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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 13h

I thought we were. Will check that.

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It would certainly make things easier for everyone who thinks you’re the same person already.

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Particularly since there is no “v” in the Irish language.

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ah thanks for that. Yeah, we’re really enjoying it. Although all the news stories have gone apocalyptic, which is weird.

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oof. That’s a really awkward double-up, especially if anyone runs over in Manchester and you miss the train.

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ah, delighted you enjoyed it. Yep, that’s a hell of a moment. Not fun when it happened, but lots of fun to deliver every night! Lovely to hear from you!

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

No, that’s Sorcha. Different name.

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Every time, I think he’s going to fluff it. Start giggling, drop a word, something. Every time. And no, nails it every time.

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I know. I think it was because Stargazing was presented in edited form on BBC US and they may have trimmed out the more substantial content. Or maybe he just hate Mancs?

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Nah, he was always weirdly cunty about Stargazing, and Brian. A pity, because I like his stuff.

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Oh, thank heavens, i just wrote essentially the same thing to you now, as I did then!

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I really enjoyed it; and found it interesting to see a British writer on a topic (comedy/free speech) that so much writing tends to over-state the importance of (IMO) and get quickly pompous about. Must dig it out.

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Happy to make the change. Ed noticed immediately during the recording yesterday, to his credit.

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Oh, hadn’t heard of this, thank you. Loved the Raoul Moat book.

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ha! So happy the number of people who got that reference.

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Chortle @chortle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Ooh, 9pm, we go again. Again. Brand new Mock the Week on TLC!

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is always a great night of comedy and for a brilliant cause!

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Chortle @chortle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Was about to send those EXACT words. You win this one, Larry.

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It means that what you are doing is timely, or apt; the event or date referred to would be known to everyone. Like, if you posted a favourite Christmas song on Dec 25th, that would be “for the day that’s in it”, and not need other explanation.

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

For the night that’s in it, a photo of Princess Anne shielding her ears from the noise of the crowd when Katie Taylor won the Gold at London 2012.

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Ah well done Katie Taylor. You’ve done the town proud. #bray

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

At least they eventually finished the church.

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

There is no top level at all. And so there is no giant screen and they have to use the advertising hoarding for everything, which is just a narrow strip, obviously, so hilariously, they really go big on the player’s eyes.

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Went to the Camp Nou tonight. I sorta knew it wasn’t finished but wasn’t aware it was THIS unfinished.

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

That was brilliant. I will never sleep, in a park, again.

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Will you be doing all your swearing?

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Okay. Haven’t done Lucky shot in aaaages… trying to even remember be what software I used to use on Mac to do it. Siril, I think. On a PC would you use Autostakkert?

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Tech question for Astro people: can you stack eclipse photos, and is it “lucky shot” and then wavelets, like planetary, or added and aligned like deep space targets? Have a bunch of bracketed shots, and want to experiment…

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

That’s how I transport my jokes on tour. A huge fucking truckload of them.

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

While all eclipses are fun, this one will be relatively late in the day and low in the sky, and totality will be only 1’30”. Some amazing ones coming up tho: 6’22” of totality over Luxor next August, and 3 mins over Sydney in 2028. If you’d me and Brian to host that one, I think we’d be delighted.

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It certainly did in 2015 when we did three days of Stargazing Live around the eclipse including live coverage of Totality from a plane looping over the Faroe Islands. Plus, we were in Jodrell. Different times, baby.

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I know you prefer his later, more commercial work.

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

This isn’t really his vibe either, to be honest.

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

It remains genuinely hilarious that people think this quote is WB Yeats. This is on the wall in Kilkenny Design in Dublin, by the way. Bit of a lurch in tone from "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Praise be! Take 35 minutes to enjoy the somebody taking incredible care about making something both very beautiful and utterly ridiculous.

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Ross literally the told me story in the Pleasance courtyard, giddily, and now I have to question the nature of memory every time I hear it. Plus, I probably tightened it up a bit myself, retelling it there…

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

On crack, not on a crack, whatever the fuck that would mean…

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Anyway, I’m going to stop correcting it now, because it is our Aristocrats.

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Nicholas was ashen-faced, and said, “Oh my. I have known Richard for 40 years and he never mentioned that” Double hit: Nicholas thought briers was on a crack AND, briefly, Noble thought Parsons was an old friend of Richard Pryor.

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Ha! Even he gets it wrong! Ross was explaining the lore of Blazing Saddles to Nicholas, because he chose it as favourite comedy movie for an Edinburgh show. Amidst this, he added, “of course, Richard Pryor was supposed to be in it, but had just set fire to his hair, while freebasing cocaine…” and…

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Having heard this, literally on the day, it’s so funny to watch this story mutate over the years. How did it become a Barry Cryer story? Barry didn’t feature in the actual event at all!

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Went to see @operationmincemeat.bsky.social last night and, this is pretty old news, but it was amazing. Brilliantly performed as well. Plus, what a mad theatre the Fortune is… All the parts of an normal Edwardian theatre, squeezed into a tiny footprint.

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