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Griff Rhys Jones

Griff Rhys Jones

  • 70 years old
  • Welsh
  • Actor, executive, comedian, writer and producer

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Cast revealed for 'What A Carve Up!' online show

Stephen Fry, Rebecca Front, Derek Jacobi and Griff Rhys Jones are amongst the cast making a new online version of satirical novel What A Carve Up!.

British Comedy Guide, 28th September 2020

Griff Rhys Jones 'humbled' as he collects OBE

The 66-year-old was given the honour for services to entertainment and charity.

BT, 20th December 2019

Not the Nine O'Clock News at 40

The BBC sketch show not only kick-started 'alternative comedy' and some of the most influential careers in British comedy, writes Gerard Gilbert, but also the second great age of TV satire.

Gerard Gilbert, The Independent, 16th October 2019

Griff Rhys Jones reveals 2019 tour

Griff Rhys Jones will tour his new stand-up show - titled All Over The Place - this autumn.

British Comedy Guide, 5th July 2019

Olivia Colman gets CBE, Griff Rhys Jones gets OBE

Olivia Colman and Griff Rhys Jones are among those named in the Queen's Birthday Honours. Colman will get a CBE, and Rhys Jones an OBE.

British Comedy Guide, 8th June 2019

Clive Anderson on Whose Line

Griff Rhys Jones ate John Sessions' socks, Josie Lawrence hit the high notes and Colin Mochrie's Salmon Man went low. Ahead of three live Albert Hall specials, the presenter-cum-drummer looks back.

Clive Anderson, The Guardian, 13th December 2018

Griff Rhys Jones interview

Talking travel, television and his latest sell-out show, Where Was I?, Griff Rhys Jones talks to SoGlos ahead of his appearance at the Everyman Theatre.

So Glos, 31st May 2018

Griff Rhys Jones review

There's no shortage of self-deprecating chatter as the comic looks back on a life of globetrotting in his touring show.

Brian Logan, The Guardian, 28th February 2018

Griff Rhys Jones interview

The actor and comedian on being lazy, losing his cool and public shaming.

Rosanna Greenstreet, The Guardian, 30th December 2017

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