Mark Dolan is English by nationality.
The English comedian, writer, and presenter Mark Dolan is currently the host of Mark Dolan Tonight on GB News.
He attended University College School and the University of Edinburgh, where he earned an MA in politics.
As an undergraduate at Edinburgh, he performed in the improvisational comedy troupe The Improverts.
Dolan started his stand-up comedy in 2000, reaching the final of Channel 4’s So You Think You’re Funny competition in his first year of performing.
In media, Dolan began as a radio producer, working for the female-only Viva Radio, 963 Liberty, and the original incarnation of talkRADIO and then talkSPORT.
He was the producer of the Nick Ferrari and David Banks-fronted Big Boys’ Breakfast, to which he also contributed comedy sketches.
In 2016, he won the Celebrity Come Dine with Me Christmas Special, with a Dickensian-themed meal of pea soup, three-bird roast, and plum duff as dessert.
Dolan also appeared in the fourth and final series of the Channel 4 winter sports entertainment show The Jump, alongside Bradley Wiggins, Robbie Fowler, and Jason Robinson.
He joined GB News on 23 July 2021.