Dara Ó Briain, born 4 February 1972 is an award-winning Irish comedian and television presenter, currently most famous for hosting topical panel show Mock the Week.
Ó Briain has hosted and appeared on a number of successful panel shows including The Panel, Don’t Feed the Gondolas, Mock the Week, Have I Got News For You and QI. Writing for the The Evening Standard, Bruce Dessau noted that “If you don’t laugh at Ó Briain, check your pulse, you must be dead.”
Ó Briain was born in Wicklow and attended Coláiste Eoin, a Gaelscoil on Dublin’s southside. He attended college in University College, Dublin, where he studied maths and theoretical physics. In 2008, he 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.’” While a student there, he was both the auditor of the Literary and Historical Society (the university’s oldest debating society and the official College Debating Union) and the co-founder and co-editor of the University Observer college newspaper. In 1994, he won the Irish Times National Debating Championship and the Irish Times/Gael Linn National Irish language ebating championship; he is fluent in Irish.
Ó Briain married Susan, a doctor, in 2006 and they have a young daughter together. He describes himself as looking like “one of Tony Soprano’s henchmen”, and admits that, “living in London I probably only get recognised about once a day. And that’s okay by me. I’m not a celebrity. And I certainly don’t see myself as one.”
Ó Briain has said he sees himself as an atheist, but “ethnically Catholic”: “I’m staunchly atheist, I simply don’t believe in God. But I’m still Catholic, of course. Catholicism has a much broader reach than just the religion. I’m technically Catholic, it’s the box you have to tick on the census form: ‘Don’t believe in God, but I do still hate Rangers.’”
His surname is the original Irish form of O’Brien, indicating his descent from King Brian Boru (c. 941-1014). He admitted, “My dad was involved in the Irish language movement and changed it. Even Irish people are now confused by it”. He is a keen Arsenal F.C fan.
Mock the Week host Dara O’Briain is set to embark on a massive 60 date UK tour in 2010. After a sell-out 2008 tour, a best selling DVD and a book riding high in the bestseller charts, Dara O’Briain should have no problems filling seats on this six month tour. The tour starts on March 1st in Stoke and ends in Edinburgh’s Playhouse in October.
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