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  Griff Rhys Jones - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Griff Rhys Jones on Not The Nine O'Clock News
Griff Rhys Jones (born 16 November 1953) is a British writer and actor.
Rhys Jones was born in Cardiff, Wales, and was educated at Brentwood School, Essex, where he met Charlie Bean (Executive Director of the Bank of England) and Douglas Adams, the writer of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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 Griff Rhys Jones
Griff was part of the walk along with comedian Rory McGrath as they were both former students at Emmanuel College, which is on the walk route.
In the meantime, there is a new series of the BBC Radio 2 comedy series, The Griff Rhys Jones Show to write and record, and a new televison series called Restoration, where Griff helps the nation choose its favourite old building, in the way he gently cajoled us into choosing our favourite poem and artist.
Griff was born on the 6th November, 1953, in Cardiff.
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 Griff Rhys Jones: biography and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Griff Rhys Jones (born 6 November 1953) is the comedy partner and foil of Mel Smith Mel Smith quick summary:
Griff was educated at Brentwood School, EHandler: no quick summary.
Griff was the presenter of the BBC's[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link] Restoration Restoration (television) quick summary:
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 NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Griff Rhys Jones
Image File history File links GryffRhysJonesNTNON.jpg Summary Griff Rhys Jones on Not The Nine OClock News Licensing This image is a screenshot of a copyrighted television program or station ID. As such, the copyright for it is most likely owned by the company or corporation that produced it.
GRIFF RHYS JONES: 8 Redwall books have been written since 1986, classic tales like Watership down and the Hobbit, they are epic adventures steeped in old fashioned sentiment and set in a timeless world where good always overcomes evil.
GRIFF RHYS JONES: It was because of Brian's involvement with children that Redwall was born.
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 BBC NEWS | UK | England | Cambridgeshire | Comedian joins 1,000-strong demo
Griff Rhys Jones' son is a student at the architecture school
Mr Rhys Jones said since the targets were "arbitrary" and under review, the school should not be closed.
Mr Rhys Jones said the proposed closure was all to do with targets for research.
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 NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Mel Smith
This was followed briefly by Smith and Goody (with Bob Goody) and then the comedy sketch series Alas Smith and Jones, co-starring Griff Rhys Jones, its title being a pun on the name of the American TV series Alias Smith and Jones.
Alias Smith and Jones was a television comedy-western series on ABC from 1971 to 1973, starring Pete Duel and Ben Murphy.
In 1981, Smith and Griff Rhys Jones founded TalkBack Productions, a company which has produced many of the most significant British comedy shows of the past two decades, including Smack the Pony, Da Ali G Show, I'm Alan Partridge and Big Train.
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 Griff rhys jones - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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 Griff Rhys Jones to be restored
Griff Rhys Jones has been an integral part of life in Britain for over 300 years, and viewers of the BBC’s Restoration programme last week voted in their millions to have him restored to his original condition.
Rhys Jones was built around 1776, and before becoming a TV funnyman, worked as a waterwheel-powered cotton mill in Lower Sodbury, Kent.
We plan to install a gift shop and visitor centre in the presenter, and this will cost in excess of £3.5 million.” Having appeared on BBC television for over a hundred years, Rhys Jones is a listed celebrity, and is considered to be of historical interest.
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 Griff Rhys Jones - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
He was part of a group called The Clique by the Headmaster: they would hang around making each other laugh, and Griff has just continued doing this for the rest of his life.
Rhys Jones and Bean followed Adams to the University of Cambridge.
Since then, he has appeared in numerous comedy programmes, usually with Mel Smith, including the second series of notable 1980s Britcom Not the Nine O'Clock News, alongside Smith, Rowan Atkinson and Pamela Stephenson.
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 BookkooB : To the Baltic with Bob - Griff Rhys Jones : Compare Book Prices
(Rhys Jones pins the blame for his obsession with all things nautical on Arthur Ransome and on his late father, who made the freezing West Mercia boat park the family's home from home.) Luckily for Rhys Jones, his mate Bob is a marginally worse yachtsman.
Rhys Jones obviously has a large fan base and I expect they think anything he does is marvellous.
Griff is, whilst understated in his appreciation of the journey, obviously hugely impressed with the sailing, the places, the people, the culture and the experience.
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 Griff Rhys Jones   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
According to contactmusic.com, British comic star Griff Rhys Jones thought Grant had found his career when he wrote for the TV comedy team Smith and Jones in...
British commedian Griff Rhys Jones thought Love Actually star Grant had found his career when he wrote for TV comedy duo SMITH AND JONES in the 1980s.
He was in the original line-up for the BBC's "Not The Nine O'clock News" and appeared alongside Griff Rhys Jones in "Alas Smith and Jones.".
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 Griff Rhys Jones   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
He was part of a group called The Clique by the school's headmaster: they would hang around making each other laugh, and Griff has just continued doing this for the rest of his life.
Rhys Jones and Bean followed Adams to the Emmanuel College, Cambridge to read English.
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 Griff Rhys Jones -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Griff Rhys Jones (born 16 November 1953) is a writer and actor.
He was especially popular in the 1980s when he starred with Mel Smith in a number of comedy sketch shows on British TV.
He was born in Cardiff, Wales, and was educated at Brentwood School, Essex, where he met Charlie Bean (Executive Director of the Bank of England) and Douglas Adams, the writer of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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Griff Rhys Jones is best known for his work with the BBC, most notably for Book Worm and the comedy sketch shows Not The Nine O’Clock News and Smith and Jones.
