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Dara O Briain

General Info

  • Genre:

    Stand-Up / Musical Comedy / Veterans/Legends

  • TV Shows

    The stuff at the front of my cv:

    Mock the Week - Presenter, BBC2
    The Panel (Ireland) - Presenter and Producer RTE 2
    Have I Got News For You - Guest Presenter, BBC1
    Three Men In A Boat, BBC2
    Jack Dee Live at the Apollo - Performer, BBC1
    Turn Back Time - Presenter, BBC2

    And if I had space i might mention:

    The Meteor Ireland Music Awards 2003 and 2004 - Presenter, RTE
    Live Floor Show - Presenter, BBC2
    The Last Laugh - Presenter, BBC3

    Let's not forget my dusty forgotten past in RTE:

    Echo Island - Presenter
    Don't Feed The Gondolas - Team captain
    It's a Family Affair - Presenter
    Buried Alive - Presenter


    And sample, assorted guest appearances in Britain:

    Room 101 - Guest
    QI - Guest
    Parkinson - Guest
    Friday Night With Jonathan Ross - Guest
    Richard and Judy - Guest
    Never Mind The Buzzcocks
    Today With Des and Mel - Guest
    28 Acts in 28 Minutes - Performer
    The World Stands Up - Performer

    Dara O Briain's Tough Gig, ITV1 Tuesday 19th June 2007


  • Films

    QI Christmas special –BBC2 December 22 2006 – Part 2



    QI Christmas special –BBC2 December 22 2006 Part 3

  • Albums

    The Panel interviews Eanna Ni Lamhna, wildlife expert and better talker than any of us....RTE, Oct 2006

  • Website

    Dara's agents' website is offthekerb.co.uk

  • Bio

    Dara O'Briain is a stand-up comedian, and television presenter, popularly known in the UK for Hosting BBC 2's Mock the Week, and in Ireland for hosting RTE 2's the Panel. He is one the few performers to host succcesful comedy shows in both the UK and his native Ireland at the same time. He started his career in television as a children's presenter on RTÉ whilst performing his first stand-up gigs on the Irish comedy circuit, after studying at University College, Dublin, where he did a degree in Mathematical Physics. He spent three years as a presenter on the bilingual (Irish and English) children's programme Echo Island but came to prominence as a team captain on the topical panel show Don't Feed The Gondolas (1998-2000). He left the show midway through its fifth season in order to perform at the Adelaide and Melbourne comedy festivals. Dara later co-founded the televison production company Happy Endings Productions, whose most famous show in Ireland is The Panel (2003-onwards). The show has become one of the most talked about shows in Ireland and was twice nominated for the Best Entertainment show IFTA (Irish Film and Televison Award). His big break in UK television came in 2003 when he became host of BBC2's Live Floor Show. This was led to an appearance as guest and, ultimately, four appearances as guest host of the popular news quiz, Have I Got News For You. By this stage he had moved to the UK and was working on the British circuit full-time. He sold out the entire run in Edinburgh in 2002, a feat he was to repeat for the next three years. By 2005, he was the biggest selling solo stand-up comedy show on the Edinburgh Fringe. He has just finished hosting the third series of the comedy panel game Mock the Week on BBC television, and other notable televison work includes two documentaries re-creating the legendary British comedy novel "Three Men in a Boat", where he rowed down the Thames with Griff Rhys Jones and Rory McGrath, also for the BBC and the comedy interview programme "Turn Back Time". In 2006, he conducted his third and largest national tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland. This included 66 shows across the UK as well as 9 nights sold out in Dublin. His second night in The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London was recorded for his first live DVD, released on November 13 2006.

Blurbs

About me:

Dara's second live DVD, "Dara O Briain Talks Funny: Live In London" will be released in November. Available for pre-order now! Dara's first DVD, "Dara O'Briain: Live at the Theatre Royal" was released on November 2006, and is available by clicking the picture below:

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Who I'd like to meet:

Details

  • Status: Married
  • Hometown: London
  • Orientation: Straight
  • Height: 6' 4"
  • Ethnicity: White / Caucasian
  • Zodiac Sign: Aquarius
  • Occupation: Television presenter/comedian/stand-up comedian

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