39 Facts About Ross Noble

Ross Markham Noble was born on 6 June 1976 and is an English stand-up comedian and actor.

Ross Noble has released DVDs of several of his tours.

In 2012, Ross Noble made his film debut in the fantasy comedy horror movie Stitches.

Ross Noble was born in 1976 in Newcastle upon Tyne and brought up in Cramlington, Northumberland.

Ross Noble's stand-up routine is a largely improvised and surreal performance with a stream of consciousness delivery.

Ross Noble's style is recognised as spontaneous, due to his unpredictable performance style, interruptions from hecklers or because he has drifted off into another surreal tangent.

Ross Noble had a brief stint as a street juggler with a friend, and aspired to join a circus.

Ross Noble joined a clown troupe and sold balloons as a stilt-walker, before deciding to become a comedian after winning tickets to a comedy show.

Ross Noble has been performing stand-up since the dyslexia diagnosis, and appeared in his local comedy club at the age of 15, despite licensing laws that prohibited him working there and forced him to leave through the kitchen.

Ross Noble studied performing arts at Newcastle College, after he told his careers adviser at school he wanted to be a comedian.

Ross Noble later stated that this had no effect on his stand-up ability, as he believes that the information taught is not important in being a good performer.

Since starting as a stand-up comedian, Ross Noble has won many awards, including a Time Out award winner in 2000 for his Edinburgh Fringe Festival show Chickenmaster, and a Perrier Award nomination in 1999 for another Edinburgh show Laser Boy.

Ross Noble has since achieved great popularity in both the UK and Australia, where he has toured extensively every year since 2001.

Ross Noble's 2003 show Unrealtime was the best-selling show at the Edinburgh Fringe, before transferring to London's West End for a monthlong season at the Garrick Theatre where it played to packed houses.

Ross Noble performed his shows over the following weeks with his arm in a sling.

Ross Noble performed at the 2008 Latitude Festival and rounded off his set by leading everyone in the tent in a huge conga line to a vegan food stand so they could all ask for pies and sausage rolls.

In 2012, Ross Noble made his film debut in the fantasy comedy horror movie Stitches playing the titular character, an undead birthday clown out for revenge.

Ross Noble had not done any acting work on TV until the summer of 2013 when he appeared opposite Ian Smith as a gay lover in the Australian TV series "It's a date", or radio, as he prefers stand-up for giving him the freedom to say what he wants without being influenced by a script or crew.

Ross Noble has made 16 appearances, the highest number of appearances of any guest, on BBC One's Have I Got News for You including the first show guest presented by Paul Merton.

Ross Noble was Paul Merton's guest on Room 101, where he wanted to consign to history the likes of Craig David, cartoon animals who wear clothes, people who look like cats, clipboards and Christian rock music.

Ross Noble makes regular contributions to BBC Radio 4's Just a Minute and has appeared on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue and presented 4 At The Store.

In July 2011, Ross Noble appeared in the second episode of the 17th series of Top Gear.

Ross Noble did a lap around the Top Gear track in 1.43.5, beating Tom Cruise and placing him in second place behind John Bishop.

Besides making various guest appearances, Ross Noble has been the host of an Australian radio show, and the subject of two BBC radio series.

Noble's worldwide travels as a stand-up were the subject of his own BBC Radio 4 series Ross Noble Goes Global, produced by Danny Wallace.

In January 2005, Noble joined Australian comedian Terri Psiakis in co-hosting Ross and Terri, the weekday lunch shift on national radio station Triple J Following on from Ross Noble Goes Global, Radio 4 broadcast a new series called Ross Noble On.

In October 2020, Ross Noble was announced as a competing celebrity contestant on the fifth season of The Celebrity Apprentice Australia in 2021.

Ross Noble finished as the runner-up of the series, raising over $100,000 for his charity, the Australian Red Cross - Disaster Response and Recovery Fund.

Ross Noble made his musical theatre debut as Franz Liebkind in the 2015 UK tour of Mel Brooks' The Producers from May to July 2015.

Ross Noble received a WhatsOnStage Award for his performance and was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical.

Ross Noble lived on a farm in St Andrews, a semi-rural town on the northern outskirts of Melbourne, Australia, until it was destroyed by 2009 Victorian bushfires along with all his material possessions.

Ross Noble has created an off-road track in the paddock at his home, and has a number of vehicles to use on it, including an FV433 Abbot SPG self-propelled gun.

Ross Noble attended several track days in 2011, including Brands Hatch on the GP circuit as a guest of MSV aboard his Triumph Daytona 675R.

Ross Noble has attended their fundraising event Day of Champions on a number of occasions, most recently at Silverstone in 2010.

Ross Noble voiced the Riders for Health BBC Radio 4 appeal aired just before Christmas 2010.

In May 2011, to celebrate his 20th anniversary of stand-up, Ross Noble teamed up with Triumph Motorcycles which were celebrating a milestone, having just produced their 500,000th bike and did the "Sit Down" tour.

In July 2011, Ross Noble competed in the Red Bull Romaniacs, which is "one of the toughest extreme motorcycle events on the planet".

Several recorded performances of Ross Noble are available on DVD, notable for the large number of extras that appear on them.

Ross Noble's recorded shows are mostly dominated by Ross Noble with just a few moments of audience participation.