live at the Apollo'' as a guest. In December 2009, he hosted the show, introducing fellow comedian
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. On 6 June 2009 Gilbert appeared as the headline act on ''
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'' on
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, and as a guest on ''8 out of 10 Cats'' on 17 July 2009. He also provided voiceover material for the sketch show '' Walk on the Wild Side''. On 19 January 2010, ''
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'' aired on
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.
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worked freelance as producer/directors, editors and also camera and sound on the series for Presentable RDF. The four-part series saw Gilbert attempt a number of jobs including hairdresser,
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, soldier and parent. Following the show's success on BBC One Wales, the series aired nationally on BBC2 from 10 March. In August 2010, the BBC commissioned eight episodes of ''
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'' following a successful pilot earlier in 2010. The show featured Gilbert,
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and
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answering random trivia questions, such as 'Who would win in a race, Usain Bolt or a grizzly bear?', posed by the public and celebrities, with additional celebrity guests on the panel. The show ran for two series. On 7 March 2011, series 2 of ''Rhod Gilbert's Work Experience'' began airing on BBC One Wales. In this series he tried out jobs as a farmer,
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, tattoo artist and firefighter. In January 2012, Gilbert began filming series 3 of the show. It aired on BBC One Wales from 7 May 2012 and saw him take on jobs such as primary school teacher, zookeeper,
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and police officer. A fourth series was broadcast in June–July 2013. This series, the jobs were wedding planner, scout leader, tour guide and male model. Series 5, which had four episodes, began on BBC One Wales in September 2014 and was repeated on BBC Two from February 2015. Series 6 was broadcast on BBC One Wales starting February 2016. In September 2014, Gilbert started presenting the
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panel show ''
Never Mind the Buzzcocks ''Never Mind the Buzzcocks'' is a British comedy panel game show with a pop music theme. It has aired on Sky Max since September 2021, having originally aired between November 1996 and January 2015 on BBC Two. The original series was first hoste ...
'', ending a run of five series without a permanent host. In May 2015, however, the BBC ended the show. The documentary ''Rhod Gilbert vs Kilimanjaro'', chronicling the attempt to climb
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for charity made by Gilbert and several fellow celebrities, was shown on the BBC in December 2014. Gilbert appeared several times on the Channel 4 comedy/game show ''
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''. He replaced comedian
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as the host of '' The Apprentice: You're Fired!'' beginning in 2016. In 2019, he stepped down and was replaced by Tom Allen. In September 2018, Gilbert appeared as a contestant of the 7th series of '' Taskmaster'' alongside
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,
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,
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and
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. In November 2021, Gilbert was a guest presenter for BBC's ''
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: Children in Need 2021''. In 2020, he became the presenter of
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’s ''
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''.


Radio

In 2006, Gilbert hosted the
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comedy panel show ''Jest a Minute'', live from
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in London. The second series of ''Jest a Minute'' was recorded in late 2008 in
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's
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, hosted by Gilbert and featuring regular team captains
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and
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, and guests from the comedy circuit such as
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,
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,
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and
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. A third series was also broadcast. Gilbert was also the host of
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's '' 4 Stands Up'' comedy series which aired in the Autumn of 2008 and has also appeared twice on Radio Four's '' Just a Minute'', Radio 2's '' Does the Team Think?'', and BBC Radio 4's ''Act Your Age''. In December 2008, a pilot of his sitcom ''Rhod Gilbert's Leaving Llanbobl'' was broadcast on BBC Radio 2; the sitcom was written and starred Gilbert and
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, with additional writing by Sian Harries.
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played Gilbert's amiable younger brother Emrys;
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played Brenda, a gossipy hairdresser; and Mike Hayward played Gilbert's father Gurnos. The show was produced by Ed Morrish. Gilbert has hinted in interviews that the sitcom is likely to move to TV when it is completed as he found that he was "seeing it" as he wrote it. Gilbert has also made several appearances on the
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comedy program '' The Unbelievable Truth''. In 2011, he recorded a radio show for
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called '' Rhod Gilbert's Bulging Barrel of Laughs'' with comedians
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,
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and
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. Each show also featured live music from bands such as
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and
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. It has since been repeated on BBC Radio 4 Extra. From 2006 to 2019, Gilbert also fronted his own radio show, ''The Rhod Gilbert Radio Show'', broadcast by
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on Saturdays between 11:30am and 1:30 pm, often co-hosted by fellow Welsh Comedians
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,
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or
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.


Personal life

Gilbert married his long-term girlfriend, writer and comedian
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, in August 2013. They divide their time between
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and
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. The two have no children and in 2021 Gilbert took part in a documentary series about the stigma of male infertility. Gilbert has also played
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, including as a doubles partner with former gold medallist Anthony D. Jordan, relating his story on an episode of the BBC panel show '' Would I Lie to You?'' In July 2022, Gilbert announced he had been diagnosed with "stage four"
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and was being treated at the
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in Cardiff, of which he is a patron. He stated his pre-diagnosis symptoms had worsened while fundraising for Velindre in Cuba, where he also contracted
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. In December 2022 fellow comedian
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promoted Gilbert's DVD ''The Book of John'' on
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'' on Gilbert's behalf.


Awards

2002: * Finalist in ''So You Think You're Funny'' 2003: * Winner of the ''Leicester Mercury'' comedian of the year as part of the Leicester Comedy Festival * Winner of the Paramount ''Gift of the Gag'' competition * Chortle Award nominee for best new act * Winner of the BBC New Comedy Award at the
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* Runner-up in the
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''New Act of The Year competition'' * Winner of the Metro and Jongleurs ''Spike Award for New Talent'', South East * Winner of the ''National Talent Hunt'' at the
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Festival 2005: * Chortle award for ''Best Breakthrough Act'' * Nominated for ''The List and Writers Guild Comedy Award'' for ''Rhod Gilbert's 1984'' * Perrier nominated for ''Best Newcomer'' for ''Rhod Gilbert's 1984'' 2006: * Placed in ''
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''s ''Top 50 Comedians'' * Named one of The Rough Guide to British Cult Comedy's top 50 icons 2008: *Nominated for the main IF.COM Eddies (formerly Perrier award) at the Edinburgh Fringe for ''Rhod Gilbert and the Award-winning Mince Pie'' *Winner of the Time Out 'Comic of the Year' *Winner of the Time Out 'Best Show of the Year' for ''Rhod Gilbert and the Award-winning Mince Pie'' *Winner of the Time Out 'Breakthrough Act' *Nominated for the Celtic Media awards 'Best Radio Personality' for the ''Rhod Gilbert Radio Show'' on BBC Radio Wales 2009: * Nominated for the Times/South Bank Show Awards, 'Breakthrough Act' * Winner of Chortle award for 'Best Headliner' * Winner of "Comics Comic" Chortle award * Nominated for the Chortle award for ''Best Show'' for ''Rhod Gilbert and the Award-winning Mince Pie'' 2010: * Winner of 'Wales' Sexiest Male' 2014: * Honorary Fellowship at Aberystwyth University


References


External links

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Review and details of awardsFunny Money film shorts with Rhod Gilbert
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BBC raw money''The Rhod Gilbert Show''
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