Dara Ó Briain Biography
Dara Ó Briain is an Irish comedian and TV personality located in the United Kingdom. He is famous for performing stand-up comedy shows all around the world and for hosting topical panel series such as Mock the Week, The Panel, and The Apprentice: You’re Fired!. In 2009, the Irish Independent called Ó Briain “Terry Wogan’s heir apparent as Britain’s ‘favourite Irishman'”.
How old is Dara Ó Briain? – Age
He is 52 years old as of February 4, 2024. He was born in 1972 in Bray, Ireland.
Dara Ó Briain Family – Education
Ó Briain was born in 1972 in Bray, County Wicklow, and was adopted into “a stable home” where he lived a pleasant upbringing with his “supportive” parents. He went to Coláiste Eoin high school, a Gaelcholáiste (Irish-language medium school) on Dublin’s southside. He attended University College Dublin (UCD) to study mathematics and theoretical physics.
During his time at UCD, he was the auditor of the Literary and Historical organization (the university’s oldest debate organization) as well as the co-founder and editor of The University Observer. He won the Irish Times National Debating Championship and the Irish Times/Gael Linn National Irish Language Debating Championship in 1994; he is a fluent Irish speaker who communicates exclusively with his father in Irish. He represented Bray Emmets in Gaelic football and hurling, as well as Wicklow County’s minor team.
Dara Ó Briain Wife
In 2006, Ó Briain tied the knot with surgeon Susan. Their three children—two sons (born in 2011 and 2015) and a daughter (born in 2008)—live in West London. In 2008, he served as best man at the wedding of his best friend Ed Byrne, who had previously been Ó Briain’s best man.
Dara Ó Briain Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $4 million.
Dara Ó Briain Stand-up
Ó Briain’s phenomenal worldwide vocation took off close to this time as he visited vigorously, performing across Europe, Asia, Australia and North America, with gigs in Dubai, Paris, Adelaide, Shanghai and New York City. He was an ordinary at the Kilkenny Feline Chuckles and the Edinburgh Celebration Periphery, as well as showing up at the Only For Giggles celebration in Montreal in 2002, where he was offered a renowned function show as a result of his exhibitions at the Irish grandstand.
Close to this time, Ó Briain introduced the end of the week game show It’s a Family Issue on RTÉ TV. It was whenever he first worked with the previous Channel 4 authorizing proofreader Séamus Cassidy. They later set up the creation organization Blissful Endings Creations, and together they delivered (and Ó Briain introduced) the talk show Covered Alive (2003) and most broadly in Ireland The Board (2003-2006). In 2005, Ó Briain’s eighth show at the Edinburgh Celebration Periphery was the greatest selling solo satire show of the celebration.
In mid 2006, Ó Briain directed his third visit through the Unified Realm and Ireland. This included shows at the Theater Imperial, in London as well as nine evenings in Dublin at Vicar Road. His second night in the Theater Illustrious, Drury Path, in London was recorded for his most memorable live DVD. His fourth global visit continued in late 2007, which as he says in his routine has “no title” yet was practically named “You Must Be There”.
He performed new visits across the UK and Ireland in 2008, 2010, 2012, 2015 and 2018. His 2010 visit played for 150 dates, to north of 225,000 individuals, remembering 37 evenings for Vicar St. in Dublin, nine evenings at the Hammersmith Apollo in London and a first date in Dubai. Every one of those three visits were recorded for DVD, and the 2012 visit, named ‘Craic Seller’, was comparably recorded during his shows at the Edinburgh Playhouse in May 2012. “Craic Vendor” ran for more than 150 shows, as did his 2015 visit “Group Tickler”, this time with dates in Scandinavia, Northern Europe and Australia added to the visit. The visit was recorded for a DVD discharge.
On 12 Walk 2011, Ó Briain, Jack Whitehall and Jon Richardson set another Guinness Worldwide bests title for facilitating the ‘most noteworthy stand-up parody gig on the planet’, on an English Aviation routes trip on the side of Entertainment. In 2011, Ó Briain partook in two shows of the 16-date Uncaged Monkeys visit with Teacher Brian Cox, Robin Ince, Ben Goldacre, Simon Singh and Chris Addison.
