Daniel Craig Schreiber (born 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]

Dan Schreiber's voice

recorded 9 August 2014

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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]

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'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]

Schreiber and his wife Fenella have three sons named Wilf, Ted and Kit.^[43][44]