British Comedy Guide

Rhys Jones

  • Stand-up comedian

Press clippings

Griff Rhys Jones interview

Tiggerish Griff Rhys Jones on how anger got him ahead in television, coping with rejection and why Mel Smith's death was 'very, very annoying'.

Matthew Stadlen, The Telegraph, 3rd November 2014

Controversy as Girff Rhys Jones made uni chancellor

Comedian Griff Rhys Jones has become unwittingly embroiled in a row at Cardiff University over his appointment as the University's new Chancellor.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 14th April 2014

Lost poems of Douglas Adams and Griff Rhys Jones found

The lost poems of Douglas Adams and Griff Rhys Jones have been found in school cupboard.

Alison Flood, The Guardian, 19th March 2014

Griff Rhys Jones: I'm exploring my real Welshness

"My father became Welsh on the telephone, God bless him. Even in Epping, Wales was my homeland"

Griff Rhys Jones, Radio Times, 6th January 2014

Griff Rhys Jones interview

Griff Rhys Jones, about to play Charles Dickens on stage, talks about the author's inexhaustible talent and his popularisation of Christmas.

Charlotte Runcie, The Telegraph, 30th November 2013

Griff Rhys Jones: 'Mel Smith died shockingly early.'

Comedy partner reveals how he coped with his friend's death.

Tara Conlan, The Observer, 16th November 2013

Griff Rhys Jones on his comedy soul mate Mel Smith

"I think we made some 50 hours of TV together. God knows a lot of it won't bear repeating, but when it was good it was sheer bliss to perform with Mel".

Griff Rhys Jones, Radio Times, 3rd August 2013

Griff Rhys Jones: Mel & I didn't have much in common

Making shows with the late Mel Smith was 'not exactly a marriage made in heaven', his comedy partner Griff Rhys Jones has admitted.

Caroline Westbrook, Metro, 30th July 2013

Griff Rhys Jones blog

Comedian, TV presenter and 'renaissance man' Griff Rhys Jones on getting rich, his desire to be liked, and the 'love of a good woman'.

Griff Rhys Jones, The Big Issue, 19th June 2012

Griff Rhys Jones: When exactly was that, then?

The past catches up with the present for Griff Rhys Jones as host of a panel show that grapples with recent history.

Griff Rhys Jones, The Telegraph, 13th June 2012

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