Dan Schreiber

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Dan Schreiber
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Schreiber at Waterstones, London in 2023
Born
Daniel Craig Schreiber

28 April 1984 (1984-04-28) (age 41)
British Hong Kong
Occupation(s)Podcaster, producer, writer
Notable work No Such Thing as a Fish ,
The Museum of Curiosity
Dan Schreiber's voice
Recorded 9 August 2014

Daniel Craig Schreiber (born 28 April 1984) is an Australian radio producer, writer, podcaster, and comedian based in London. He co-created the BBC Radio 4 panel show The Museum of Curiosity with host John Lloyd and co-producer Richard Turner [1] and co-hosts the podcast No Such Thing As A Fish . [2]

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Early life

Schreiber was born in 1984 in British Hong Kong to an Australian father and a British mother, both of whom worked as celebrity hairdressers. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] He became proficient in Mandarin. [8] The Schreibers moved to Sydney, Australia around the time Hong Kong changed from British rule to Chinese rule. [7] He moved to the UK at age 19 after QI creator John Lloyd offered him a job while Schreiber was visiting family in Oxford. [7] He has a sister, Chyna, and a brother. [9] [10]

Career

Schreiber began at the television panel game show QI as a researcher, or "elf", shortly after moving to England. [11] [6] He co-created and co-produces The Museum of Curiosity starting in 2008; [6] [12] co-hosts the cryptozoology-focused podcast The Cryptid Factor with Rhys Darby, David Farrier and producer Leon 'Buttons' Kirkbeck starting in 2013; [13] [14] and co-created, co-hosts, and co-produces the podcast No Such Thing As A Fish alongside James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray and Anna Ptaszynski starting in 2014. [15] [16] Schreiber also appeared as a panelist and presenter on the BBC panel show No Such Thing as the News , a spin-off of the No Such Thing As a Fish podcast. The program's two series aired in 2016. [17] [18] While staying at his in-laws' house during the COVID-19 pandemic, Schreiber created Show Us Your Shit (also known as Show Us Your Shit (or: Some Shakespeare, A Pair of Pyjamas & A Mutton Chop)), an Instagram Live series. Each episode features a different guest who shows Schreiber and the audience a selection of interesting objects from around their home. [19] On 6 June 2020, Schreiber was featured on the BBC Radio 4 series Loose Ends to discuss Show Us Your Shit. [19] In 2021, The Tournament , a show devised by Schreiber along with James Rawson and Simon Urwin, aired on BBC hosted by Alex Scott. [20] [21]

After five seasons working for QI, Schreiber started as head of development for ComedyBox, [22] [23] an online channel from Warner, which financially supported comedy projects and provided a forum for comedians to share their content. [24] [25] [26] [27] There, he executive produced Ken Russell's short Christmas film A Kitten for Hitler [28] and Flight of the Conchords star Rhys Darby's ComedyBox clips [29] and stand-up DVD Imagine That! As a stand-up comedian in his own right, [30] Schreiber has toured with FolkFace from Radio 1's Chris Moyles Show and was a regular panelist on the E4 show Dirty Digest. Schreiber's comic debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe was his show Cockblocked From Outer Space in 2014. [31] In 2015, he was the presenter in the Channel 4 documentary The Great UFO Conspiracy, which examined beliefs about aliens in the UK. [31] [32] Since hosting the cancelled pilot of his own radio show, which featured guests Rhys Darby, John Lloyd, Ismo Leikola, and John Gribbin in 2009 [33] Schreiber has also been a guest on BBC Radio 4's Don't Make Me Laugh with David Baddiel and Fresh From The Fringe as well as a variety of podcasts including Judge John Hodgman and Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast . [34] [35] [36] [37]

Schreiber has also contributed to a number of books, including The Naked Jape by Jimmy Carr; the QI spinoffs The Book of General Ignorance and G Annual; and No Such Thing as a Fish'sThe Book of the Year series. [38] [39] [40] He released his first stand-alone book, The Theory of Everything Else: A Voyage Into the World of the Weird, in October 2022. [41] [42]

Personal life

Schreiber and his wife Fenella have three sons named Wilf, Ted and Kit. [43] [44]

