You’d think Rhod Gilbert would be a happy man.
He is fast becoming one of the UK’s top stand-up comedians, has enjoyed huge success touring the country in the past 12 months, has a host of TV appearances to his name, and is now back where he belongs on stage playing to sell out audiences across Britain.
But from watching his latest show titled Rhod Gilbert & The Cat That Looked Like Nicholas Lyndhurst – it turns out Rhod is one angry, angry Welshman.
Almost everything seems to irritate him - from washing machine doors to smoothies.
And while the starting point for almost all the anecdotes he told during his near two hour show at Shrewsbury’s Theatre Severn last weekend members of the audience could relate to – it was the way he continued on the same thread desperately searching for answers to some of life’s more mundane questions while getting more and more wound up – that left the crowd in stitches.
He starts, perhaps predictably, with some witty Welsh based banter, before he brought the locals onside with a tirade of abuse directed at Wrexham – and then it was onto the main event.
Rhod takes you on trip of the last 12 months in his life. During that time he’s lost his girlfriend after a row over stopwatches outside a Cardiff McDonalds, he’s been kicked out of his flat for ‘rescuing’ fridges and vacuum cleaners from a department store and he’s been sent on anger management courses against his will by his agent.
Never has such a deeply depressing journey left me smiling so much.
- Rhod Gilbert and the Award-winning mince pie, is available to own on DVD from Monday, November 16, courtesy of 4DVD.
Alex James
