Ross Noble

Ross Noble is a British stand-up comedian, born in Cramlington, England.

Noble has been performing stand-up since appearing in his local comedy club at the age of 15, despite licensing laws that prohibited him working there. Coming from Cramlington, a new town, "the ultimate in dullness" helped him with career, he said. "There was nothing to do so I used my imagination a lot, otherwise I would have started climbing the wall."

Noble has become known as a exciting and genuinely original performer and has received huge critical acclaim. His distincitve stand up routine often ends up as a mostly improvised and surreal performance based on informal conversation with the audience. He is a former Perrier Award nominee and a Time Out award winner for best live stand-up and has won a many other prestigious awards and nominations.

Recently, Ross has completed another sell-out run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with his new show Noodlemeister. His 2003 show Unrealtime was the official best-selling show at the Fringe, before transferring to London's West End for a month long season at The Garrick Theatre where it played to packed houses.

Despite not being overly keen on appearing on TV, recent appearances include (in Australia) Channel Ten's Rove and The Panel, ABC's The Glasshouse, and (in the UK) on BBC's Johnny Vaughan Tonight, and Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. Ross has also recently made three appearances on BBC 1's Have I Got News for You and makes regular contributions to BBC Radio 4's Just a Minute.

Ross' worldwide travels as a stand-up are the subject of his own BBC Radio 4 series Ross Noble Goes Global, produced by Danny Wallace. He professes a pathological hatred of Craig David.