Lloyd Langford

Lloyd Langford (born 6 August 1983) is from Port Talbot, south Wales, and is a comedian, comedy writer and voice artist.[2][3]

Lloyd Langford
Lloyd Langford hosting Bright Club London in November 2011
Born (1983-08-06) 6 August 1983[1]
Bristol
OccupationComedian, comedy writer
Websitehttp://www.lloydlangford.com

Career

Langford was a regular panellist on Ask Rhod Gilbert and has written additional material for TV shows Live at the Apollo, Never Mind the Buzzcocks and The King is Dead. He has provided audience warm-up on QI[4] and been a contributor on Rhod Gilbert's Work Experience. He has appeared as a guest on several comedy and panel shows, including Russell Howard's Good News, The News Quiz, The Now Show, 8 Out of 10 Cats, QI and The Dog Ate My Homework"Have You Been Paying Attention" (TV2 New Zealand), and has written for a few other shows.[5]

In August 2010 Langford made the move to television when the BBC commissioned eight episodes of Ask Rhod Gilbert following a successful pilot earlier in 2010. The show featured Rhod Gilbert, Greg Davies and Langford answering random trivia questions, such as 'Who would win in a race, Usain Bolt or a grizzly bear?', posed by the public and celebrities, with additional celebrity guests on the panel.[6] The show ran for two series.[7]

Langford had been a guest comedian on The Jon Richardson Show. He co-hosted the radio show Rhod Gilbert's Bulging Barrel of Laughs and played Rhod Gilbert's brother on pilot sitcom Rhod Gilbert's Leaving Llanbobl. He sometimes co-hosts Gilbert's weekly show on BBC Radio Wales. Langford has appeared several times on the BBC Radio comedy panel The Unbelievable Truth and is a co-writer and performer on the BBC Radio Wales sketch show Here Be Dragons;[8] the show won the 2014 Sony Award - Bronze for Best Comedy.[9] He has written jokes for Gilbert, Frankie Boyle and Simon Amstell.[10]

Langford occasionally tours as part of comedy collective "GIT" with Dan Atkinson and Jon Richardson[11] and his first solo tour was titled 'Rare Bit', a reference to his Welsh heritage. He has performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe multiple times.[2]

In October 2012, along with 463 other players, Langford took part in BBC Radio 5 Live's attempt to set a new Guinness World Record for the ‘most players in a continuous 5 a side exhibition match’. This was for BBC Children in Need along with former footballer and TV pundit Robbie Savage and BBC Radio 5 Live travel reporter Lindsey Chapman.[12][13]

In the early months of 2019, Langford toured his most recent Edinburgh show, Why the Long Face?, in Australia and New Zealand.[14]

Personal life

Langford is originally from Baglan, Neath Port Talbot. He currently lives in London.[1][15][16][17]

Langford studied film and television at the University of Warwick which he chose as film interested him, he wanted to live somewhere new and did not want to lock himself into a vocation so early on.[18] He was regularly MC at Warwick Comedy's weekly Sunday night stand-up show.

Awards
YearAwardCategoryResult
2004Chortle Student Comedian of the Year-Won
2008Chortle AwardsBreakthrough actNominated
2017 Winner of Celebrity Mastermind Winner
gollark: I don't use EIO now because I disagree with the changes it made in the 1.12 update.
gollark: Ferroboron can't be made in an induction smelter, oddly.
gollark: I don't want tiny compact-machine-fitting things (well, I kind of do, but separate to giant, awe-inspiring ones incorporating fusion plasma injectors of death, hopefully), I want giant ones requiring huge amounts of infrastructure to support it, with cool visual effects, massive (actually fitting, you know, a *fusion* reactor) power output (ideally via steam turbines), that sort of thing.
gollark: Also, I hope the new fusion reactors take inspiration from ReactorCraft.
gollark: The mekanism ones are a bit crazy. If you want oxygen, feeding the separator RF from its own hydrogen run through a gas-burning generator, *it works fine*.

References
  1. Abbie Wightwick (2 October 2010). "Welsh funnyman Rhod Gilbert goes on tour with flatmate". Wales online.
  2. "Here Be Dragons: Meet the dragons from the den of new comedy talent". Wales Online. 25 November 2013.
  3. "Best of the Ed Fest featuring Lloyd Langford, Fin Taylor and Jimmy McGhie". Entertainment Hive.
  4. Lloyd Langford on IMDb
  5. "CV". Lloyd Langford. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
  6. Hot Rhod... – Chortle.co.uk
  7. "Rhod Gilbert: Comedy panel shows are 'brutal'". 26 February 2013.
  8. "Here be dragons". Retrieved 20 February 2016.
  9. "2014 RADIO ACADEMY AWARDS WINNERS ANNOUNCED". Radio Academy Awards. 12 May 2014. Archived from the original on 10 June 2015.
  10. "Laughs aplenty in Rhyl with Lloyd Langford". North Wales Pioneer. 22 November 2012.
  11. "Ten Big Questions… Lloyd Langford". Time Out. 15 April 2010.
  12. Lindsey Chapman (12 October 2012). "BBC Radio 5 live-a-side NEW Guinness World Record!". lindseychapman.co.uk. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 11 November 2016.
  13. Laugh Out Loud. "Lloyd Langford". lolcomedyclubs.co.uk.
  14. "Melbourne International Comedy Festival comedian Q&A: Lloyd Langford, Why The Big Face?". Australia Herald Sun. 28 March 2019.
  15. Mark Rees (13 March 2013). "Interview: Port Talbot funnyman Lloyd Langford". South Wales Evening Post. Archived from the original on 23 April 2014. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
  16. "Lloyd Langford interview: "I felt like a cut-price Samuel Pepys"". The Big Issue. 28 August 2014.
  17. "Flatmate lifestyle working out well for Lloyd Langford and Rhod Gilbert". North Wales Live. 30 November 2012.
  18. "Seven Questions With… Lloyd Langford". The Big Issue. 28 August 2014.
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