ROB BRYDON
Best
Actor: British Comedy Awards 2001
Best
Newcomer: The British Comedy Awards 2000
The
South Bank Show Best Drama Award: Marion and Geoff
Best
Newcomer to the Network: Royal Television Society Awards
Best
Entertainment ‘Marion and Geoff’: The Broadcasting Press Guild of
Best
International Comedy ‘Human Remains’:
“Oh
bliss; oh joy and joyous day…eminently quotable, utterly subversive and just
hysterically, mind alteringly funny. No messing” Guardian
Born
in Swansea South Wales, Rob studied at the Welsh College of Music and Drama in
Rob
is currently starring in Michael Winterbottom’s film A Cock and Bull Story
with Steve Coogan. His other films include Sean Connery’s First Knight (1995);
the role of the brutalised traffic warden in Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
(1998); 24 Party People (2002) and more recently Mirror Mask.
Rob
co-wrote and starred in the award winning Human Remains (BBC2) and Marion and
Geoff, (BBC2); the second series was BAFTA nominated in 2004. Also, Marion and
Geoff special-A Small Summer Party (BBC2), ITV1’s Directors Commentary (BBC2),
created by his own production company Jones The Film and recently The Keith
Barret Show BBC2), where he gleans relationship advice from celebrity
couples. In March he starts filming the second series of Supernova for BBC2.
Rob
starred in Kenneth Tynan: In Praise of Hardcore, played the lead in Murder in
Mind on BBC1, was seen in BBC1’s costume Drama The Way We Live Now and, Cruise
of the Gods, BBC2. Rob is a regular guest on TV and Radio i.e. The Oscars, 2004
(BBC1), Parkinson (BBC1), Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (BBC1), Ronnie Barker:
A Bafta Tribute (BBC1), Top Gear (BBC2), Richard & Judy (CH4), This Morning
(ITV1), Today with Des ‘n’ Mel (ITV1), Just a Minute (R4), Jonathan Ross
(R2) and Steve Wright (R2).
In
May 2005, The Keith Barret Show embarked on a 51-date-national tour. 2004 was
was a huge success for Rob’s live work. The Keith Barret Show, at The
Edinburgh Fringe Festival, sold out the entire 3 week run in advance, and
The Daily Record hailed it as “The Funniest Show on the Fringe for the second
year running. In 2003 he completed a sell-out nationwide tour of the
Marion & Geoff Show. Keith Barret’s self help book Making Divorce
Work (Harper Collins) is now on sale.
PRESS
QUOTES: THE KEITH BARRET SHOW
“Simply
the funniest show on TV right now….the comedy highlight of the summer” Heat
Magazine
“Keith
interviewing couples and exploring the minefield of relationships is a stroke of
genius” Mail on Sunday
“It’s
a spoof chat show and Keith would probably dismiss it as ‘a bit of fun’.
It’s not, it’s bloody good fun and Brydon is probably the funniest man on TV
right now” Sunday Mirror
DIRECTORS
COMMENTARY
“Partridge
was brilliant, The Office was exquisite, but Rob Brydon’s new show, was in a
different league…Brydon made me laugh out loud, time after time after time.
The boy is a genius, I mean Welsh obviously. But a genius nevertheless ”
The
Sun – Jeremy Clarkson
“Hugely
enjoyable…just settle down and enjoy Brydon at his best”
Heat
Magazine
LIVE
SHOWS
“One
hell of a clever, feelgood, belly laughing show!” The List,
“First-class
entertainment” The Metro,
“Comical
Heaven…resounding success” The Evening Standard
“Gut-bustingly
funny”