Dara O Briain
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Dara Briain (born 4 February 1972) is an Irish comedian and television presenter based in the United Kingdom.
He is known for appearing on international television shows, as well as hosting topical panel shows such as Mock the Week, The Panel, and The Apprentice: You're Fired!
In 2012, he was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Effort in Mock the Week for his work on Mock the Week. Briain's television career also includes acting in and writing of a television comedy and documentary film.
He has also been a newspaper columnist, with pieces appearing in national newspapers in both Britain and Ireland. He has written books for both adults and children.
In 2017, he was nominated for a Blue Peter Book of the Year Award for his first children's book "Beyond the Sky." The Irish Independent named Briain as Britain's "favourite Irishman" in 2009, and reportedly the 16th best stand-up comedy on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups.
Early life
Briain was born in 1972 in Bray, County Wicklow, and adopted into what he described as "a loving home" where he enjoyed a happy childhood with his "supportive" parents. On Dublin's southside, he attended Coláiste Eoin secondary school, a Gaelcholastic secondary school. He studied mathematics and theoretical physics at University College Dublin (UCD). In 2008, he wrote: "I haven't written it into my play, but it does come along." "Now you're all going to pay attention,'" I could go on with a chalkboard.
He served as both the auditor and co-editor of The University Observer college newspaper while a student at UCD, as well as the auditor of the Literary and Historical Society (the university's oldest debating society). He won the Irish Times National Debating Championship and The Irish Times/Gael Linn National Irish debating championship in 1994; he is a fluent Irish speaker and speaks to his father in a specific way; he does not speak in Irish.
He competed for both Gaelic football and hurling for Bray Emmets and hurling for the Wicklow County minor team.
Personal life
Briain married Susan, a surgeon, in 2006; they live in West London with their three children, one daughter (born 2008) and two sons (born 2011 and 2015). After Byrne was previously the best man at his best friend Ed Byrne's wedding in 2008, he became Briain's best man. "I'm sure I'm one of Tony Soprano's henchmen on a bad day," he said, "I live in London and I'm sure I only get to know about once a day." And that's fine by me. I am not a celebrity. I certainly don't see myself as one.
Briain is an atheist, but he has also described himself as "ethnically Catholic": "I'm adamantly atheist, but I don't believe in God": "I'm adamantly atheist, I don't believe in God." Of course, I'm also Catholic. Catholicism has a much larger reach than just the faith. "I'm actually Catholic, but it's the box you have to tick on the census form: "Don't believe in God," the Pope says, but I hate Rangers."
His surname is the original Irish spelling of O'Brien. "My dad was instrumental in the Irish language movement and changed it," he said. Even Irish people are now confused by it."
Briain is a fan of English football team Arsenal, and he is also a fan of Gaelic games. When his tweet congratulating London on knocking Sligo out of the 2013 Football Championship was read out on The Sunday Game, Briain expressed incredulsion and promised to have one read out every week. Briain has expressed an interest in Irish cricket and has written about it for The Guardian newspaper.
Briain was one of fifteen members of a racing greyhound syndicate for many years. Snip Nua, the dog that had been put down by the time of transmission, had been put down due to injuries sustained in a race, and was included in Three Men Go to Ireland's December 2009 transmission. Briain was so ill about the death that he and his fellow syndicate members disbanded the syndicate permanently. A handful of small protests were held outside one of Briain's tour venues in early 2010, urging him to publicly condemn greyhound racing due to the dog's death.
He successfully sought out his birth family in 2020, despite knowing he was adopted.