Dara Ó Briain
Also Known As: Dara O'Briain, Dara O Briain
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
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland
Birthday: February 04, 1972
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Gender: Male
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Mock the Week: Too Hot for TV
Overview: Produced exclusively for DVD, with nearly of 3 hours of the hottest standup comedians performing in the funniest program on TV. Mock the Week - Too Hot For TV contains all the best laugh out load moments that couldn't be shown on TV or anywhere else, for reasons of taste, decency and sheer outrageousness. For the first time see unbroadcastable material from Dara O'Briain, Frankie Boyle, Hugh Dennis, Andy Parsons, Russell Howard and a host of the funniest stand-up comedians on the circuit
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-26
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Have I Got News for You: The Best of the Guest Presenters Volume 2
Overview: Over 2½ hours of the award-winning topical news quiz, featuring previously unseen footage. Team captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton are joined by a different guest presenter each week.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-28
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Dara Ó Briain: Live at the Theatre Royal
Overview: The final date from Dara's sell-out 100 date tour of the UK and Ireland. Recorded in front of 2,500 fans at London's Theatre Royal, this show displays the comedian at his quick-thinking best.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-25
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Dara Ó Briain: Talks Funny
Overview: Recorded at the world famous Hammersmith Apollo before 3,300 fans, this is the culmination of Dara's massive 2008 sellout tour of the UK and Ireland. Dara is at his best, mixing top drawer material with lightning fast improvisation to give his audience yet another hilarious night to remember.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-17
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Dara Ó Briain: This Is the Show
Overview: Dara O Briain - This Is the Show was recorded in front of a sell-out crowd on the final date of his record-breaking nine nights at the world famous Hammersmith Apollo. Dara is on top form as he effortlessly mixes off the cuff audience interaction with razor sharp material and a star studded finale that almost puts Hollywood to shame. "O Briain is loud and large and fast and feisty...............but the way he tells 'em is a joy" - The Times "O Briain has a laser eye for the absurd and the spurious amid the too-much-stuff with which we shore up our hapless lives" - The Guardian "Breakneck genius...... the entire audience was hanging on every sentence. And every sentence ended in a laugh. It was stuffed with dazzling observations, vivid vignettes and glorious gags." Evening Standard
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-22
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Just for Laughs: The Gala Specials - Russell Peters
Overview: Canada’s own comedy rockstar, the unbelievably versatile and talented comedian Russel Peters hosts this stand-up comedy special. He is joined by Dave Merheje, Sophie Buddle, Dara Ó’Briain, James Davis and Robert Kelly in this hilarious show filmed at the Just For Laughs festival in Montreal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-02-09
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Three Men in a Boat
Overview: Griff Rhys Jones, Rory McGrath, Dara O'Briain and Loli the dog set out from Kingston to Oxford across the Thames in a wooden skiff, attempting to re-trace the journey of Jerome K. Jerome in his classic 1889 book "Three Men in a Boat" and having some adventures of their own along the way, including entering a race after rowing into the middle of the Wallingford Regatta.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-03
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Three Men In Another Boat
Overview: Griff Rhys Jones, Dara O'Briain and Rory McGrath reunite for a follow-up journey, this time on board Griff's classic yacht. The trio endeavor to sail from Tower Bridge to the Isle of Wight, followed by participation in a yacht race, with Griff teaching Dara and Rory how to sail.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Mock the Week - Too Hot For TV 2
Overview: Produced exclusively for DVD, three hilarious hours of the country's finest comic minds battling it out on TVs most outrageous comedy show. MOCK THE WEEK TOO HOT FOR TV 2 is the sharpest, rudest and funniest collection of Mock the Week moments so far, delving into the show's archives to unearth laugh out loud nuggets of comedy gold never previously allowed to be shown. Watch Dara O Briain, Frankie Boyle, Hugh Dennis, Russell Howard, Andy Parsons and a host of Britain s finest stand ups pushing the boundaries further than ever before
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-09
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Dara Ó Briain: Craic Dealer - Live 2012
Overview: Dara Ó Briain is in blistering form as he regales the audience of a packed Edinburgh Playhouse with his unique brand of stand-up, mixing razor sharp punchlines with ingenious audience interaction.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-12
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Barry Humphries at the BBC
Overview: Alex Jones looks back at the highlights of Barry’s career on a selection of BBC shows, featuring some of Barry’s funniest, rudest and most revealing moments from over the decades.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-05-28
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Dara Ó Briain: So Where Were We?
