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 voted the 16th greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4's "100 Greatest Stand-Ups". Ó Briain was born in 1972 in Bray, County Wicklow, and attended Coláiste Eoin secondary school, a "Gaelcholáiste" (Irish-speaking medium school) on Dublin's southside. He attended University College, Dublin (UCD), where he studied mathematics, chemistry and theoretical physics. In 2008, he remarked: "I haven't written it into my act, but it occasionally comes through. I could come on with a chalkboard and say: 'Now you're all going to pay attention. While a student at UCD, he was both the auditor of the Literary and Historical Society (the university's