In October 2017, he began visiting his show “Voice of Reason”. As well as an additional 37 evenings in Vicar St Theater in Dublin (to carry his all out there to 197 shows), “Voice of Reason” was performed in excess of multiple times, in 20 nations, incorporating debut shows in Reykjavík, Holy person Petersburg, Malta, Germany and New Zealand. It was recorded as a BBC extraordinary at the Hammersmith Apollo, for broadcast in 2019. He had initially wanted to play out the show on debut visits to the US and Canada in 2020, yet this was delayed after the initial four US dates, toward the beginning of Spring, because of the Coronavirus pandemic. The Canadian piece of the visit continued in August 2021.
In September 2021, he reported another show, named “So… Where Were We?”, with a visit beginning in November 2021. Because of the continuous Coronavirus pandemic, a piece of the visit in Ireland that was initially anticipated January 2022 was pushed back to Spring through June 2022. He has been visiting since and expanded the visit.
Dara Ó Briain Career
The Board was facilitated by Ó Briain. Multiple times selected for the Best Diversion show IFTA (Irish Film and TV Grants), the show has an alternating cast of specialists, normally drawn from the universe of Irish parody, examining the occasions of the week and meeting visitors. The most ordinary specialists have been Colin Murphy, Ed Byrne, Neil Delamere, Andrew Maxwell and Mairéad Farrell.
Around 2002, with his profile ascending in the UK because of his small time shows at the Edinburgh Celebration Periphery, Ó Briain started showing up on UK TV programs, for example, Present to Me the Head of Light Diversion (a Channel 5 creation) and Quit worrying about the Buzzcocks. In mid 2003, he facilitated the second series of BBC Scotland’s Live Floor Show. His large break in UK TV came in 2003, when he showed up as a visitor specialist on news test, Have I Got News for You, in this way showing up as visitor host of the show.
In 2003, Ó Briain was selected at the Laugh Satire Grants for Live Parody in the classes Best Compère and Best Title Act (which he would proceed to win). In 2004, he won the Best Main event grant once more, as well as being designated for Best Full-length Show. From 2005 to 2022, he was the host of the parody board show Mock the Week on BBC Two, a mix between Do I Have News for Yourself and Whose Line Is It At any rate? The show arrived at its 200th episode during its nineteenth series in 2019.
He is a generally continuous specialist on QI and expounded on Ireland in the QI series E yearly, and shows up sometimes on One moment on BBC Radio 4. He additionally holds the record for most prominent number of appearances on the BBC stand-up grandstand Inhabit the Apollo, where he seemed multiple times.
Ó Briain has seemed a few times in the BBC Radio science/parody show The Endless Monkey Enclosure which debuted on 30 November 2009 on Radio 4. In 2010, Ó Briain supplanted Adrian Chiles as the moderator of The Disciple: You’re Terminated!. Following five years, he quit following the 2014 series.
In 2016, Ó Briain started facilitating a board show about computer games called Dara O Briain’s Go 8 Cycle. In 2019, Ó Briain showed up as a visitor on Speculative.
Starting around 2006, Ó Briain has featured in the BBC’s Three Men in a Boat series, with Griff Rhys Jones and Rory McGrath. The series has incorporated the threesome paddling the Stream Thames, as in the 1889 novel of a similar name, cruising from London to the Isle of Wight for a sail boat race, getting various vessels to advance from Plymouth to the Isles of Scilly. In 2009, the three took to the Irish trenches and waterways out traveling from Dublin to Limerick. In 2010, they investigated the Isles of Scotland. In 2011, two more series were made; one making a trip from Montenegro to Venice, the other going down the New Britain coast in the US to New York. In absolute seven series were made.
On 14 September 2005, Ó Briain showed up as a visitor on Room 101, where he disposed of kids’ TV moderators (following his work as a moderator on Reverberation Island) and once in a blue moon encounters (he was given a rare encounter on the show by being the second visitor to pull the switch that opens the chute to Room 101 – the first had been previous host Scratch Hancock). He likewise disposed of talk, Gillian McKeith and entertainers.
Ó Briain has likewise been a broad paper feature writer, with pieces distributed in numerous public papers in both the UK and Ireland, from The Sunday Times to The Day to day Transmit. On 9 August 2006 he facilitated the primary version of his talk show Travel back in time, which just ran for one series.
