Global Stand-Up Comic & TV Panel Host

Overview

Dara has hosted and appeared on a number of successful panel shows; as well as The Panel and Mock the Week he has featured on Don’t Feed the Gondolas, Have I Got News For You, QI and The Apprentice: You’re Fired!.

The Irish Independent described him as “Terry Wogan’s heir apparent as Britain’s favourite Irishman”.

Writing for The Evening Standard, Bruce Dessau noted that “If you don’t laugh at O Briain, check your pulse, you must be dead.”

Since January 2006, O Briain has taken part in the BBC Three Men in a Boat series, with Rory McGrath and Griff Rhys Jones. The series, broadcast in pairs of episodes around New Year in 2006 and then every year since 2008 have almost consistently brought in 3 million viewers.

O Briain’s was made a household name in Ireland due to his various television roles, whilst his stand up career took-off internationally as he began to tour heavily across Europe, Asia, Australia and North America, with gigs inc...