Dara O'Briain News

COMEDIAN and presenter Dara O'Briain has received his first nomination at this year's Baftas in the entertainment performance category.

"The show is a weird punt. I have no idea if this is Dara's folly and people will go: 'What the..?'" Dara O Briain starts reticently when we discuss School of Hard Sums , but his new series for digital channel Dave doesn't seem like too much of a risk.

Dara O'Briain has described his new maths show as "properly nerdy" and joked that it could become known as "Dara's folly" in years to come.

Some comics take a ponderous pace, carefully building to a crescendo; their act is finely wrought and honed over agonising hours of rehearsal and contemplation.

IRISH comedian Dara O'Briain has become one of our best loved TV faces, writes James Rampton.