Dylan Moran (born 3 November, 1971) is a BAFTA and Perrier Award-winning Irish comedian, actor and writer. He is most famous for his observational comedy, the television sitcom Black Books which he co-wrote and starred in, and his work with Simon Pegg in Shaun of the Dead and Run Fatboy Run. Moran is a regular performer at national and international comedy festivals including the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Just for Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival...
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Dylan Moran (born 3 November, 1971) is a BAFTA and Perrier Award-winning Irish comedian, actor and writer. He is most famous for his observational comedy, the television sitcom Black Books which he co-wrote and starred in, and his work with Simon Pegg in Shaun of the Dead and Run Fatboy Run. Moran is a regular performer at national and international comedy festivals including the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Just for Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Kilkenny Comedy Festival.
Moran was born in Navan, County Meath, Ireland. He attended St. Patrick's Classical School, where he experimented early on with standup, (with fellow comic Tommy Tiernan) and left at age 16 with his Leaving Certificate. Moran apparently spent four jobless years "drinking and writing bad poetry". He worked as a florist for a week but hated it.
Moran fell into comedy at age 20 after watching Ardal O'Hanlon and other comedians perform at Dublin's Comedy Cellar, a...
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