Dan Schreiber (producer)


Daniel Indiana "Dan" Craig Schreiber is a radio producer living in the United Kingdom and is also a writer for radio and television. He co-created the BBC Radio 4 panel show The Museum of Curiosity with host John Lloyd and co-producer Richard Turner, and co-hosts the podcast No Such Thing As A Fish and its television spin-off No Such Thing as the News.

Early life

The son of an Australian father, Schreiber was born and raised in Hong Kong, where he became proficient in Mandarin. He relocated to Australia at age 12, and then moved to the United Kingdom at 19.

Career

Schreiber is one of the researchers, or "elves", for the television panel game QI. On 30 July 2009, Schreiber hosted an unnamed radio pilot which was performed in a manner similar to a radio breakfast show. He has contributed to a number of books including The Naked Jape by Jimmy Carr and the QI spinoffs The Book of General Ignorance and G Annual. Schreiber also appears as a panellist and presenter on the BBC panel show No Such Thing as the News.
After five seasons working for QI, Schreiber headed up an online start-up called ComedyBox at Warner. "The whole idea of ComedyBox was to fund people who wouldn’t be given money by TV stations, to make comedy sketches." There, Schreiber executive produced Ken Russell's short Christmas film A Kitten for Hitler, and Flight of the Conchords star Rhys Darby's ComedyBox clips and stand-up DVD: Imagine That!
As a stand-up comedian, Schreiber has toured with FolkFace from Radio 1's Chris Moyles Show and is a regular panelist on the E4 show Dirty Digest.
In 2016 he hosted No Such Thing as the News alongside James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray and Anna Ptaszynski on BBC Two. It is a television spin-off of the No Such Thing as a Fish podcast, in which the four QI Elves discuss their favourite facts that they have learned that week.

Show Us Your Shit

Show Us Your Shit is an Instagram Live series created and presented by Dan Schreiber. Each episode features a different guest who shows Schreiber and the audience a selection of interesting objects from around their home.
Schreiber created the show whilst staying at his in-laws' house during the COVID-19 pandemic.
On 6 June 2020, Schreiber was featured on the BBC Radio 4 series Loose Ends to discuss Show Us Your Shit.