Danny Robins is a presenter, comedian, writer and journalist. He has appeared in numerous TV and Radio shows and performs live regularly.

He made his TV presenting debut fronting the controversial and much talked about ‘Let's Make A Baby for BBC 3's ‘Mischief’ season - where he fooled the television industry by creating a fake reality show that promised to conceive the world's first Reality TV baby.

Since then, he has gone on to appear on various TV programmes including BBC 2's ‘The Culture Show’, for whom he has undertaken several challenges, including attempting to watch all of Shakespeare's plays in one month, becoming a Goth and exploring the New Folk Scene. He has also facilitated some prestigious interviews for The Culture Show, including Sir Patrick Moore to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of 'The Sky at Night' and, very excitingly, a rare interview with Morrissey. Most recently Danny has been presenting for the Travel Channel which has involved him visiting Utah and looking at the history of the Mormons and Native Americans. He is about to embark on a trip to South Korea which he is very excited about.

Other TV work includes BBC 3's ‘The Bullsh*t Detective’, where he exposed fake psychics and crystal healers, and a second ‘Mischief’ film, ‘The Great Sperm Crisis’, for which Danny toured the UK attempting to convince men to become sperm donors. Amazingly, he did single handedly raise the number of donors.

Danny recently made his own Radio 4 series, ‘Danny Robins: Music Therapy’ and is a regular on Radio 4, equally at home making people laugh or in his guise as cultural commentator and reviewer on shows such as ‘Front Row’ and ‘Saturday Review’. He can be heard on ‘Jon Ronson On’ and recently presented the documentary Papal Ball about a football tournament of priests at the Vatican, also for Radio 4.

As a comedy writer/performer, he was nominated for a Sony Radio Award as part of the critically acclaimed sketch show ‘The Museum of Everything’, along with his co-stars Marcus Brigstocke and Dan Tetsell. Other work includes presenting Radio 4's Live 8 backstage coverage, three series of ‘That Was Then This Is Now’ for Radio 2, guest appearance on Steve Lamacq's 6Music show, many appearances on 5Live and fronting his own series ‘Oneclick/Comedy late night on Radio 1 - including such highlights as holding a music festival in his flat, interviewing alien abductees and bodypopping with Natalie Imbruglia. Having appeared on Radios 1, 2, 4 and 5, Danny just needs to get on Radio 3 for the full set!
In the world of podcasts, Danny presented a series exploring unexplained mysteries called ‘Danny Robins Investigates’ for Channel 4 Radio and hosted ‘The Knowledge Podcast’ for The Times newspaper, a weekly discussion programme covering arts, film and music.

As a writer, Danny's work has been broadcast all over the world and he has worked with such comedy greats as Ronnie Barker, Armando Iannucci and Basil Brush. With his writing partner, Dan Tetsell he has created and written many comedy shows, including Radio 4's ‘Paperback Hell and ‘Rudy's Rare Records’, starring Lenny Henry, BBC 4's ‘This Is Genius’ and two series of the cult show ‘We Are History’ for BBC 2 (which they also appeared in). They have also won a Welsh BAFTA and an RTS Award for their Children's BBC series ‘Young Dracula’.

Danny also performs live all over the country and internationally. 2005 saw his first ever solo show, DJ Danny, performed to sell out crowds and great reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe and London's Soho Theatre. He returned in the character of DJ Danny, a teacher by day and a DJ by night, at the 2006 Fringe, again achieving full houses and rave write ups. In 2008, he was back at the fringe with Dannyfest - a one man Glastonbury style festival. He also regularly hosts ‘Pubstock’ at The Albany Pub in London - a festival in a pub.

In the line of duty, Danny has hung out with gun enthusiasts in Iowa, gone ghost-hunting in the Cotswolds, spotted UFOs in Scotland, come second in the UK Air Guitar Championship Final (he was cheated), learned to be a cowboy, been seen every morning on BBC 1's ‘Stitch Up’, been picked out as a young talent to watch by The Independent and seen his drum and bass remix of James Blunt's Goodbye My Lover receive huge airplay including daily on ‘The Chris Moyles Show’. He also bizarrely once had a Number 11 chart hit, but that's a long story - ask him about it when you see him.

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Accents : Native RP, Geordie, Cockney, West Country, General Northern, Russian, French, General American. Speaks Swedish

Stand-Up Comedy, Compering, DJIng, After Dinner Speaking.

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