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DARA O BRIAIN TO PLAY A FIFTH NIGHT AT THE HAMMERSMITH APOLLO DUE TO OUTSTANDING PUBLIC DEMAND
A fifth night has been announced for Dara O Briain at the Hammersmith Apollo on Thursday 25th October, due to outstanding public demand. Tickets go on sale 10:00am on Wednesday 25th April from the box office.
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DARA O BRIAIN’S NEW SERIES ON DAVE OPENS WITH TWICE THE CHANNEL’S AVERAGE AUDIENCE
Dara O Briain‘s new series School Of Hard Sums opens on Dave with twice the channel’s average audience with 400,000 viewers. The show goes out on Monday nights at 8:00pm.
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DARA O BRIAIN TO HOST THE TV BAFTA AWARDS ON SUNDAY 27TH MAY
Dara O Briain is to replace Graham Norton as the host of the TV Bafta Awards on Friday 27th May at London’s Royal Festival Hall. The show will be broadcast later that evening on BBC1.
Due to a clash of dates Graham Norton has been forced to step aside due to him presenting the Eurovision Song Contest that weekend. The host of The Apprentice: You’re Fired and Mock The Week said ‘I’m delighted and honoured to be taking the reigns of the British Academy Television Awards, in the prestigious role as the person who introduces the people who read out the winners of the awards. And if Adele wins anything I promise I’ll leave her well alone, no matter what time it is.’
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DARA O BRIAIN TO PLAY A FOURTH NIGHT AT THE EDINBURGH PLAYHOUSE DUE TO OUTSTANDING PUBLIC DEMAND
Dara O Briain is to play a fourth night at the Edinburgh Playhouse on Wednesday 23rd May. Tickets are on sale from the box office.
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DARA O BRIAIN RETURNS TO THE HAMMERSMITH APOLLO TO PLAY FOUR NIGHTS THIS OCTOBER
Dara O Briain is returning to the world famous Hammersmith Apollo to play a run of four shows this October. Dates for the new tour entitled Craic Dealer are Friday 19th, Saturday 20th, Friday 26th and Saturday 27th October, and are now on sale.
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OFFICIAL DARA O BRIAIN TICKETS
Dara O Briain tour 2012 tickets can be purchased through official websites: www.offthekerb.co.uk or www.daraobriain.com
To avoid the risk of being charged at above face value please do not buy from any secondary ticketing sites.
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DARA O BRIAIN – CRAIC DEALER
Following 2010′s hundred and fifty date sell out tour of the UK & Ireland and best selling DVD This Is The Show, Irish funnyman Dara O Briain hits the road again with a brand new show for 2012. Dara is one of the most recognisable faces of British TV, hosting Mock The Week, The Apprentice – Your Fired, Stargazing Live and starring in Three Men in a Boat.
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MOCK THE WEEK RETURNS TO BBC2 SEPTEMBER 8TH WITH A BRAND NEW SERIES
Mock The Week starts a six week run on BBC2 Thursday 8th September, with our very own Dara O Briain and Andy Parsons.
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WELCOME TO OFF THE KERB PRODUCTIONS’ NEW WEBSITE
Please check back regularly as we build up news on all your favourite acts – as agents to the best comic talent in the United Kingdom, you will find news and announcements here before anywhere else, as well as safe links to purchase tour tickets whilst avoiding ticket touts.
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BIOGRAPHY
Dara O Briain
Dara O Briain is a stand-up comedian, and television presenter, best known in the UK for hosting BBC’s Mock the Week, and in Ireland for hosting RTÉ 2′s The Panel.
Dara is one the few performers to host successful comedy shows in both the UK and his native Ireland at the same time. He started his career in television as a children’s presenter on RTÉ whilst performing his first stand-up gigs on the Irish comedy circuit, after studying at University College, Dublin, where he studied Mathematical Physics.
Dara came to prominence in Ireland as host of topical panel show Don’t Feed The Gondolas (1998-2000). He had to leave the show midway through its fifth season in order to perform at the Adelaide and Melbourne comedy festivals.
Dara later co-founded the television production company Happy Endings Productions, whose most famous show in Ireland is The Panel (2003-onwards). The show has become one of the most talked about shows in Ireland and was twice nominated for the Best Entertainment show IFTA (Irish Film and Television Award).
His big break in UK television came in 2003 when he became host of BBC2′s Live Floor Show. This led to an appearance as guest and, ultimately, four appearances as guest host of the popular news quiz, Have I Got News For You. By this time he had moved to the UK and was working on the British circuit full-time.
Dara sold out the entire run in Edinburgh in 2002, a feat he was to repeat for the next three years. By 2005, he was the biggest selling solo stand-up comedy show on the Edinburgh Fringe.
Dara’s hosted nine successful series’ of the comedy panel game Mock the Week for BBC television and can also be seen hosting BBC 2′s The Apprentice: You’re Fired.
Other notable television work sees Dara as an integral member of the Three Men in a Boat, alongside Griff Rhys Jones and Rory McGrath – the show is now in it’s fourth series. In 2007 Dara also fronted the BBC comedy interview programme Turn Back Time and in 2011 Dara co-hosted BBC1′s astronomical show Stargazing Live alongside Professor Brian Cox.
Dara is also one of the most sought after award show hosts in Britain and regularly hosts The Empire Film Awards and the BAFTA Video Game Awards.
Dara’s first book Tickling the English, released in 2009, proved to be an instant hit, remaining in the charts for nigh on two years after release. Part travelogue, part tour diary, the result is an affectionate, hilarious and often eye-opening journey through the Sceptred Isle.
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