Chris Gilbert

Stand up comic, Writer, Presenter

"Chris Gilbert is a classy operator - a keen, confident performer with his best material as sharp as his suits.

He might not have been around all that long, but he's certainly among the top bracket of his peers, with a highly-polished 20 minutes already under his belt.

His strength comes from being technically assured, ploughing into his subjects with a near-irresistible force and intelligently structuring his routines so solidly that they become bombproof.

His best sections are almost masterclasses in extracting every last drop of humour from a gag, as he rants passionately about, say, Oil of Olay or the perils of spinach soup.

They are seemingly mundane subjects but it's almost universally pulled off with panache, a keen observational eye, and an attention to detail that's hard to fault." - Steve Bennett, Chortle, 2003

Live work
Performs and runs three weekly 100+West End clubs - Big Night Out, Big Night Out Soho and Big Night Out at The Empire. Also performs at Jongleurs, The Comedy Store, The Banana, Downstairs At The King's Head, Komedia etc

Other Reviews / Press
"Brilliant compere" - Time Out 2003
"Very funny" - Julia Chamberlain, Jongleurs 2002
"Incredibly funny" - Ella Kenyon, BBC London Live 2002
"Very strong material" - Pete Grahame, Downstairs at Kings Head, 2001
"Hot stuff!" - Ashley Grossman, Evening Standard

Competitions/television/radio
Digiclip TV -(20 minutes of sketch work accepted for broadcast 2003)
NOW/SKY -Co-Presented live 'Rubdown' with CBBC's Jake Humphrey.
Radio Asia - Weekly sketch show
Takeover TV -(15 minutes of sketch work accepted for broadcast 2002)
Take the Mic - Winner. ITV, broadcast October 2001
Semi finalist BBC Stand up - August 2001
Finalist BBC sketch awards - August 2001
Young, gifted and broke - (ITV, Feb. 2000) - Character act
Young, gifted and broke - (ITV, 1999) - Sketches
Hooch commercials - Channel 5 (1998)

Other stuff
Co-runs ZOO42 productions which develops and produces comedy content for a number of terrestrial, internet and ambient media clients,