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Dan Schreiber
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Born
Daniel Craig Schreiber

28 April 1984 (1984-04-28) (age 40)
British Hong Kong
Occupation(s)Podcaster, producer, writer
Notable work No Such Thing as a Fish ,
The Museum of Curiosity
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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 c. 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

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    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.
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    10. ↑ @Schreiberland (17 April 2011). "My little sister, Chyna, gave birth to a beautiful baby girl this morning. #bestdayever" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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