Dara O Briain Bio | Wiki
Dara O Briain is a well-known Irish comedian and television presenter based in the United Kingdom. He is notable for performing stand-up comedy shows all over the globe and for hosting topical panel shows including Mock the Week, The Panel, and The Apprentice: You’re Fired!. For his work on Mock the Week, Dara was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance in 2012.
Dara’s TV work also includes starring in and writing television comedy and documentary series. Dara has also been a newspaper columnist, with pieces published in national papers in both Britain and Ireland. Additionally, Dara has written books for both adults and children. Dara’s first children’s book Beyond the Sky became nominated for a Blue Peter Book of the Year Award in 2017.
In 2009, the Irish Independent described Dara as “Terry Wogan’s heir apparent as Britain’s ‘favorite Irishman'” and in 2010, he was voted the 16th greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4’s 100 Greatest Stand-Ups. In September 2021 Dara reported a new show, named “So… Where Were We?”, with a tour starting in November 2021. Because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, a portion of the tour in Ireland that was originally planned for January 2022 was pushed back to March through June 2022.
Dara O Briain Age
Dara was born on February 4, 1972, in Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland. He is 51 years old. Dara celebrates his birthday on February 4, every year.
Dara O Briain Height
He is a man of above-average stature. Dara stands at a height of 5 ft 10 in (Approx. 1.75 m).
Dara O Briain Family
He was born in Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland, and adopted into what he described as “a stable home” where he enjoyed a happy childhood with his “supportive” parents. His birth mother is an Irishwoman named Philomena Lee. Since Dara has since met his birth mother, as well as various biological siblings. Due to Covid-19 travel restrictions, Dara has yet to meet the entire family.
Dara O Briain Wife
Dara is married to his wife Susan Ó Briain a surgeon. The pair married in 2006. The couple resides in West London with their three children, one daughter (born in 2008) and two sons (born in 2011 and 2015). He raised his children in England, he said it is important to let them create their own identities.
Dara O Briain Dublin
He went to Coláiste Eoin secondary school, a Gaelcholáiste (Irish-speaking medium school) on Dublin’s southside. Dara attended University College Dublin (UCD), where Dara studied mathematics and theoretical physics. In 2008, Dara remarked: “I haven’t written it into my act, but it occasionally comes through. I could come on with a chalkboard and say: ‘Now you’re all going to pay attention.'”
During his time as a student at UCD, Dara was both the auditor of the Literary and Historical Society (the university’s oldest debating society) and the co-founder and co-editor of The University Observer college newspaper. In 1994, Dara received the Irish Times National Debating Championship and The Irish Times/Gael Linn National Irish language debating championship; Dara is a fluent Irish speaker and speaks to his father only in that language.
Dara O Briain Voice Of Reason
In Oct 2017 Dara started touring his show “Voice of Reason”. Plus another 37 nights in Vicar St Theatre in Dublin (to bring his total there to 197 shows), “Voice of Reason” became performed over 175 times, in 20 countries, such as debut shows in Reykjavik, St Petersburg, Malta, Germany, and New Zealand. It became recorded as a BBC special at the Hammersmith Apollo, for broadcast in 2019.
Dara O Briain Stand Up
In 1994, Dara started performing his first stand-up gigs on the Irish comedy circuit. 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 from 1998 to 2000 hosted by Seán Moncrieff. He also hosted the RTÉ family entertainment game show It’s A Family Affair.
His stand-up international career took off around this time as he started to tour heavily, performing across Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America, with gigs in Dubai, Paris, Adelaide, Shanghai, and New York City. On 12 March 2011, Dara, Jack Whitehall, and Jon Richardson set a new Guinness World Records title for hosting the ‘highest stand-up comedy gig in the world’, on a British Airways flight in support of Comic Relief.
Dara O Briain Game Show
He presented the weekend game show It’s a Family Affair on RTÉ Television. It became the first time he worked with retired Channel 4 commissioning editor Séamus Cassidy. They afterward set up the production company Happy Endings Productions, and together they produced (and Dara presented) the chat show Buried Alive (2003) and most popularly in Ireland The Panel (2003–2006).
Dara O Briain Books
– Is There Anybody Out There? (2020)
– Secret Science: The Amazing World Beyond Your Eyes (2018)
– Crowd Tickler (2017)
– Beyond the Sky: You and the Universe (2017)
– 50 Visions of Mathematics (2014)
– Tickling the English (2009)
– Mock the Week: Too Hot for TV (2007)
Dara O Briain Shows
– Echo Island.
– Don’t Feed The Gondolas (1998–2000)
– The Panel (2003–2006)
– Mock the Week (2005–)
– Turn Back Time (2006)
– The Apprentice: You’re Fired! ( 2010–2014)
– Stargazing Live (2011–)
– School of Hard Sums (2012–2014)
Dara O Briain Net Worth
He is an Irish comedian and television presenter based in the United Kingdom known for performing stand-up comedy shows all over the globe and for hosting topical panel shows. Therefore, Dara has accumulated a decent fortune over the years. Dara’s estimated net worth is $5 million.
How Old Is Dara O Briain
Dara is a 51-year-old who was born on February 4, 1972, in Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland.
Who Is Dara O Briain
He is an Irish comedian and television presenter based in the United Kingdom. Dara became known for performing stand-up comedy shows all over the globe and for hosting topical panel shows including Mock the Week, The Panel, and The Apprentice: You’re Fired!. For his work on Mock the Week, Dara became nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance in 2012.