Rob Brydon

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Rob Brydon (born Robert Jones, May 3, 1965, Port Talbot) is a Welsh actor, comedian and impersonator most famous for his role as Keith Barret in the BBC comedy Marion and Geoff and The Keith Barret Show.

Rob's career began with radio. His early broadcasts included DJing on BBC Radio Wales, and he was the main presenter of Rave, one of BBC Radio Five's youth magazine and music programmes, between 1992 and 1994. Though he stayed with radio as a comedy performer on BBC Radio Five Live's The Treatment, he was initially known mainly as a voice artist. He provided several voices for the Discworld computer games and continuity announcements for BBC1. In the early 1990s he spent a brief stint presenting for the Home Shopping Network, and began to find small roles in several successful films and television series. He finally made his mark in television comedy in 2000 with Julia Davis when the pair wrote and starred in Human Remains for the BBC.

Rob is famous for bizarre or unsettling black comedy, and has worked with a number of comedians and actors with a similar taste, perhaps most notably Steve Coogan.

He is also known for his voice-over work on numerous television advertising campaigns, including those for Renault, Tango, The Times, Tesco, Abbey National, McDonald's, Toilet Duck, Cahoot, Mint Card, Pot Noodle, Crunchy Nut Cornflakes and The Observer. Possibly most notably, he is also the voice of the Andrex Puppy.

In 2003, he was listed by The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy.

In 2006, he appeared on the BBC Radio 4 comedy panel game I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, in which he showed off an unusually good singing voice (especially by the programme's standards), during a rendition of Tom Jones's Delilah in the Pick-up Song round, where his remarkably accurate performance earned him one of the longest rounds of applause in the show's considerable history.

He has also presented an episode of Have I Got News for You.

According to Paul Ross on LBC 97.3 on 7th October, Rob married the day before (6th October 2006).