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 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