Dan Schreiber Explained

Dan Schreiber
Birth Name:Daniel Craig Schreiber
Birth Place:British Hong Kong
Occupation:Podcaster, producer, writer
Notable Works:No Such Thing as a Fish,
The Museum of Curiosity

Daniel Craig Schreiber (born April 28th 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]

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] He became proficient in Mandarin.[7] The Schreibers moved to Sydney, Australia around the time Hong Kong changed from British rule to Chinese rule.[6] He moved to the UK at age 19 after QI creator John Lloyd offered him a job while Schreiber was visiting family in Oxford.[6] He has a sister, Chyna, and a brother.[8] [9]

Career

Schreiber began at the television panel game show QI as a researcher, or "elf", shortly after moving to England.[10] [11] He co-created and co-produces The Museum of Curiosity starting in 2008;[11] [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. 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's The 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]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Wolf. Ian. The Museum of Curiosity – Production Details, Plus Regular Cast and Crew. British Comedy Guide. 12 August 2009.
  2. Web site: Co-host Dan Schreiber on the No Such Thing as a Fish Podcast and Upcoming Tour Nerd Immunity. O'Riordan. Lizzy. 2021-10-04. Left Lion. 6 October 2022.
  3. Schrieberland. 16071721172. @ianwolf I am also, I should add, a Hong Kongian from birth-12. Is Hong Kong in the world cup?. 13 June 2010.
  4. Schreiberland. 16065842777. @ianwolf I'm an Aussie. My dad is Australian & I grew up there from 12–19 (high school) family still live there.. 13 June 2010.
  5. Web site: Dan Schreiber. Fresh From the Fringe. 2012. 7 October 2022.
  6. Web site: Jack of all trades: Dan Schreiber. Smith. Cameron. 10 April 2013. Honi Soil. 7 October 2022.
  7. Web site: Odd facts, being an elf and Chinese stand up comedy. Carling. Andy. 7 September 2014. New Europe. 7 October 2022.
  8. 593016509166944256. Schreiberland. He's dying to get 100 likes. And my mum and brother are dying of embarrassment.. 28 April 2015.
  9. 59561638814158849. Schreiberland. My little sister, Chyna, gave birth to a beautiful baby girl this morning. #bestdayever. 17 April 2011.
  10. Web site: The People Behind QI . . 12 August 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080325031102/http://www.qi.com/about/people.php . 25 March 2008 .
  11. Web site: Dan Schreiber and James Harkin: How we met. Jacques. Adam. Independent. 19 December 2015. 6 October 2022.
  12. Web site: The Museum Of Curiosity. 8 November 2019. British Classic Comedy. 6 October 2022.
  13. Web site: The Cryptid Factor.
  14. Web site: Our Flag Means Death Makes a Gentleman Pirate of Rhys Darby. Sagers. Aaron. 2 March 2022. Den of Geek. 6 October 2022.
  15. News: Podcast Review - No Such Thing As A Fish – Hilariously Informative. 8 October 2021. Hassett. Julie. HeadStuff. 6 October 2022.
  16. Web site: CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?: THE 'NO SUCH THING AS A FISH' PODCAST. Brandel. Christine. 4 April 2017. Pop Matters. 6 October 2022.
  17. Web site: No Such Thing As The News . BBC Two . 2 November 2016.
  18. Web site: No Such Thing As the News. British Comedy Guide. 23 September 2022.
  19. Web site: BBC Radio 4 - Loose Ends, Annie Mac, Winsome Pinnock, Dan Schreiber, The Last Poets, LA Priest, Emma Freud, Clive Anderson. 2020-06-10. BBC. en-GB.
  20. Web site: Alex Scott and Ross Kemp to host new BBC Daytime Quiz formats made in Scotland. 9 July 2021. BBC. 7 October 2022.
  21. Web site: The Tournament. UK Game Shows. 7 October 2022.
  22. Web site: Why comedy video websites fail. British Comedy Guide. 13 August 2014. comedy.co.uk. 12 November 2016.
  23. Web site: Warner Music Entertainment launches comedy channel. econsultancy.com. 12 November 2016. 12 November 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161112144820/https://econsultancy.com/nma-archive/45803-warner-music-entertainment-launches-comedy-channel/. dead.
  24. Web site: John Lloyd launches Comedybox. 13 October 2007 . Blackadder Hall. 7 October 2022.
  25. Web site: Writing Comedy with QI's Dan Schreiber . 24 Sep 2021. WayWord Festival. 7 October 2022.
  26. Web site: Warner to Launch Comedybox. awn.com. 12 November 2016.
  27. Web site: Jack of all trades: Dan Schreiber. April 10, 2013. Honi Soit. 12 November 2016. Honi Soit is the weekly student newspaper of the University of Sydney..
  28. News: Russell. Ken. The Times. My Kitten for Hitler is all in the best bad taste. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110517073350/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article2538424.ece. 17 May 2011. 27 September 2009. 17 August 2009. London. dmy-all.
  29. Web site: Comedy Box (playlist). Bob. Pipe. 17 March 2014. youtube.com. 12 November 2016. 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. Web site: Review: Stand Up for Ugly Animals. 23 October 2014. bristol247.com. 12 November 2016.
  31. Web site: Comic to front alien conspiracy film. 7 August 2014. Chortle. 2022-10-06.
  32. Web site: 9 fascinating facts about the QI Elves. Ling. Thomas. 3 January 2018. RadioTimes. 6 October 2022.
  33. Web site: My Radio Show. British Comedy Guide. 12 August 2009.
  34. Web site: Podcast Festival special: Dan Schreiber. 7 October 2016. Podtail. 6 October 2022.
  35. Web site: Episode 311: Live From the London Podcast Festival. 3 May 2017. Maximum Fun. 6 October 2022.
  36. Web site: Don't Make Me Laugh. 22 December 2015. British Comedy Guide. 6 October 2022.
  37. Web site: Fresh From The Fringe. 2012. British Comedy Guide. 6 October 2022.
  38. Web site: Dan Schreiber: C*ckblocked from Outer Space. 2014. British Comedy Guide. 6 October 2022.
  39. Web site: Dan Schreiber. Champions. 6 October 2022.
  40. Web site: No Such Thing as a Fish. QI. 6 October 2022.
  41. Book: The Theory of Everything Else. Audible. 6 October 2022.
  42. Web site: The Theory of Everything Else by Dan Schreiber. HarperCollins Publishers. 6 October 2022.
  43. Web site: Mr D. Schreiber and Miss F. Bates. 2016-05-10. The Telegraph. 2022-10-06.
  44. Schreiberland. 1564341422786023424. 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..

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