Rhod Gilbert

Video: Rhod Gilbert's view on gifts

Rhod Gilbert is back on tour, visiting more than 100 different venues. He spoke to BBC Breakfast about his dislike of unacceptable gifts, including an electric toothbrush - "might as well get me a toilet brush, or a bottle of bleach".

Rhod Gilbert interview

Rhod Gilbert doesn't like dressing as a woman, but he's fallen in love with teaching. We talk to him about his new tour, and his Work Experience show...

Rhod Gilbert interview

Rhod Gilbert has had more jobs than many stand-ups, only getting into professional comedy aged 32 after being nagged by his girlfriend.

Rhod Gilbert interview

Rhod Gilbert returns this week with the DVD release of Rhod Gilbert's Work Experience, the show that sees the funny man take on a whole host of everyday jobs...

Rhod Gilbert on being waxed, bitten, and beaten

He swapped his office job for stand-up fame, but Rhod Gilbert's about to return to the daily grind for another bout of Work Experience on TV.

Ah, Des O'Connor. Indefatigable crooner, Morecambe and Wise foil, chat-show host and borderline national treasure. Who knew he's daft enough to eat cat food by accident? Or is he? Maybe his long, peculiar story about how he dined on this strange dish in a holiday villa is all nonsense.

O'Connor, looking as bronzed as a 70s sideboard, is a game contestant on Lee Mack's team, and quickly gets into the spirit of the show after a giggly start. Meanwhile, on David Mitchell's team, Rhod Gilbert regales us with an account of the acute trauma he suffered at an airport.

And comic actress Sally Phillips (Smack the Pony, Miranda) apparently plays a texting-game with her husband while he's at the swimming baths. Worse, she once rode her uncle's mobility scooter with disastrous consequences. Perhaps. It's a great show, and what Friday nights are for.

Rhod Gilbert on the horrors of undergoing a 97% bodywax

"I can honestly say that one of most horrific things I've ever done is to walk into a pub quiz in Aldershot dressed as a 6ft 3in woman" says Rhod Gilbert.

First raft of shows for 2012 Edinburgh Fringe programme

Stewart Lee, Jimmy Carr, Rhod Gilbert and more to appear at Fringe 2012.

Now revamped as a panel show, Room 101's new incarnation benefits from the boisterous banter between the guests as they compete to have their pet peeves consigned to the dumpster. Tonight's hopefuls include Countdown crew members past and present, with current host Nick Hewer squaring up against the show's former number cruncher Carol Vorderman. Brash comedian Rhod Gilbert joins them as they bemoan personal horrors including advertising slogans, Facebook, and opening ceremonies.

Rhod Gilbert barely made a peep in 2011, but this year looks set to be more productive for the comic, with a new stand-up show, The Man With the Battenburg Tattoo, on its way. In the interim we'll have to make do with this, a reshowing of his first filmed live show. Award-Winning Mince Pie sees Gilbert leaving whimsy behind to try his hand at "real life" comedy, though an altercation with a mince pie at Knutsford service station soon has him tumbling back into fantasy.