The Apprentice: You're Fired! host explains about the content of the upcoming programme, and often uses at least one humorous highlight taken from the recent episode of "The Apprentice". Initially, the format of this segment during Adrian Chiles' tenure was to conduct the introduction within the audience before making his way to his seat on the main stage, but this was later changed early into Dara O'Briain's tenure, who simply made the introduction from the main stage; only rarely did he revert to using the previous format for introducing the show. After his departure, the format was altered for Jack Dee's short tenure on
Dara Ó Briain oldest debating society) and the co-founder and co-editor of "The University Observer" college newspaper. In 1994, he won the "Irish Times" National Debating Championship and "The Irish Times"/Gael Linn National Irish language debating championship; he is a fluent Irish speaker, and speaks to his father only in that language. After leaving university, Ó Briain began working at RTÉ as a children's TV presenter. At this time, he also began performing his first stand-up gigs on the Irish comedy circuit. He admitted, "I did the trip from Dublin to Donegal to play to six people; then I turned round and drove