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Rob’s career has seen him encompass pretty much everything from presenting Channel 4’s The Friday Night Project, Starring alongside David Mitchell in BBC’s Upstart Crow, 8 out of 10 Cats CH4, Spoons Ch4, Dave’s One Night Stand and countless other TV and radio shows, to appearing the West End. Rob’s a one man comedy whirlwind who drags the audience into his craftily spun tall tales with bucketfuls of manic energy, first class stage craft, eerily convincing characterisations and a barrage of hilarious one liners. He also has a hit podcast with Tom Wrigglesworth called ‘The Unlikely Weightlifters Podcast’
PRAISE FOR ROB:
“He’s a man with genuinely funny bones” SUNDAY TIMES
★★★★★ “Comedy guaranteed to lighten even the darkest of moods… always a step ahead of your expectations…” EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS
★★★★★ “Bursting with originality, energy and enthusiasm, Rob Rouse is a delirious but hilarious man” THE LIST
★★★★★ “Frankly brilliant” SUCHSMALLPORTIONS.COM
★★★★★“Hilarious, well-performed and incredibly endearing” PUBLIC REVIEWS
★★★★ “Just go and see it” THE SUNDAY TIMES
★★★★ “Belly Laugh funny” THE HERALD
★★★★ “Brilliant, uplifting fun” CHORTLE
★★★★ “Hilarious” THE ARTS DESK
★★★★ “Eye-wateringly hilarious” HAIRLINE
★★★★ “Left the audience in a giggling slobbering heap” EDINBURGH FESTIVAL MAGAZINE
“The tears of laughter came in floods… a sustained piece of observational storytelling which just peaked and peaked… he is prepared to go to the bleakest and most uncomfortable places….the real reason is simply that he is a great storyteller, of the kind who is able to blur the boundaries between fact and fiction to get at the truths of life and death which lie behind their tale.” THE SCOTSMAN
“You want to hug his brain for coming up with this stuff, even as you want to wash his mouth out with soap for saying it.” THE HERALD
twitter @robrouse – insta/facebook @robrousecomedian
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