Television and radio work Lloyd has performed in numerous sketches on
BBC Comedy Online including
Funtime (a
Dawson Bros. pilot),
The Proposal and
Dirty Dancing. She has performed for the
BBC Radio 4 shows
Newsjack,
My First Planet,
The Now Show,
Small Scenes and
The Guns of Adam Riches. Lloyd has appeared on television shows such as
Channel 4's
Cardinal Burns and
CBBC's
Fit and
DNN, and in films such as
Baby Cow Productions' Caravan and
Film4's Hallo Panda. She wrote and performed in her own comedy pilot for BBC Three,
The Cariad Show. In May 2014,
BBC Radio 4 aired a pilot for
The Cariad Radio Show, which was featured on the BBC Comedy of the Week podcast. Since 2014, she has been co-writing and performing in the
BBC Radio Wales sketch comedy show
Here Be Dragons. In 2014, Lloyd starred as Holly in the BBC Three comedy pilot
Vodka Diaries and as Poppy in the comedy series
Give Out Girls on
Comedy Central. In 2015, she played Dawn, a warden in a young offenders' institution in the BBC Three comedy series
Crims. In 2016, she appeared in the initial two episodes of
Walliams & Friend on BBC One. She was also a series regular, playing several semi-improvised characters on
Murder in Successville with
Tom Davis. Lloyd is a regular panellist on
QI, having appeared in 14 episodes as of April 2024. She has also appeared on
Have I Got News for You,
Would I Lie to You?,
The News Quiz and
8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. She appeared in the final series of
Peep Show as Megan. In 2020, she appeared in Sara Pascoe's comedy series
Out of Her Mind for BBC television. In March 2021, she presented the
BBC Radio 4 programme
What Have We Learnt About Grief? This programme mentioned the work of
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. From March 2024, she appeared as a member of the Wales team on
Round Britain Quiz.
Live performance Lloyd has performed in a variety of live shows since 2006, including ''The Freewheelin' Cariad Lloyd
at Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2012. In 2013, she performed in The 50 Hour Improvathon
at Hoxton Hall, and The Freewheelin' Cariad Lloyd
at Soho Theatre among others. In 2014, she performed at the Edinburgh Fringe with Louise Ford in Cariad and Louise's Character Hour''. Lloyd is a member of the improvisational comedy group
Austentatious. In 2014, the show won the
Chortle Award for Best Character, Improv or Sketch Act, and two DVDs of one of their live shows have been released by
Go Faster Stripe in 2015 and 2018. Other members of the group include
Rachel Parris, Amy Cooke-Hodgson and Joseph Morpurgo.
Writing Lloyd's book,
You Are Not Alone, was published in 2023. In a review in
The Times, the book was described as "a blackly funny, honest, thought-provoking and compassionate book that will be of comfort to all who know loss".
Podcasts , where
Griefcast won in three categories Lloyd created and hosts the podcast
Griefcast, a series of conversations about death, bereavement, and coping with the loss of a loved one. It has won several awards, including: "Best Entertainment Podcast", "Best Interview Podcast" and "Podcast of the Year" at the
British Podcast Awards and an
ARIA Award for "Podcast of the Year". Lloyd has appeared on other comedians' podcasts including ''
Pappy's Flatshare Slamdown
in 2012, Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast in 2016, Do the Right Thing'' in 2017, and Mike Wozniak's "St. Elwick's Neighbourhood Association Newsletter Podcast" as Veronica Tooze MBE, in 2021. ==Filmography==