Notes

    References

    1. ↑ Wolf, Ian. "The Museum of Curiosity – Production Details, Plus Regular Cast and Crew". British Comedy Guide . Retrieved 12 August 2009.
    2. ↑ O'Riordan, Lizzy (4 October 2021). "Co-host Dan Schreiber on the No Such Thing as a Fish Podcast and Upcoming Tour Nerd Immunity". Left Lion. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
    3. ↑ @Schrieberland (13 June 2010). "@ianwolf I am also, I should add, a Hong Kongian from birth-12. Is Hong Kong in the world cup?" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
    4. ↑ @Schreiberland (13 June 2010). "@ianwolf I'm an Aussie. My dad is Australian & I grew up there from 12–19 (high school) family still live there" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
    5. ↑ "Dan Schreiber". Fresh From the Fringe. 2012. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
    6. 1 2 3 Jacques, Adam (19 December 2015). "Dan Schreiber and James Harkin: How we met". Independent. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
    7. 1 2 3 Smith, Cameron (10 April 2013). "Jack of all trades: Dan Schreiber". Honi Soil. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
    8. ↑ Carling, Andy (7 September 2014). "Odd facts, being an elf and Chinese stand up comedy". New Europe. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
    9. ↑ @Schreiberland (28 April 2015). "He's dying to get 100 likes. And my mum and brother are dying of embarrassment" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
    10. ↑ @Schreiberland (17 April 2011). "My little sister, Chyna, gave birth to a beautiful baby girl this morning. #bestdayever" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
    11. ↑ "The People Behind QI". QI. Archived from the original on 25 March 2008. Retrieved 12 August 2009.
    12. ↑ "The Museum Of Curiosity". British Classic Comedy. 8 November 2019. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
    13. ↑ "The Cryptid Factor".
    14. ↑ Sagers, Aaron (2 March 2022). "Our Flag Means Death Makes a Gentleman Pirate of Rhys Darby". Den of Geek. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
    15. ↑ Hassett, Julie (8 October 2021). "Podcast Review - No Such Thing As A Fish – Hilariously Informative". HeadStuff. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
    16. ↑ Brandel, Christine (4 April 2017). "CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?: THE 'NO SUCH THING AS A FISH' PODCAST". Pop Matters. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
    17. ↑ "No Such Thing As The News". BBC Two. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
    18. ↑ "No Such Thing As the News". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 23 September 2022.
    19. 1 2 "BBC Radio 4 - Loose Ends, Annie Mac, Winsome Pinnock, Dan Schreiber, The Last Poets, LA Priest, Emma Freud, Clive Anderson". BBC. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
    20. ↑ "Alex Scott and Ross Kemp to host new BBC Daytime Quiz formats made in Scotland". BBC. 9 July 2021. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
    21. ↑ "The Tournament". UK Game Shows. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
    22. ↑ British Comedy Guide (13 August 2014). "Why comedy video websites fail". comedy.co.uk. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
    23. ↑ "Warner Music Entertainment launches comedy channel". econsultancy.com. Archived from the original on 12 November 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
    24. ↑ "John Lloyd launches Comedybox". Blackadder Hall. 13 October 2007. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
    25. ↑ "Writing Comedy with QI's Dan Schreiber". WayWord Festival. 24 September 2021. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
    26. ↑ "Warner to Launch Comedybox". awn.com. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
    27. ↑ "Jack of all trades: Dan Schreiber". Honi Soit. 10 April 2013. Retrieved 12 November 2016. Honi Soit is the weekly student newspaper of the University of Sydney.
    28. ↑ Russell, Ken (27 September 2009). "My Kitten for Hitler is all in the best bad taste". The Times . London. Archived from the original on 17 May 2011. Retrieved 17 August 2009.
    29. ↑ Pipe, Bob (17 March 2014). "Comedy Box (playlist)" . Retrieved 12 November 2016– via youtube.com. I was in-house producer/director at Warner's ComedyBox.tv from 2007-2009. We later became MySpace Comedy. I shot, edited, produced and/or directed hundreds of comedy sketches. Here's a few of them
    30. ↑ "Review: Stand Up for Ugly Animals". bristol247.com. 23 October 2014. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
    31. 1 2 "Comic to front alien conspiracy film". Chortle. 7 August 2014. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
    32. ↑ Ling, Thomas (3 January 2018). "9 fascinating facts about the QI Elves". RadioTimes. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
    33. ↑ "My Radio Show". British Comedy Guide . Retrieved 12 August 2009.
    34. ↑ "Podcast Festival special: Dan Schreiber". Podtail. 7 October 2016. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
    35. ↑ "Episode 311: Live From the London Podcast Festival". Maximum Fun. 3 May 2017. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
    36. ↑ "Don't Make Me Laugh". British Comedy Guide. 22 December 2015. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
    37. ↑ "Fresh From The Fringe". British Comedy Guide. 2012. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
    38. ↑ "Dan Schreiber: C*ckblocked from Outer Space". British Comedy Guide. 2014. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
    39. ↑ "Dan Schreiber". Champions. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
    40. ↑ "No Such Thing as a Fish". QI. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
    41. ↑ The Theory of Everything Else. Audible. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
    42. ↑ "The Theory of Everything Else by Dan Schreiber". HarperCollins Publishers. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
    43. ↑ "Mr D. Schreiber and Miss F. Bates". The Telegraph. 10 May 2016. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
    44. ↑ @Schreiberland (29 August 2022). "Bought a vintage 1980s SuperTed poster for my two boys, Wilf (4) and Ted (2). Lot of debate happening in the Schreiber household tonight about who this present is really for" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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