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Daniel O'Brien (born January 6, 1986), also known as "DOB", is an American humorist, author, writer, comedian and songwriter; formerly for Cracked.com. Since August 2018, O'Brien works as a staff writer on the HBO show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. In 2019, 2020, and 2021 he was part of the writing team that won three Emmy Awards for Outstanding Writing on a Variety Series.

Daniel grew up in Hazlet, New Jersey, where he attended Raritan High School. He later attended Rutgers University in New Jersey. His college job as a bartender was the inspiration for his unpublished online novel, Bartender.

In 2007, O'Brien started working for Cracked.com as senior writer and editor. O'Brien has written over 200 articles for the site that have been seen more than 50 million times.