Dara Ó Briain (1972) Irish comedian and television presenter
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“He must be out of his tiny Chinese mind.”
Attacking Ian Mikardo, a left-wing critic of spending cuts, using a phrase of the comedienne Hermione Gingold (The Daily Telegraph, 24 February, 1976), quoted in Denis Healey The Time of My Life (Penguin, 1990), p. 444
1970s
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