Dara Ó Briain 12Foot6. In 2013, Ó Briain joined Jack Dee, Chelsee Healey, Greg James, Melanie C and Philips Idowu in "Through Hell and High Water", a Comic Relief challenge which involved British celebrities canoeing the most difficult rapids of the Zambezi River. They raised over £1 million for the charity. "Dara and Ed's Great Big Adventure", a 2015 three-part fly-on-the-wall television series, followed Ó Briain and Ed Byrne on their journey by car down the Pan-American Highway. In June 2015, "Dara Ó Briain Meets Stephen Hawking", in which Ó Briain travels to Cambridge for a series of interviews with theoretical physicist Stephen
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