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Rhod Gilbert may be one of Wales' funniest men, but his rugby memories are no laughing matter - at least not to himself. "I used to play in all the try scoring positions for my school in Carmarthen, but I never scored a try," recalls the BBC Wales radio and TV entertainer.
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Orwell predicted a bad year, Rhod Gilbert had a stinker. The Welshman has created a niche with surreal shaggy dog stories that meticulously wring every last laugh out of such bizarre situations as a football game involving his grandmother's pancreas. In 2003 Rhod won five of the
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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, winning an unprecedented four - including the prestigious BBC New Comedy Awards at the Edinburgh Festival and the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year - and getting the runner up spot in two (Hackney Empire New Act of the Year and the Jongleurs Spike Award for New Talent). He was ... nominated for a Chortle Best Newcomer Award in his first 12 months. He now performs regularly in the UK and around the world. Following sell out shows at the Edinburgh festival in 2003, he was invited to perform at the 2004 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. Rhod was singled out as one of the most exciting performers of the festival.
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Rhod Gilbert winds up his national tour on Monday, and anyone near enough to Oxford should rush to see this laconic Welsh comic. Gilbert's subject matter may be routine (1970s board games such as Mousetrap and Buckaroo), but what he does with it is something else. A comic with his own voice (that's saying something these days), his latest one-man show, Who's Eaten Gilbert's Grape? is inspired by the film What's Eating Gilbert Grape? "Gilbert Grape's life had taken a slight detour. Rhod Gilbert's has fallen asleep at the wheel and driven into a ravine."
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Wales's star of the comedy circuit, Rhod Gilbert, is joined by fellow stand-up Chris Corcoran for entertaining chat and banter. Broadcast weekly on Radio Wales, every Saturday from 11 AM to 1 PM.
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Rhod Gilbert's laugh count is always high and this was no exception. He is one of the best stand-ups on the circuit and with a mix of relaxed self-confidence and a dark view of life will always amuse.
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