Dara Ó Briain
Department: Acting
Biography
Dara Ó Briain (born 4 February 1972) is an Irish comedian and television presenter based in the United Kingdom and Ireland. He is noted for hosting topical panel shows such as Mock the Week, The Panel, and The Apprentice: You're Fired!. His TV work also includes starring in and writing of television comedy and documentary series. Ó Briain has also been a newspaper columnist, with pieces published in national papers in both Britain and Ireland. In 2009, the Irish Independent described Ó Briain as "Terry Wogan's heir apparent as Britain's 'favourite Irishman'" and in 2010, Ó Briain was voted the 16th greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Known For
Mock the Week: Too Hot for TV
2007
Have I Got News for You: The Best of the Guest Presenters Volume 2
2005
Dara Ó Briain: Live at the Theatre Royal
2006
Dara Ó Briain: Talks Funny
2008
Dara Ó Briain: This Is the Show
2010
Just for Laughs: The Gala Specials - Russell Peters
2023
Three Men in a Boat
2006
Three Men In Another Boat
2008
Mock the Week - Too Hot For TV 2
2009
Dara Ó Briain: Craic Dealer - Live 2012
2012
Barry Humphries at the BBC
2023
Dara Ó Briain: So Where Were We?
2023
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
2014
Not Again: Not the Nine O'Clock News
2009
The Best of The Panel
2009
Dara Ó Briain: Crowd Tickler
2015
Jack B. Yeats: The Man Who Painted Ireland
2021
Making Qi
2011
Three Men in More Than One Boat
2009
The Look of Love
2013
Michael McIntyre's Big Christmas Show
2015
Mock the Week - Too Hot For TV 3
2010
My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw
2018
Ken Dodd: How Tickled We Were
2018
Stop! You're Killing Me
2004
Robin Ince: Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People
2010
Dara Ó Briain: Voice of Reason
2020
Dara Ó Briain Meets Stephen Hawking
2015
How Videogames Changed the World
2013
World's Greatest Stand Up: Volume One
2006
Charlie Brooker's Gameswipe
2009
Brand Irish
2016
Oo my baby
2022
Door(s)
2022
All About TWO
2014
So You Think You're Irish
1997
Dara Ó Briain: Re:Creation
2026
This Morning
1988
Live at the Apollo
2004
Soccer AM
1995
The One Show
2006
QI
2003
Hypothetical
2019
Room 101
1994
Turn Back Time
2006
8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown
2013
Let's Dance for Comic Relief
2009
Tough Gig
2007
The Last Laugh
2006
Tomorrow's Food
2015
Wonders of the Moon with Dara Ó Briain
2023
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
2014
Live Floor Show
2002
Would I Lie to You?
2007
Richard Osman's House of Games Night
2020
Stargazing Live
2011
Jack B. Yeats: The Man who Painted Ireland
2021
The One Show
2006
Robot Wars
2016
Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit
2016
One and Six Zeros
2022
Top Gear
2002
Duck Quacks Don't Echo
2014
Gadget Man
2012
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
1996
The Apprentice: You're Fired!
2006
Taskmaster: Champion of Champions
2017
The Late Late Show
1962
Taskmaster
2015
LEGO Masters
2017
8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown
2013
Dara Ó Briain: School of Hard Sums
2012
Dara & Ed's Road to Mandalay
2017
Dara and Ed's Great Big Adventure
2015
Dara O Briain's Science Club
2012
Mock the Week
2005
A League of Their Own
2010
Mock the Week Too Hot for TV
2011
Michael McIntyre's The Wheel
2020
The Family Brain Games
2019
Blockbusters
2019
The Graham Norton Show
2007
The Panel
2003
Mysteries of the Pyramids with Dara Ó Briain
2024
The Last Leg
2013
Big Fat Quiz
2004
Secrets of the Sun with Dara Ó Briain
2024
Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly)
2014
Horrible Histories
2009
Three Men in a Boat
2006
Rhod Gilbert's Growing Pains
2021
Have I Got News for You
1990
Have I Got News for You
1990
Volcano with Dara Ó Briain
2025
QI
2003
Crackanory
2013
National Parks from Above: Ireland with Dara O Briain
2025
Live at the Apollo
2004
Mock the Week
2026