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Dara O Briain
Dara O Briain

Dara O Briain

  • 52 years old
  • Irish
  • Stand-up comedian and writer

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Live review: Dara O Briain, Eventim Apollo, W6

Dara O Briain hits the ground running in his latest show, So...Where Were We? Or maybe that should be limping. He arrives onstage brandishing a stick which helps to illustrate a story about his knackered kneecap.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 17th October 2022

Dara O Briain review: the Mock The Week man gets intimate

Fine crowd-work, choice joke-writing and a standout set-piece about the comedian's Kafkaesque efforts to trace his birth parents.

Brian Logan, The Guardian, 16th October 2022

Dara Ó Briain, Touring review

He lands on a wide range of subjects, going off at tangents and delivering flights of fancy.

Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 15th October 2022

TV review: Taskmaster Series 14, Episode 2, C4

The pace is hotting up in the current series of Taskmaster with the relative competitive edges of the contestants - Fern Brady, Dara O Briain, John Kearns, Sarah Millican and Munya Chawawa - starting to show.A

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 7th October 2022

TV review: Taskmaster Series 14, C4

I just hope Fern Brady, in a very tight one piece superhero suit, manages to get to the loo when she needs it. And I don't mean the unplumbed one in the Gatwick south terminal.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 30th September 2022

Dara Ó Briain: 'It's not too soon to make jokes about the King'

As Mock The Week begins its final run, the BBC show's host derides "thin-skinned" politicians and rebuts claims that it's "Left-leaning".

Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 22nd September 2022

Taskmaster Series 14 starts 29th September

Series 14 of Taskmaster starts on Channel 4 on Thursday 29th September.

British Comedy Guide, 15th September 2022

Dara O Briain: Mock The Week was never part of the culture wars. We only fought for laughs

If there's one lesson I draw looking back on it all, it's this: people have taken our nonsense waaaayyyy too seriously.

Dara O Briain, The Guardian, 6th August 2022

Dara O Briain issues scathing response to Andrew Neil who said show 'deserved' to be axed

Fans praised the host for 'absolutely obliterating' the broadcaster with his reply.

Annabel Nugent, The Independent, 4th August 2022

Dara O Briain's family holiday skewered as he learned of MTW's axing

Mock The Week host Dara O Briain was away on holiday when he was told the news that his beloved comedy programme was being cancelled by the BBC after 17 years.

Cydney Yeates, Metro, 3rd August 2022

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