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Dara Ó Briain

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Talks far too quickly, mumbles, and yet, still doing it. Touring New show Nov 2021, into 2022/23! Latest science book for kids "Is there Anybody Out There?"

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1Dec 21, '22Here is my annual reminder that if Santa is bringing a games console, Santa might want to plug it in and turn it on and get all the updates done now, in advance, so that it is all 22.2×8.9M127k10k763
2Jun 3, '20Just found out that George Floyd was originally stopped by the police because he handed over a counterfeit note in a shop. I did that once! They handed me back the note as a souven15.2×0154k22k402
3Jul 20, '23I remember when I moved to London I couldn’t open an account at Lloyd’s in Crouch End because they didn’t accept the Irish passport as valid ID. I didn’t go on Newsnight to complai14.7×5.9M49k4.5k149
4Sep 14, '21Gutted. Was supposed to be attending a wedding in Trinidad, but it’s just been cancelled. Family won’t say why.14.4×0163k11k938
5Nov 3, '25This is genuinely insane. I mean, just worryingly divorced from any reality. How desperate are people to believe this nonsense?11.4×4.6M66k5.4k2.4k
6Mar 12, '23I like the way he said “episode”, the way football fans always say “I hope it’s a good episode of Match of The Day tonight”.10×4M23k62460
7Feb 22, '21If the government are planning to re-open schools in 3 weeks, shouldn’t we just vaccinate all teachers and school staff right now?8.7×090k9.1k84
8Feb 20, '24If you think the Irish are doing well at all the Movie awards this year, wait until this wins Best Picture next year.8.5×3.4M19k1.5k1.4k
9Apr 23, '23So, despite never ever actually having had a blue tick, (I liked the idea that I might have been a parody account all this time) I wake up this morning to find I have been given on8.2×3.3M20k60440
10Aug 17, '23I had the privilege of doing the Michael Parkinson show 3 times and it the most I ever felt like I was in “proper showbiz”. He was a consummate pro on-screen, and generous and enco7.5×3M14k42299
11Mar 10, '23What a dreadful generation of wet, weak, snowflakes this shower are. An embarrassment to 300 years of parliamentary debate. Would sooner cry for apologies and sackings than actual 7.2×2.9M28k2.7k94
12Jul 26, '23Ah shite, Sinead O’Connor has died. That’s just very sad news. Poor thing. I hope she realised how much love there was for her.7.1×2.9M42k1.5k62
13Jul 9, '23Man, looks like I picked a great time not to be a presenter on either RTE or BBC.6.5×2.6M27k64546
14Jun 9, '23Always worth reminding people that you don’t actually HAVE to call them “Sir…” or “Lord..” because we don’t actually live in Fairy-tale Land, and they should grow up and stop givin6.5×2.6M20k2.7k63
15Sep 9, '23Imagine escaping prison and disappearing for four days just to get nabbed outside the Taskmaster House.6.4×2.6M19k580145
16Mar 13, '23Well done @garylineker at enduring this ridiculous, contrived “controversy”; and demonstrating that, as ever, people are perfectly capable of handling the idea that a grown-up can 5.2×2.1M22k1k35
17Apr 23, '23Hmmm. Not sure this would be helpful in an emergency.4.9×2M12k52866
18Aug 20, '23Ah, that old inspirational sports phrase “Leave nothing out there”.4.8×1.9M12k46776
19Aug 3, '22Still, at least I didn’t bail on it after two weeks and fuck off to my house in France, eh Andrew? All the best! X4.8×053k3.8k115
20Mar 28, '24Just had to pay £17 in customs charges to get three Easter eggs sent by grandparents in Ireland, released from the Post Office. Yay for Brexit!4.8×1.9M23k1.9k163
21Aug 1, '23Exciting to see the Daily Mail today misquoting a comedy routine of mine, as a news story. I’m sure it will get lost amidst proper celebrity gossip but let me just clarify I said n4.8×1.9M11k82743
22Nov 24, '23Somewhere in Dublin, there’s a lad watching the Toy show, who 24 hours ago, was setting fire to a bus. And he still has City-Liverpool to look forward to tomorrow.4.6×1.9M12k414105
23Jun 9, '23But WHY did Trump take boxes and boxes of documents? It’s not like he was going to read them, was it? Genuine question, by the way.4.5×1.8M12k46429
