Welsh standup Rhod Gilbert has been awarded the BBC Three New Comedy Award.  Gilbert beat more than 600 of the UK's brightest up-and-coming comics to take the award, which netted him a prize of £2,000 (possibly in used fivers, but possibly not, at this time we just don't know).

Gilbert recieved great acclaim at the recent York Comedy Festival, which included the Editor of Funny.co.uk on its judging pannel, and we know good standup when we see it (otherwise we would be called  NotVeryFunny.co.uk, or RubberKettle.com or something).

Runners up, each receiving £1,000 included Greg Cook and Steve Hall.