1. Oliver Callan rose to fame during the 2000s when his daily Nob Nation slots aired on RTE Radio.
17 Facts About Oliver Callan
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Nob Nation and Callan's Kicks parody political, social and cultural personalities, with Callan performing as the characters featured on the show.
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Oliver Callan has incurred the wrath of several politicians and the Kerry football star Paul Galvin over his impressions.
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Oliver Callan is well known in Ireland for skewering celebrities and politicians on the radio.
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Oliver Callan grew up on a farm and has a degree in journalism from Dublin City University.
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Oliver Callan initially worked as a newsreader on Today FM where he performed on Gift Grub as Enda Kenny, he later began performing sketches on The Gerry Ryan Show on RTE 2fm.
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Oliver Callan wrote and produced almost 900 Nob Nation sketches on his own for the Gerry Ryan Show over three years.
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Nob Nation was Oliver Callan's first foray into comedy and was a sketch insert on The Gerry Ryan Show from 2007 until the presenter's death in 2010.
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The first Nob Nation CD, containing twenty of Oliver Callan's sketches, was released in Ireland in November 2007 and went platinum.
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Oliver Callan once rang Charlie Bird and, impersonating Enda Kenny, said there was a story about to break about Kenny buying women's underwear.
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In October 2011, Oliver Callan was allegedly assaulted by Kerry football star Paul Galvin late at night in Kehoe's Pub, Central Dublin.
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The media speculated on the reason behind the alleged incident, reporting that Oliver Callan had recently mimicked Galvin asking Taoiseach Enda Kenny to man-up by giving him a body-wax on radio.
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Oliver Callan impersonated Galvin again on the radio the week after the alleged assault.
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Oliver Callan then appeared on The Saturday Night Show for an unprecedented second consecutive week to defend himself against accusations of homophobia by coming out on live television.
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Oliver Callan performed five sell-out nights live at Dublin's Olympia Theatre between September 2008 and May 2013.
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Oliver Callan has performed shows nationwide and appeared in viral adverts for Lidl, The Irish Sun and Paddy Power.
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On 20 January 2024, RTE announced that Oliver Callan would become the new host of the 9am slot on RTE Radio 1 taking over from Ryan Tubridy.