24May 19, '20I will never understand how Britain has a government that celebrates giving up their own citizen’s freedoms. That’s YOUR freedom of movement they’re ending.4.5×041k7.9k81
25Dec 8, '21When are Allegra Stratton’s leaving drinks?4.5×051k3.4k60
26Dec 8, '21Soooo…. The sackable offence wasn’t holding a Xmas party, but joking about the Xmas party?4.4×048k4.4k73
27Sep 20, '23Just got back into the Uk after a two week Canadian tour, and while the compulsory car share from Heathrow was a surprise, it was lovely to hear how everyone else is handling the n4.0×1.6M15k1.2k45
28Nov 4, '23We could get angry at Suella’s latest piece of performative, pandering cruelty or… instead: let’s promote the excellent work done by @Shelter, @centrepointuk, @PassageCharity and o3.9×1.6M19k4.8k46
29Jul 31, '23Wonderful afternoon at the All-Ireland football final yesterday. Delighted to be part of the first BBC national broadcast of the final, and to be in such good company. Obviously af3.6×1.5M14k24545
31Dec 22, '22People are leaping up and down at Joe Lycette because he once gigged in Qatar. So what? Working IN a country isn’t the same as being paid to promote it. See if that logic works for3.4×1.4M12k31322
32May 7, '23Readers: So, we’d like a nice, fun article about Prince Louis pulling faces. Something light and frothy. The Guardian:3.4×1.3M15k693132
33Dec 11, '18I’ve been living in the UK for nearly 20 years. I love it. Great people; warm and witty and friendly. Amazing creators, scientists, artists, engineers. But jesus, represented in pa3.4×031k5.6k25
34Nov 11, '19Sorry... what?3.3×039k1.8k128
35Jun 7, '23Well, well. This complicates things.3.1×1.2M13k7442
36May 25, '22Looking forward to, I dunno, stealing somebody’s bag later and if caught, just repeating “I take full responsibility for this” as I walk away, carrying the bag.3.0×032k3.5k61
37Mar 10, '23There is an Irish phrase I wish you all knew and used in the UK: “making a hames of something”. For example in the sentence “The BBC is making a fucking hames of this”. You can pro2.9×1.2M21k98837
38Apr 3, '25These is something particularly crass and callous about announcing a 44% trade tariff against Myanmar, this week, of all weeks.2.9×1.2M24k2.5k248
39Dec 24, '20This is a little reminder that if Santa Claus if planning to give a games console as a gift he’ll often plug it in before Christmas Day and download all the updates, which can take2.9×032k2.5k47
40Oct 2, '18I find this honestly bewildering. How would you endure, let alone celebrate, losing this?2.9×021k7.4k39
41Dec 9, '19Jesus, that is just grim. One of the triumphs of modern tines, being able to treat 27 vastly different countries as home, being repackaged and sold as cheap, small-minded xenophobi2.7×024k5.8k38
42Oct 24, '18This woman is congratulating herself for successfully hunting... a sheep. Jesus wept. What a fuckin’ loser.2.7×026k4k13
43Jan 11, '21Oh this is just a disgrace. Just give families a £30 voucher, and exclude booze, fags, whatever; but don’t pay somebody to insert themselves into the process and cream off a profit2.7×025k4.5k52
44Jan 15, '22Amazing that we’re entering day three of the country’s prime minister pretending to not understand the Covid isolation rules so that he can hide for a while.2.6×027k3.3k33
45Jan 18, '22Oh mate, you should have watched the briefings they had on the telly every day; plus, bonus! there was a guy, the spitting image of you, doing them! You should have seen him! Same 2.6×029k2.4k52
46May 8, '22Look, we’ve all dreamed of seeing a car caught on a rising bollard. Don’t pretend you haven’t.2.4×028k1.1k131
47Jul 1, '22Today a crane came to our street to lift some glass over a house and the man with the crane let me stand next to the crane and ask questions about the crane and he said my question2.4×029k44493
48Mar 21, '23So Boris’ argument is that he was too stupid and ill-informed to understand the rules he was breaking? That’s quite the flex for a Prime Minister.2.4×958k17k2k29
49Jan 16, '22For the people who keep asking why Stargazing Live doesn’t happen any more, this is why. They just don’t have the money any more, and it’s because of this government. The BBC isn’t2.4×023k3.5k66
