History Creator / DaraOBriain

* ZettaiRyouiki: Discussed during a bit where he apologized to women for the weird lengths they have to go to to turn men on.
-->''(gestures to the middle of his thigh)'' "This is where the sexy is!"

* ReligionTropes: Occasionally brought up, such as how the Christmas Nativity is unfair when Atheists would rather watch children [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1rnqaXZC5w remake other winter stories]]:
-->There are lots of Christmas stories they could do. They could do ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', a delightful Christmas story. ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife''. ''Film/DieHard''. [[RuleOfThree Die Hard is one of our finest and most beloved Christmas tales!]] %% Can someone please find the trope needed, then do something like; XyzAbc: Brought up along with other relegion tropes; (rest of text)

* {{Improv}}: The audience participation bits, naturally, though he takes it a step further by actively encouraging them to lie and give him better material.

Dara Ó Briain ([[NoPronunciationGuide Pronounced Oh Bree-Ann]], born 4 February 1972) is an Irish stand up comedian famous throughout the UK and his homeland. Beginning as a children's television presenter, Dara is now known for presenting ''Series/MockTheWeek'', ''[[Series/TheApprentice The Apprentice UK - You're Fired!]]'', as well as a few {{Edutainment Show}}s ''School of Hard Sums'' and ''Stargazing Live'', as well as his own show ''[[ScienceShow Dara Ó Briain's Science Club]]'', and in 2016 he became the new host of the UnCancelled ''Series/RobotWars'' and ''Go 8 Bit''. He's also an occasional guest on ''Series/{{QI}}''. Most recently he's the host of the newest revival of ''Series/{{Blockbusters}}'' on Creator/ComedyCentral.

* TemptingFate: He notes that one thing you should never do is tell a comedian not to do something. For example, upon doing a gig where a certain celebrity was present, he was warned not to do material about a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-injunctions_in_English_law super-injunction]]; a super-injunction is a legal injunction that cannot be publicized, meaning Dara obviously had zero idea about it prior to being warned of it, ''[[StreisandEffect and he promptly started to make light of it]].''

*** Dara, however, got his own back when he quickly retorted "[[TakeThat I think of you as friends, I don't think of you as comedians!]]"

* RaisedCatholic:
-->''I'm not a religious man, right, I don't even believe in God. But still Catholic, obviously.''

* BaldOfAwesome

* MalignedMixedMarriage: Exaggeratd in his bit about a catholic-protestant mixed marriage:

-->There are lots of Christmas stories they could do. They could do ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', a delightful Christmas story. ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife''. ''Film/DieHard''. [[RuleOfThree Die Hard is one of our finest and most beloved Christmas tales!]] %% Can someone please not the trope needed XyzAbc: Brought up along with other relegion tropes; (rest of text)

* ReligionTropes: Occasionally brought up, such as how the Christmas Nativity is unfair when Atheists would rather watch children [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1rnqaXZC5w remake other winter stories]]:
-->There are lots of Christmas stories they could do. They could do ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', a delightful Christmas story. ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife''. ''Film/DieHard''. [[RuleOfThree Die Hard is one of our finest and most beloved Christmas tales!]]

-->We already have a 3 blade razor, what do we need a 5 blade razor for? Does blade 4 shave of a thin layer of epidermis, then blade 5 cauterizes the wound so that no beard hair will ever grow there again? Do in need to unlock blade 5 by [[BossFight defeating a boss]] on blade 4?

* ShavingisScience: He has a joke pointing out the level of absurdity that goes into advertising men's razors:

-->[Neutrinos] can't mutate. Their structure is fundamental to the structure of the universe. Right? They can't just change. He might as well have gone, "The electrons are angry!".

Dara Ó Briain ([[NoPronunciationGuide Pronounced Oh Bree-Ann]], born 4 February 1972) is an Irish stand up comedian famous throughout the UK and his homeland. Beginning as a children's television presenter, Dara is now known for presenting ''Series/MockTheWeek'', ''[[Series/TheApprentice The Apprentice UK - You're Fired!]]'', as well as a few {{Edutainment Show}}s ''School of Hard Sums'' and ''Stargazing Live'', as well as his own show ''[[ScienceShow Dara Ó Briain's Science Club]]'', and in 2016 he became the new host of the UnCancelled ''Series/RobotWars'' and ''Go 8 Bit''. He's also an occasional guest on ''Series/{{QI}}''.

[[caption-width-right:350:[-People say "Science doesn't know everything!" -- Science knows it doesn't know, ''otherwise it'd stop.''-] ]]

-->'''James Acaster''': Oh, is it like when you stole the Moon in ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe''?

If the excess of educational shows and his nerdy routine wasn't clear enough, Dara is unsurprisingly both [[OneOfUs a massive nerd and gamer]]; even stacking atop this, he speaks fluent [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_language Irish]] and has studied mathematics and theoretical physics ''([[SelfDeprecation despite looking like a Russian gangster]]).'' He was actually on track to become an astronomer before discovering how much he loved performing, and has written children's books about the subject.

* OneOfUs: [[invoked]]Despite [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] he doesn't look the type, he's a huge video game nerd.

[[caption-width-right:350:[-People say "Science doesn't know everything!" -- Science knows it doesn't know, ''otherwise it'd stop.''-] ]]

* AllCrimesAreEqual: When it comes to pseudo-science and superstition, he despises all parties equally:
-->''I would take homeopaths and I'd put them in a big sack with psychics, astrologers and priests. And I'd close the top of the sack with string, and I'd hit them all with sticks. And I really wouldn't be bothered who got the worst of the belt of the sticks.''

* RaisedCatholic:
-->''I'm not a religious man, right, I don't even believe in God. But still Catholic, obviously.''
* ReligionTropes: Occasionally brought up, such as how the Christmas Nativity is unfair when Atheists would rather watch children [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1rnqaXZC5w remake other winter stories]]:
-->There are lots of Christmas stories they could do. They could do ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', a delightful Christmas story. ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife''. ''Film/DieHard''. [[RuleOfThree Die Hard is one of our finest and most beloved Christmas tales!]]
* RupturedAppendix: One of three things that causes him to seriously doubt the Christian story that God created humans in his own image (the others being the general visual dullness of people compared to mountains and sunsets, and our occasionally biting the inside of our mouths).

If the excess of educational shows and his nerdy routine wasn't clear enough, Dara is unsurprisingly both [[OneOfUs a massive nerd and gamer]]; even stacking atop this, he speaks fluent [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_language Irish]] and has studied mathematics and theoretical physics ''([[SelfDeprecation despite looking like a Russian gangster]]).''