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Rhod Gilbert

Rhod Gilbert

  • 56 years old
  • Welsh
  • Writer, executive producer and stand-up comedian

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Rhod Gilbert review

Finding the funny in illness.

Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 13th May 2024

Rhod Gilbert And The Giant Grapefruit review

Rhod Gilbert And The Giant Grapefruit contains the most hilarious and life-affirming story about compacted faecal matter you're ever likely to hear.

Steve Bennett, Chortle, 10th May 2024

Rhod Gilbert review

Cancer takes a beating in this glorious show.

Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 9th May 2024

Rhod Gilbert review

Featuring marvellous, skating-on-thin-ice crowd work, the Welsh stand-up's new show sees him on tremendous and charmingly chaotic form.

Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph, 9th May 2024

Rhod Gilbert's Growing Pains to return for Series 6

Comedy Central has ordered another eight episodes of Rhod Gilbert's Growing Pains. Filmed in the autumn, the series - which will include a Christmas and New Year special - will be released later in 2024.

British Comedy Guide, 8th May 2024

Rhod Gilbert high on life after cancer treatment

Comedian Rhod Gilbert says "waking up every morning is exciting" after receiving treatment for cancer.

Lucy Owen, BBC, 3rd May 2024

Why I hate the c-word - no not that one, "confessional"

The word "confessional" is now ubiquitous in the arts - and it's a worrying trend that threatens the imagination.

Ben Lawrence, The Telegraph, 2nd May 2024

Rhod Gilbert "pinching himself" over return to comedy two years after cancer diagnosis

Rhod Gilbert has said he's shocked and elated to have returned to stand-up comedy just two years after receiving a stage four cancer diagnosis.

Lydia Spencer-Elliott, The Independent, 30th April 2024

Rhod Gilbert on finding comedy in his cancer treatment

"I suppose it's not the most attractive documentary to pitch to a broadcaster, is it? Saying, 'we don't know what the ending is going to be! It could be quite... dark'."

Ella Christian-Sims, Royal Television Society, 23rd April 2024

Rhod Gilbert interview

Welsh comic opens up on his "new normal" ahead of Liverpool shows.

Lawrence Saunders, YM Liverpool, 8th April 2024

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