Overview: Dara O Briain’s award-winning show filmed at Dublin’s Vicar Street in 2022. Dara deals with missing body parts, a TV show he’ll never do and an astonishing family revelation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-08-21
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50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
Overview: Documentary charting and celebrating five decades of often groundbreaking, boundary-pushing comedy from BBC Two.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-24
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Not Again: Not the Nine O'Clock News
Overview: A look behind the scenes of satirical sketch show Not the Nine O'Clock News.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-28
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The Best of The Panel
Overview: Compilation of the best bits from RTE's The Panel. Featuring the cream of Irish comedy.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-03
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Dara Ó Briain: Crowd Tickler
Overview: The Irish standup on the benefits of hitting his 40s: not feeling the need to watch every Scorsese film and learning to love classical music through the Lurpak butter ad.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-23
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Jack B. Yeats: The Man Who Painted Ireland
Overview: A revelatory, biographical outline of the life and times of Ireland's greatest painter, Jack B. Yeats
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-21
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Making Qi
Overview: Behind the scenes documentary on British panel show Qi.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-10
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Three Men in More Than One Boat
Overview: In their third trip, the trio attempt to get from Plymouth to the Isles of Scilly using several boats.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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The Look of Love
Overview: Paul Raymond builds a porn, entertainment and real estate empire that makes him the wealthiest man in Britain, but drugs doom his beloved daughter, Debbie.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-26
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Michael McIntyre's Big Christmas Show
Overview: In this Christmas Day special, Michael presents leading comedians including Dara O Briain, the fabulous Dame Edna Everage, and ventriloquist and winner of America's Got Talent Paul Zerdin. Featuring music superstars Ellie Goulding and Tom Jones plus Michael's own inimitable style of comedy, the show promises a night packed with festive treats and surprises.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-25
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Mock the Week - Too Hot For TV 3
Overview: If you've ever wondered how 'Mock the Week' would look in a world without censors, then wonder no more. This exclusive DVD contains three specially expanded episodes with all the smut put back in and an even more outrageous sixty minute reel of completely new "too hot" material. See Dara, Frankie, Russell, Andy and Hugh go further than ever before with star guests like Ed Byrne, Rhod Gilbert and David Mitchell joining in the misbehaviour.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-08
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My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw
Overview: Award-winning Irish actor Gabriel Byrne explores the life, works and passions of George Bernard Shaw, a giant of world literature, and - like Byrne - an emigrant Irishman with the outsider's ability to observe, needle and puncture.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-25
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Ken Dodd: How Tickled We Were
Overview: Ken Dodd: How Tickled We Were tells Sir Ken’s story from his boyhood growing up in the 1930s in Knotty Ash, through his big break into show business and then on to his unrivalled career in entertainment. Poignant and uplifting, the programme features interviews with the people who knew Sir Ken best – friends and family in Liverpool and beyond, and his many colleagues, admirers and fellow-performers from the world of entertainment. The programme also features an interview with Sir Ken’s wife, Lady Anne Dodd.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-12-26
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Stop! You're Killing Me
Overview: Amnesty International (Ireland) presents "Stop! You're Killing Me" which features the very best of Irish comedy performed in support of Human Rights. Recorded live at Dublin's Vicar Street Comedy Club in November 2004, the stellar line up of Irish comedians includes acts from Tommy Tiernan (Supertramp), Dylan Moran (Black Books), Ardal O'Hanlon (Father Ted), Dara O'Briain (The Live Floor Show) and performances from other well known Irish comedians such as Eddie Bannon, Des Bishop, Jason Byrne and Mark Geary. Available for the first time on DVD, this is a quick fire show from a new generation of Irish comics and is your chance to laugh and support a great cause at the same time!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-01
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Robin Ince: Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People
Overview: 'Welcome to my folly', declared Robin Ince as he opens Nine Lessons..., his massive sell-out Rationalist Celebration of comedy and science for Christmas. With a star-studded line-up included Richard Dawkins, Stewart Lee, Josie Long, Simon Singh, Richard Herring, Gavin Osbourne, Isy Suttie, Ben Goldacre, Andrew Collins, Waen Shepherd, Christina Martin and Philip Jeays - all accompanied by Martin White and his amazing Mystery Fax Machine Chamber Orchestra. What more could you ask for?.... Oh go on then, as it's Christmas there's also interview contributions from Dara O'Briain and Javis Cocker.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-24
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Dara Ó Briain: Voice of Reason
Overview: Dara Ó Briain's stand-up show filmed live at London's Eventim Apollo. Topics include virtual reality, having too much technology at home and handling reports of your own demise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-01
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Dara Ó Briain Meets Stephen Hawking
Overview: Since he was a teenager, Dara O Briain has been fascinated with professor Stephen Hawking, the world's most celebrated scientist. In this special film, Dara spends time with his boyhood hero as he attends the world premiere of The Theory of Everything, the movie made about his life, and then at Professor Hawking's home and place of work in Cambridge.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-08
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How Videogames Changed the World
Overview: From Pong to Grand Theft Auto, Charlie Brooker delves into the history of videogames and pulls out a selection of its most significant titles. From Atari to Angry Birds, How Videogames Changed the World explores how interactive entertainment evolved from a penny arcade diversion into a medium that some believe is art, and shows how it is changing the way we work, communicate and, of course, play. Joined by Jonathan Ross, Dara O'Briain and gaming legends like Will Wright and John Romero, Brooker looks at how videogames have become the most progressive art form of the last 40 years. This humorous and insightful tour will surprise and entertain the uninitiated and dedicated gamers alike.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-30
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World's Greatest Stand Up: Volume One
Overview: A superb compilation of some of the best stand-up comedians in the world, including Dave Chappelle (whose last DVD release in the US sold over 3 million units), a rare performance from David Hyde Pierce (star of Frasier), plus some big names from the UK, such as Lee Evans, Dylan Moran and Dara O'Briain.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-08
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Charlie Brooker's Gameswipe
Overview: Charlie Brooker sets his caustic sights on video games. Expect acerbic comment as he looks at the various genres, how they have changed since their early conception and how the media represents games and gamers. Features interviews with Dara O Briain, sitcom scribe Graham Linehan and Rab and Ryan from Consolevania.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-29
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Brand Irish
Overview: Why is it that St Patrick’s Day is the only national holiday that is celebrated in almost every country across the world? Why can Irish pubs be found from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe? It seems that nearly everybody on the planet has some sort of a connection to Ireland.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-03-17
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Oo my baby
Overview: A woman's stroller rolls terrifyingly down a hill, her baby at risk, who will save her baby?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-13
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Door(s)
Overview: The phone rings, someone is arriving…
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-24
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