Mark Dolan

Mark Dolan (born 17 March 1974) is an English comedian, writer, and television and radio presenter.

Mark Dolan
Mark Dolan, Glastonbury Festival, 2019
Born (1974-03-17) 17 March 1974
Camden, London, England
EducationUniversity of Edinburgh
Years active2000–present
Genresimprovisation
Children2
Websitemarkdolan.com

Early life

Dolan attended the University of Edinburgh and performed in the improvisational comedy troupe The Improverts[1].

Career

Television

Dolan was the host of Channel 4 show Balls of Steel, which he presented from 2005 until the show's end in 2008. He was also the presenter of Channel 4 Radio's satirical show The Weekly Show, and the TV documentary series The World's (Something) And Me, where he meets "the world's most extraordinary people", such as The World's Hairiest Person and The World's Strongest Child.

Dolan first came to the public's attention in 2002 after writing and performing in a Comedy Lab entitled The Richard Taylor Interviews.[2]

In 2006, Dolan helped launch More4 as the host of The Last Word, a nightly topical discussion show. He has also fronted shows for E4, including its launch comedy series, Show Me The Funny, and provides his voice as presenter of a new series for Five called Urban Legends. Dolan was the presenter for Sky Movies' weekly movie-news show 35mm[3] and Channel 4's The Mad Bad Ad Show.

In February 2013, Dolan took part in the fifth series of Let's Dance for Comic Relief as a member of "Destiny's Dad" alongside fellow stand up comedians Hal Cruttenden and Shaun Keaveny.[4]

In 2015, Dolan co-hosted If Katie Hopkins Ruled the World with British reality TV personality Katie Hopkins.[5]

Stand-up comedy

Dolan started as a stand-up comedian in 2000, reaching the final of Channel 4's So You Think You're Funny competition in his first year of performing. He currently has a Saturday night residency at Soho’s Amused Moose Comedy Club.[6]

At the Edinburgh Fringe Festival at The Gilded Balloon in 2007, Dolan performed his one-man show I'm Here To Help![7]

Radio

Dolan presented a breakfast show on Fubar Radio, an online radio station based in London.[8]

gollark: `L` - jump backward one instruction.
gollark: Can you post Lyric's Law? It appears to not be on the starboard.
gollark: Looping construct: jump backward one instruction (`L`)Branching construct: pick next instruction or previous instruction (`B`) - next if accumulator > 0, previous if accumulator <= 0.New branching construct: pick next instruction if user types `0` or previous if user types anything else (`N`)Making loop non-infinite: `E`, exits program if accumulator < 0.+1/-1 act on an accumulator initialized at zero (`+`/`-`)A program consists of a sequence of these instructions (first line) and arbitrary data encoded in base64 (second line) which is loaded into linear memory as bytes. These are executed left-to-right until the end is reached; when this occurs the direction of execution will be reversed.Infinite arbitrary data: command (`D`) to set accumulator to value of linear memory at position in accumulator.This language is called "HahaYourLawIsBad".
gollark: Hmm...
gollark: 124 wwwwwwwwwww123

References
  1. Herald Scotland
  2. "The Richard Taylor Interviews". 15 January 2003 – via IMDb.
  3. "35mm".
  4. "Desiny's Dad".
  5. "Telegraph Review".
  6. Amused Moose
  7. Roberts, John. "Mark Dolan Changes the World – Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh". The Reviews Hub.
  8. "Mark Dolan Eats the News". Fubar Radio.
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