50Dec 12, '17I’m going to blame Catholicism for this, but any time somebody says “May The Force Be With You” I need the other person to say “And Also with You"2.3×020k4.1k3
51Aug 18, '21This is desperately sad news. Such a brilliantly funny man.2.3×029k55320
52Mar 25, '23I’m scared to post this because it’s almost TOO Irish: filming yesterday at Newgrange, Co Meath, at Europe’s oldest building, when a rainbow appeared above the passage tomb.2.2×889k13k32836
53Jun 29, '20Why aren’t we surrounded by ads normalising masks? Masks with club crests on them, or band names, or Cath Kidson designs? Why aren’t we seeing the words "Brought to you by the MASK2.2×022k2.5k33
54Jan 8, '20Well spotted. That is definitely me, at the back, singing along in the Iranian parliament. I would appreciate your understanding at this difficult time.2.1×024k1.5k51
55Jun 22, '19The astonishing, shameless hypocrisy of this.2.1×019k3.7k50
57Aug 18, '21That’s a classy thing to do, from the Hammersmith Apollo.2.0×025k62415
58Aug 26, '24One final treat from the Edinburgh Fringe. In the seat behind me on the plane home was genuine National Treasure, Miriam Margolyes, and she was exactly as delightful as you would h2.0×818k33k71286
59Sep 26, '20Look, you might all know about this; but I drove past it again today and I think @QPR renaming their entire stadium in honour of a 15 Year old London kid who died in a knife attack2.0×022k1.9k25
60Nov 26, '21Nothing accidental about this. Barry Humphries is a comedy legend; he knows what he’s doing.2.0×022k1.2k502
61Nov 14, '20Amazon Prime have delivered a United Ireland, and before 6pm on the same day.1.9×020k2k115
62Aug 31, '18You know what? Whatever May’s many faults, good for her on the dancing. People are always banging on about “Dance like nobody is watching!” And yet delighted to sneer. I call a mor1.9×019k2.2k9
63Feb 5, '19Amazing that this tweet is still up. It’s been repeatedly corrected; it’s provably factually incorrect, but this person doesn’t care that it is a lie, and is an MP. That’s the stat1.9×016k3.9k30
64Oct 21, '22That’s all folks! “History of Mock The Week” parts 1 and 2 will be on over the next two weeks, but there ends the most funny, energetic, sharp and silly of all the panel shows, I t1.9×021k73339
65Mar 28, '19Just thinking that this might be the perfect time for 7 Sinn Fein MPs to suddenly take their place at Westminster, smash out some votes, tip over a table and then sashay out again.1.8×017k2.5k15
66Feb 23, '18They say never meet your heroes; they are wrong.1.8×020k1.5k0
67Dec 5, '21Great news about that guy I killed in a bar fight Dec 5th last year! Phew!1.8×020k1.4k67
68Dec 8, '21So the same government, that pissed away a sense of national unity on the first lockdown just to protect Dominic Cummings, is now pissing away any chance of a serious response to t1.7×018k1.9k23
69Feb 9, '19And you weren’t voted for by anyone outside Vauxhall. That’s how parliaments work. Please stop embarrassing yourself.1.7×016k2.4k12
70Aug 25, '24Finally got round to climbing Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh yesterday, after 26 years of intending to. Then took a photo that is so weirdly backlit, the entire thing looks fake anyway1.5×621k21k241136
71Jun 4, '20This is deeply stupid. The judgement is that an imaginary person, at some time in the future, might see “You live on in our Hearts”, written in Irish, not understand it, but JUST P1.5×015k1.9k44
72Jul 14, '20All these people complaining about masks, always remind me that during the legendary, mythical, oft-cited blitz in London, there were wardens whose job it was to tell people to tur1.5×015k1.7k28
73Dec 14, '21Mad to think that the Nazis started as a public health drive to curb a pandemic viral infection; and they just got so into it that they decided to start a World War. Something to w1.5×016k1.4k68
74Sep 22, '20Coronavirus at 9.59pm vs Coronavirus at 10.01pm1.5×015k2k18
75May 20, '20Fuck, I would MURDER a pint. And an evening of talking shite with some very old friends. In any one of 6 Dublin pubs. Or each one in turn.1.4×017k49218
76Nov 23, '18YES! I was in pain laughing the entire way through this. IN PAIN.1.4×012k2.2k403
