Rhod Gilbert (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rhodri "Rhod" Gilbert (born 18 October 1968 in Carmarthen), is a Welsh comedian who was nominated in 2005 for the Perrier Best Newcomer Award. In 2008, he was nominated for the main if.comedy (as the Edinburgh Comedy Awards were then branded). He appears on television and radio panel shows, has performed stand-up on the Royal Variety Performance, and hosts a weekly show on BBC Radio Wales. Gilbert was born in Carmarthen, Wales in 1968 and studied languages at Exeter University. For the first three weeks, such was his painful shyness that Gilbert was unable to eat with other students in the canteen or even make friends with the student in the next room.