In Conversation with Rob Brydon

11 August 10

In a live conversation at Nottingham’s Broadway cinema, Rob Brydon entertained the Screenlit Festival audience with his repertoire of impressions and comical anecdotes from his career so far.

Watch clips chosen by Rob Brydon to demonstrate his acting ‘range’.
Learn about the development processes behind some of Brydon’s best known work.
Discover how he first broke into the TV industry and watch his latest comedy creations.

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Best known for his roles in numerous TV comedies including Human Remains, Marion and Geoff, I'm Alan Partridge and Gavin and Stacey, Rob Brydon is also an enviably successful writer, presenter and producer. On 27 April 2010, he joined Briony Hanson in Nottingham for a live BAFTA interview as part of the Screenlit Festival of Film, TV and Writing.

Interspersed with clips from some of his best work, Brydon explains how he carved out a succesful acting career and debates the complexities of television comedy performance. With the comic delivery for which he is renowned he goes on to recount tales of his career - from his never-completed two years at drama school, to a stint working in radio and his eventual ‘lucky break’ into the TV industry.

The comedian also demonstrates his talent for impressions as he introduces the audience to a range of absurd characters including Tony Casino, a camp Tom Jones wannabe and DJ Barry Shoulder, a radio DJ who offers listeners a ‘shoulder’ to cry on in his late night confession sessions.

In School I was the funny one in the class who did impressions and wanted to make people laugh...I fit into that cliché very snugly indeed.

More About Rob Brydon:

Rob Brydon was born in Swansea, South Wales and studied acting at The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama before joining BBC Wales as a radio and television presenter. Moving to London in the early '90s he worked as a voice over artist and made occasional appearances on television.

He first came to the public's attention in 2000 with the shows Marion and Geoff and Human Remains. In recent years, Rob Brydon has become synonymous with his hugely popular Gavin & Stacey character, Uncle Bryn.

In May 2010, Brydon received the Siân Phillips Award at the BAFTA Cymru Awards ceremony.

Watch Rob Brydon recieve the award from opera singer Bryn Terfel Jones CBE

This interview was run by BAFTA as part of the series of events at Screenlit Festival of Film, TV and Writing.