Griffith Rhys Jones OBE (born 16 November 1953) is a Welsh actor, comedian, writer and television presenter.

From 2008 to 2018, Jones presented the television bloopers show It'll Be Alright on the Night for ITV, having replaced Denis Norden and being succeeded in 2018 by David Walliams.

[3] Jones attended Conifers Primary School in Midhurst, West Sussex, before his family moved to Epping, Essex.

In his autobiography, Semi-Detached, he describes how he was charged with helping to look after 600 Canadian schoolgirls, followed by a similar number of younger Scottish schoolchildren, and refers to the experience as being like "St Trinian's at sea".

[6][7] After Cambridge, Rhys Jones then joined BBC Radio Light Entertainment as a trainee producer,[1] with his responsibilities including the satirical show Week Ending and Brain of Britain.

Rhys Jones says that the reason he got the part was not due to his appearance in the initial shows, or his talent, but because producer John Lloyd was dating his sister at the time.

After the first series, the two men appeared in Mike Hodges' science fiction comedy movie Morons from Outer Space.

[11] In 1981, Rhys Jones along with Mel Smith founded Talkback, a production company which produced many British comedy series, including Smack the Pony, Da Ali G Show, I'm Alan Partridge, They Think It's All Over, QI and Big Train.

[13] In May 2014, Rhys Jones was executive producer on his production company's debut BBC drama A Poet in New York[2] starring Tom Hollander as Dylan Thomas.

[2] Since 2006, Rhys Jones has appeared in the BBC's Three Men in a Boat series, alongside Dara Ó Briain and Rory McGrath.

Rhys Jones visited his mother's home town in Ferndale, Rhondda Cynon Taf for an episode of the BBC One series Who Do You Think You Are?, broadcast on 20 September 2007.

In the episode, he detailed early memories and stories of his grandparents' fruit and vegetable shop on the high street and his mother's childhood concert performances at Trerhondda Chapel.

[16] Rhys Jones has created and presented programmes about Arthur Ransome,[18] Thomas Hardy,[19] John Betjeman[20] and Rudyard Kipling.

On 29 April 2012,[16] Rhys Jones guest presented an episode of Perspectives on ITV, his chosen subject being The Wind in the Willows.

[31] In August 2022, Rhys Jones presented Griff's Canadian Adventure a new 6-part series for Channel 4, where he travelled across Canada from Newfoundland to British Columbia.

[37] Rhys Jones provided the voice-over for Brentwood School's 450th anniversary DVD, reading a script written by fellow Old Brentwoodian Jonathan Ruffle.

[16] In June 2008, it was announced that Rhys Jones was to become the President of Civic Voice, the nationwide charity that campaigns for better places in the built and green environment.

[42] In August 2014, Rhys Jones was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September's referendum on that issue.

[44][45] Rhys Jones owned Undina, the 45-foot (14 m), fifty-year-old wooden sailing yacht which was used in Three Men in Another Boat; he spent £500,000 on her restoration and in 2013 stated she was for sale for £195,000, "probably less".

[7] Rhys Jones was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to the National Civic Society Movement, charity and entertainment.