Rufus Hound looks back: ‘By the time I started to do standup, I realised I’d been training for it my entire life’

The actor and comedian on using humour as his cheat code, his internal monologue and the teacher to whom he owes everything Born in Essex in 1979, Rufus Hound is a comedian, actor and broadcaster. He left his job in PR in 2000 to work full-time as a comedian, first in standup and then on TV. A panel show regular, including Mock the Week and Celebrity Juice, he has also built a substantial stage career, with roles in West End productions such as Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Wind in the Willows...

By Harriet Gibsone