Daniel Craig Schreiber (born 1984) is an Australian radio producer, writer,
podcast
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er, and comedian based in
London
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. He co-created the
BBC Radio 4
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panel show
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''
The Museum of Curiosity
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'' with host
John Lloyd and co-producer
Richard Turner and co-hosts the
podcast
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''
No Such Thing As A Fish
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''.
Early life
Schreiber was born c. 1984 in
British Hong Kong
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to an
Australia
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n father and a
British
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mother, both of whom worked as celebrity hairdressers.
He became proficient in Mandarin
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. The Schreibers moved to Sydney
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, Australia around the time Hong Kong changed from British rule to Chinese rule.[ He moved to the UK at age 19 after '' QI'' creator John Lloyd offered him a job while Schreiber was visiting family in ]Oxford
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.[ He has a sister, Chyna, and a brother.
]
Career
Schreiber began at the television panel game show '' QI'' as a researcher, or "elf", shortly after moving to England. He co-created and co-produces ''The Museum of Curiosity
''The Museum of Curiosity'' is a comedy talk show on BBC Radio 4 that was first broadcast on 20 February 2008. It is hosted by John Lloyd (Professor of Ignorance at the University of Buckingham, and later at Solent University). He acts as the ...
'' starting in 2008;[ co-hosts the ]cryptozoology
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-focused podcast ''The Cryptid Factor'' with Rhys Darby
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, David Farrier
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and producer Leon 'Buttons' Kirkbeck starting in 2013; and co-created, co-hosts, and co-produces the podcast ''No Such Thing As A Fish
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'' alongside James Harkin James Harkin may refer to:
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* James Harkin (podcaster)
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, Andrew Hunter Murray
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Murray went to school at King's College School in Wimbledon. He went on to study English Literature at Keble College, Oxford.
Career
Murray is a ...
and Anna Ptaszynski
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starting in 2014. Schreiber also appeared as a panelist and presenter on the BBC panel show ''No Such Thing as the News
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'', a spin-off of the ''No Such Thing As a Fish'' podcast. The program's two series aired in 2016. While staying at his in-laws' house during the COVID-19 pandemic
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, 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. On 6 June 2020, Schreiber was featured on the BBC Radio 4
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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.
After five seasons working for QI, Schreiber started as head of development for ComedyBox, an online channel from Warner
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, which financially supported comedy projects and provided a forum for comedians to share their content. There, he executive produced Ken Russell's short Christmas film '' A Kitten for Hitler'' and ''Flight of the Conchords
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'' star Rhys Darby
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's ComedyBox clips and stand-up DVD ''Imagine That!'' As a stand-up comedian in his own right, 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
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was his show Cockblocked From Outer Space in 2014. In 2015, he was the presenter in the Channel 4 documentary ''The Great UFO Conspiracy'', which examined beliefs about aliens in the UK.[ Since hosting the cancelled pilot of his own radio show, which featured guests Rhys Darby, John Lloyd, ]Ismo Leikola
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, and John Gribbin in 2009 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
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''.
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. He released his first stand-alone book, ''The Theory of Everything Else: A Voyage Into the World of the Weird'', in October 2022.
Personal life
Schreiber and his wife Fenella have three sons named Wilf, Ted and Kit.
Notes
References
External links
Schreiber's blogspot
inactive since 2012
Dan Schreiber's 2014 CV
(archived)
Dan Schreiber's
blog at posterous (archived)
Dan Schreiber's
Twitter page.
''The Museum of Curiosity's''
Twitter page, updated by Schreiber.
Me and You 2
- Schreiber's radio pilot
Me and You 2
- Schreiber's radio pilot Twitter page
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Living people
BBC people
Australian radio producers
Australian radio writers
Australian television writers
Australian film producers
British radio producers
British radio writers
British male television writers
British film producers
1984 births
Hong Kong emigrants to Australia
Australian people of Austrian descent
Hong Kong people of Australian descent
Hong Kong people of Austrian descent
Australian male television writers