On 1 October 2009, Ó Briain delivered his most memorable book entitled Stimulating the English, about what he thinks of it as means to be English. As a feature of its advancement, he has expressed that he is excited about English culture and an understudy of English history, his #1 occasions being the Gin Frenzy and the nationwide conflict. In a survey of Stimulating the English, Ó Briain was portrayed as Sir Terry Wogan’s presumptive successor as England’s “most loved Irishman”.
Ó Briain has facilitated the English Foundation Computer games Grants multiple times somewhere in the range of 2009 and 2019, including 2012, when features were likewise displayed on Challenge.[29][30] In 2012 he facilitated the Bafta TV grants, that very year he was designated for a Best Diversion Execution Grant.
From 3 to 5 January 2011, Ó Briain and Brian Cox introduced Stargazing Live on BBC Two, three projects based at the Jodrell Bank Observatory, planned to match with the combination of Jupiter and Uranus, an incomplete sun oriented obscure, and the Quadrantid meteor shower. The two moderators facilitated a second series of three-drawn out programs, in addition to follow-up 30-minute shows called Stargazing Live: Back to Earth, from 16 to 18 January 2012. From 8 to 10 January 2013, they introduced the third series, again joined by Back to Earth.
Stargazing Live has kept on running discontinuously consistently, including live inclusion of the Fractional sun oriented obscure over the Uk in 2015, Space traveler Tim Peake’s excursion to the ISS in 2016, and a 50th commemoration festivity of the Apollo missions in 2019. Stargazing Live was selected for a Bafta for Best Live TV Occasion in 2017.
From 16 April 2012, Ó Briain introduced an eight-episode series of School of Hard Totals with co-have Marcus du Sautoy on Dave. Every episode was themed and Ó Briain alongside a visitor endeavored to tackle different problems posted by du Sautoy. Series 2 started on 1 May 2013. On 6 November 2012, Ó Briain started introducing a series called Dara Ó Briain’s Science Club, in which he and different famous people examine science issues. The primary version of this program highlights Ed Byrne discussing how firmly related he is to the Neanderthals. Every episode in the series incorporates a short energized history that has been made by the UK movement and representation office 12Foot6.[33]
In 2013, Ó Briain joined Jack Dee, Chelsee Healey, Greg James, Melanie C and Philips Idowu in Through a lot of hardship and High Water, an Entertainment challenge which included English VIPs paddling the most troublesome rapids of the Zambezi Stream. They raised over £1 million for the foundation.
Dara and Ed’s Incredible Large Experience, a 2015 three-section eavesdropper TV series, followed Ó Briain and Ed Byrne on their excursion via vehicle down the Skillet American Expressway. In June 2015, Dara Ó Briain Meets Stephen Selling, in which Ó Briain goes to Cambridge for a progression of meetings with hypothetical physicist Stephen Peddling, broadcasted on BBC One.
From January to Walk 2016, Ó Briain introduced The upcoming Food, a three-episode series close by Angela Hartnett, Chris Bavin and Dr Shini Somara. The BBC One show checked out at the advancements and produce in ranches, general stores, kitchens and eateries all over the planet. Ó Briain introduced the 2016 reboot of Robot Wars beginning on 24 July, as well as the ensuing two series in 2017.
He facilitated a restoration of the exemplary test show Blockbusters, which started circulating on Good times TV on 21 Walk 2019 until 5 December 2019. In June 2019, he was the host of The Family Mind Games. He co-facilitated this with Hannah Critchlow, who was answerable for the mental examination and upheld by Adam Hampshire. This program was won by the Smith Group of Newmilns, Ayrshire.
Ó Briain additionally presents C4 test show One and Six Zeros. On 23 June 2022, Ó Briain was affirmed to star as a competitor in series 14 of C4 satire game show Drill sergeant. He won the second episode of the series with 30 places, turning into the primary individual in the show’s set of experiences to win the greatest conceivable number of focuses on offer in a solitary episode, and later proceeded to win the series with the most noteworthy at any point complete score. In 2024, Ó Briain would get back to contend with Sarah Kendall, Morgana Robinson, Sophie Duker and (subbing in for Series 15 boss Mae Martin) Kiell Smith-Bynoe in the third Slave driver: Boss of Champions extraordinary, where he by and by was successful. In August 2023, Ó Briain gave Marvels of the Moon Dara Ó Briain; a two-section series that circulated on Channel 5.