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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. He was part of a group called The Clique by the school's headmaster: they would hang around making each other laugh, and Jones has remained a comic. He and Bean followed Adams to Cambridge, reading History and English at Emmanuel College.

While at University, Jones joined the prestigious Cambridge Footlights Club (of which he became Vice-President in 1976). He was also president of the ADC (amateur dramatics club) in his time at Cambridge.

Since University, he has appeared in numerous comedy programmes, usually with Mel Smith, including the second series of notable 1980s sketch show Not the Nine O'Clock News, alongside Smith, Rowan Atkinson and Pamela Stephenson.

He was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1984 (1983 season) for Best Comedy Performance in Charley's Aunt and in 1994 (1993 season) for Best Comedy Performance for his performance in An Absolute Turkey.

Jones was the presenter of the BBC's Restoration programme, and has done a considerable amount of fundraising work for the Hackney Empire theatre conservation project.

He starred in Russell T. Davies's drama series Mine All Mine, on ITV1.

Griff has gone on record as saying "I have no belief in god."

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