Editing Rob Brydon (section)

== Early life and education ==
Brydon was born on 3 May 1965 in [[Baglan, Neath Port Talbot|Baglan]], [[Glamorgan]].<ref name="bbc bio">{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/arts/sites/rob-brydon/ |title=Rob Brydon |access-date=3 December 2010 |year=2010 |publisher=[[BBC Cymru Wales]]}}</ref><ref name="bbc Lawson">{{cite web|url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015mt6b |title=Mark Lawson talks to ... Rob Brydon |access-date=11 May 2013 |date=6 October 2011 |publisher=[[BBC Four]]}}</ref> His mother, Joy Jones (née Brydon), was a school teacher, and his father, Howard Jones, was a [[car dealer]]. He grew up in Baglan, with his younger brother Peter (born 1973).<ref name="askrob"/>

Brydon was educated at two [[Private schools in the United Kingdom|private school]]s: St. John's School in [[Porthcawl]], which [[Eddie Izzard]] also attended, and [[Dumbarton House School]] in Swansea until the age of 14. This was followed by [[Porthcawl Comprehensive School]], where he met [[Ruth Jones]] (with whom he later worked in ''[[Gavin & Stacey]]'') and became a member of the school's youth theatre group. While at Dumbarton, he once stole the lunch money of fellow pupil [[Catherine Zeta-Jones]] (which he admitted while participating in a series 4 episode of ''Would I Lie To You?'').<ref name="lie"/>

Brydon has said that his primary childhood influences in comedy were [[Barry Humphries]], [[Frankie Howerd]] and [[Woody Allen]]. He has also said that he used to memorise entire sketches by [[Peter Cook]], [[Dudley Moore]] and [[Peter Sellers]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Quark|title=Quark interviews Rob Brydon|date=28 April 2014|url=http://quarkonline.wordpress.com/2014/04/28/quark-interviews-rob-brydon/|publisher=Quark|access-date=5 May 2014}}</ref><ref name="quark"/>