77May 29, '21The rest of the world should know that for the last 24 hours Irish Twitter has become OBSESSSED with how much Matt Le Blanc looks like everyone’s uncle/cousin. Read this thread to 1.4×014k1.6k345
78Jun 1, '20Amidst a day of grim sights, this... silliness... is a tiny delight.1.4×013k1.9k111
79Apr 17, '20Hate to be all Johnny Fact-check here, but actually this happens every night and has for years. They do it so that the hot and cold water in the Thames gets mixed together properly1.4×015k86145
80Jul 11, '21Ah poor Saka. We love that kid. Didn’t deserve that.1.3×017k3705
81Sep 9, '21Finally got the telescope out after a summer of crutches and clouds; had forgotten the sheer amount of rigmarole, but after 3 hours of set-up, finally got to taking pictures again.1.3×016k51891
82May 2, '20Matt Hancock: I am proud to announce I have met my goal. I have finished building the Lego Castle. Matt Hancock’s Mum: Why are there all these unopened bags of Lego on the table?1.3×013k1.8k20
83Nov 28, '21Well, that is just perfect.1.2×014k759139
84Aug 3, '22Have really enjoyed all the chat about Mock today. It’s been really sweet, thank you, and people have been kindly checking I still have work after this. Of course I do! Exciting ne1.2×015k28322
85Jan 6, '21CNN just introduced a reporter called Donie O’Sullivan and fair dues, he sounds exactly like you’d hope.1.1×014k33520
86Dec 23, '21“Cancel culture” conversation is so dull because it’s a conversation about comedy by people who don’t actually seem to know/like anything about comedy; and think it’s only there to1.1×012k95260
87Mar 28, '19And a big hello the guy from Dublin who blagged his way into my dressing room in Eastbourne tonight, while I was in my pants, in order to get a selfie; and is probably telling some1.1×013k4189
88Nov 12, '22Nice touch on Norwegian trains: a special seat and huge window to watch the mountains and lakes go by.1.1×014k18285
89Aug 5, '24Realised today that when we grabbed this photo, @GabbyLogan introduced me to Michael Johnson as “Ireland’s Snoop Dogg” but never explained that this was because I had been at lots 1.1×439k15k37096
90Feb 4, '22Christ. 50. Jesus wept.1.1×012k678
91Oct 14, '22Sky news asking “But what happens to Kwasi Kwarteng now?” as if that is a thing anybody gives a flying fuck about.1.1×012k77811
92May 25, '20Well done everyone in Ireland. I’m sure there will other bad days in the future, but that’s a piece of good news.1.1×013k4877
93Sep 12, '21Watched this crazy sports movie last night, where a schoolgirl from Bromley entered the US Open and then, listen to this for terrible screenwriting, just won every single set strai1.1×013k50825
94Aug 6, '22I’ve been staring at this for a day now. Is it real? Is this genuinely something our possible next Prime minister said? Are “numbers” not proper maths any more? Are “shapes”… woke?1.1×011k1.1k76
95Aug 15, '20In the list of 2020 complaints though, these are a long way behind “Being told by the government that you failed an exam, which you never even sat”, which is still wrecking my head1.0×011k99317
96Jan 16, '22Yes, because the financial equivalent to those 4 television channels and two radio stations all broadcasting 24/7 would be buying a newspaper once every 6 days.1.0×011k74929
97Nov 2, '24Ah, poor Janey Godley. She was a force of nature, she lived the hell out of life, and she will be sorely missed. Love to her family and friends.1.0×402k13k32826
98Apr 22, '25Lovely review of the new tour in The British Comedy Guide this week. It mentions that the previous tour is a good companion piece; if you want to see that show here’s the link to t1.0×402k3251056
99Apr 15, '22Right, you crazy Mountain of Space. I am finally going to ride you, 43 years after my father told me I wasn’t allowed because you were too scary. And the four other times I couldn’1.0×012k9424
100Dec 29, '21I mean, you could have said “The pandemic is like… a heart valve”. Or a water slide. Or a Face tattoo! So many things. But no, you went for the one thing that when you pass through1.0×011k45332
101Aug 3, '24Well that was just incredible. I genuinely don’t think I’ve ever been at a more consistently tense sports event. The margins of error are minuscule. And such a sweet, deserved win.0.9×360k12k19542

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