Griff led the Hackney Empire Appeal Campaign, which raised £15 million, and led to a major programme of redevelopment and extensive restoration of the facilities, whilst preserving the original features that made it one of the most popular venues in London.
Griff has written a book called ‘To The Baltic With Bob’ about a sailing journey to Russia in a small boat published by Penguin Autumn 2003.
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 Amazon.co.uk: Wilt [1988]: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Based on the novel by Tom Sharpe, Wilt reunites the considerable comic talents of Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones in a farcical tale of a missing wife, an overzealous law enforcement officer and a blow-up doll.
The titular hero Henry Wilt (Jones) is a liberal-studies lecturer condemned to teaching students on day-release from the local pie factory.
Jones is superb as the henpecked husband and Smith pulls of a fantastically clichéd, but hugely entertaining PC plod.
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 Greg Graffin + Griff Rhys-Jones
It was also on this date, November 6, 1953, that British comedian Griff Rhys-Jones was born in Cardiff, Wales.
I believe that you can take on a moral stance — and plenty of people do — without reference to, as it were, a series of precepts.
It was Griff Rhys-Jones who said, as part of a response to a reader's question, published in the Independent (a UK newspaper), on 10 April 1999, "I have no belief in god."
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 RSA - News - Press Release
Griff Rhys Jones planted one of the many thousands of trees that will go into the ground during this UK-wide celebration of trees and woods.
Because trees are such a vital part of our heritage, yet Britain is still one of the least-wooded countries in Europe, The Tree Council is challenging everyone to follow the lead of Griff Rhys Jones and Celia Imrie and plant trees for future generations to enjoy.
Planted properly and given a few minutes of annual care in their early years, young trees are well set to grow into the heritage trees of tomorrow — green monuments of great historical or cultural significance.
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He will shortly be seen starring in Russell T. Davies' drama series Mine All Mine, due to be screened on ITV1 in autumn 2004.
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 Talkback: Griff Rhys Jones   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
I was surprised that Griff chose me as his favourite teacher because I only taught him for two years.
I didn't know he was going to become a comedian, but he'd always had a very good sense of humour and could make people laugh.
Interviews by editors: Erica Rutherford, 14, and Clency Lebrasse, 15, and reporters Mehrak Golestan, 12, Natasha Asare, 13, Gillian Antwi-Bosiako, 9, and Abeyna Jones, 12.
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 Sky Showbiz - Celebs Fighting For Wildlife
Griff Rhys Jones and presenter Charlotte Uhlenbroek will also feature in Final Chance to Save, set for broadcast on Sky One this September.
They are hunted for their precious tusks which sell for dagger handles in the Yemen, or for Chinese medical ingredients.
Griff assists the Tusk Trust and Save the Rhino and enlists a reformed poacher to help him track down some of the rhinos.
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 Rhys Jones, Griff - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Rhys Jones, Griff   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Welsh-born comedian and comic actor who has enjoyed a long and successful television comedy partnership with Mel Smith.
Television series include Alas Smith and Jones (1984), The World According to Smith and Jones (1987), Porterhouse Blue (1987), and Smith and Jones in Small Doses (1989).
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
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 Alas Smith And Jones (Summary/Cast)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Griff Rhys Jones, who had appeared in the Footlights Review at Cambridge University, was working as a BBC radio producer when Not the Nine O'Clock News first aired.
After Not the Nine O'Clock News ended, Smith and Jones decided to continue their partnership and were offered a series by the BBC.
Alas Smith And Jones is probably best remembered for the "head to head" sequences, where a pompous "know it all" (Mel Smith) pontificates about a topical subject while his rather dim friend (Griff Rhys Jones) tries, usually unsuccessfully, to make sense of what's being said.
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 Not The Nine O Clock News - Nostalgia Central   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
At the end of the first series it was agreed that Chris Langham didn't quite fit in with the rest of the team and he was replaced by Griff Rhys-Jones who had played some of the extra parts in the first series.
Pamela Stephenson had discovered an unexpected talent for mimicry and her impressions of the female newsreaders of the day proved to be a highlight of the show.
Although it only ran for 27 episodes, the intensity and density of each show (some containing as many as thirty sketches) meant they had used a lot of material and covered a lot of ground.
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Griff Rhys Jones takes us on a poetic tour of the witty, the non-sensical and the plain laugh-out-loud funny.
Griff Rhys Jones says: "Comic poems, I vow, are a great popular means of expression.
Achieving a top world ranking in under two years, Jones can perform stunts of such power and precision as to be almost unbelievable.
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Leary's hard man image introduced an ironic side to Holsten Pils, while highlighting the key fact that it is brewed using only natural ingredients.
Griff Rhys-Jones in the fl and white Old Movies commercials (1983-88).
One of the most famous and well-loved ads of the 80s featured fl and white remakes of famous movie stars and gave rise to the much loved expression "This could be your lucky day."
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 Buy Wilt on DVD @ Gameplanet Store NZ
Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith, Alison Steadman, Diana Quick, Roger Lloyd Pack
British comedians Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones star in this farcical comedy set in Norwich and based on the novel by Tom Sharpe.
Henry Wilt (Jones) is a local teacher who spends his evenings fantasising about murdering his domineering wife (Alison Steadman).
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