Richard Thomas Osman is an English television presenter, producer, comedian, and writer. He is best known for being the creator and co-presenter of the BBC One television quiz show Pointless. Osman has also presented the BBC Two quiz shows Two Tribes and Richard Osman’s House of Games. He has been a team captain on the comedy panel shows Insert Name Here and The Fake News Show.
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Richard Thomas Osman is an English television presenter, producer, comedian, and writer. He is best known for being the creator and co-presenter of the BBC One television quiz show Pointless. Osman has also presented the BBC Two quiz shows Two Tribes and Richard Osman’s House of Games. He has been a team captain on the comedy panel shows Insert Name Here and The Fake News Show. His other credits include Whose Line is it Anyway?, Total Wipeout and the game show 24 Hour Quiz. In 2020, Osman created four series of primetime show House of Night, which airs on Friday nights on BBC1. He was born in Billericay, Essex, to Brenda Wright and David Osman, and grew up in Haywards Heath, West Sussex.
When Osman was nine years old, his father walked out on the family, which Osman says created difficulty for the rest of his life. He studied Politics and Sociology at Trinity College, Cambridge. He worked at Hat Trick Productions alongside Ben Smith before becoming creative director of the television production company Endemol UK, producing shows including Prize Island for ITV and Deal or No Deal for Channel 4. In April 2017 Osman began hosting his own quiz show on BBC Two. On five days each week four panellists compete in knowledge tests in a variety of entertaining games. The overall winner is crowned Friday Night Night Games.
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