It must take Dara O’Briain twice as long as most performers to write a one-hour show because, with his rapid, staccato delivery, he fits at least twice as many gags in there.
O’Briain is already an accomplished comic with a fairly decent following and television career behind him but expect him to go stellar in the next 12 months or so.
Already a guest on Parkinson and a memorable guest presenter of Have I Got News For You, he recently hosted the less than memorable Mock the Week.
His delivery is relentless. His shows could be represented as one, huge sentence with no punctuation whatsoever.
When he asks a question of the audience, this big man stares at them menacingly, almost trying to suck a response out of them with his eyes. The audience is attending the court of O’Briain.
The material itself, while enjoyable, chatty and gentle, is not particularly memorable - based around an extension of the list he submitted to Room 101 earlier this year - but O’Briain is about O’Briain the personality, not what that person has to say.
And in the world of television presenting, that is the key to the big man becoming even bigger.
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