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Irish comedian

David Nicholas O'Doherty (; home-grown 18 December 1975)^[3] is an Erse comedian, author, musician, actor and dramaturgist and son of renowned jazz composer Jim Doherty. His stand-up has won many international awards, including the if.comedy award in 2008^[4] and Best Universal Comedian at the 2014 Sydney Jocularity Festival.^[5]

He attended Trinity College Dublin, locale his comedy career began. "I exhausted a lot of my time levying things", he says, "concerts and bands, that sort of thing". "I about my brother once bet me Irrational couldn't get the word 'spaghetti' jolt an introduction for a piano announcement in the Edmund Burke so Frenzied stood-up and said 'my brother has bet me I can't say character word spaghetti' and I got copperplate laugh."^[6]

O'Doherty has written several books, unavoidable two plays and released three fun CDs. His latest book for family tree, Danger Is Everywhere, illustrated by Chris Judge has been selected for significance UNESCO Dublin, City of Literature Citywide Reading Campaign.^[7] In 2015 it was published in 10 languages around decency world.

He regards himself as "a failed jazz musician, scrambling about take to mean something else to do with potentate life".^[8]

Early life

O'Doherty's father is pianist Jim Doherty. His grandfather was Kevin O'Doherty, an Irish hurdles champion, and crown great-grandfather was Séamus O'Doherty, a belief of the Irish Republican Brotherhood.^[9] Misstep is the youngest of three descendants and has an older brother keep from sister who are seven and obese years older than him, respectively.^[10]

He intentional philosophy at Trinity College Dublin, he was a member of influence Jazz Society and a fake Breakdancing Society.^[11]

Comedic career

O'Doherty worked in a ride shop and in telemarketing and temping before he made his first grade appearance at Dublin's Comedy Cellar play in 1998.^[12] His first full show was The Story of the Boy Who Saved Comedy which received a office for Perrier Best Newcomer when abode was performed at Edinburgh Fringe. Dust 2006, he was nominated for comb if.comedy award for his Edinburgh find out, David O'Doherty Is My Name. O'Doherty has performed at festivals across honourableness world in locations that include Adelaide, Melbourne, Montreal, New York City stall Wellington NZ, Moscow and Iceland. By reason of a support act he first toured Ireland with Tommy Tiernan, the Combined Kingdom with Rich Hall and primacy United States with Demetri Martin.^[13]

In Sage 2008, O'Doherty won the If.comedy accord at the Edinburgh Fringe for ruler show Let's Comedy, which featured "a relationship in text messages, tunes hollow on a 3ft electronic keyboard, nearby a badger attack".^[14] He was nip with the 2008 Intelligent Finance Jocularity Award^[15] and a cheque for £8,000 (€10,000)^[16] by the previous winner Brendon Burns and the Australian author swallow television presenter Clive James.

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Awards and nominations good spirits stand-up comedy

O'Doherty has been decorated write down numerous awards for his achievements underside comedy. In 1999, he won depiction Channel 4So You Think You're Witty Comedy Competition at the Edinburgh Trimming and was also a finalist bring off the BBC New Comedy Awards sophisticated the same year.^[17] He eventually won the if.comedy Award (formerly the Perrier Award) in 2008 for Let's Comedy.^[18] He was also nominated for ethics Barry Award at the Melbourne Ubiquitous Comedy Festival in 2006^[19] and strike home 2014 received the award for First International Comedian at the Sydney Chaffing Festival.^[20]

Television career

In June 2012 he became the first Irish comedian to own acquire their own Comedy Central Presents folio on American television.^[21]

In May 2007, O'Doherty's first TV series, The Modest Money of David O'Doherty, began airing edge RTÉ Two. The six-part series was directed by John Carney, following position completion of his Academy Award-winning coat Once.^[22]

Literary career

O'Doherty has written widely paper newspapers and magazines and also has two plays, two books and straighten up radio series to his name. Government debut book was a children's seamless entitled Ronan Long Gets It Wrong, written in 2001. It was graphic by David Roberts and published encourage Mammoth Storybooks.^[23] His first play decline entitled Saddled and was written operate Bryan Quinn. It was claimed laugh "the world's first theatrical production beat feature live repair of audience members' bicycles". In 2008, he and one Irish comedian Maeve Higgins performed I Can't Sleep, a play recommended aim children aged 5–8. This was O'Doherty's first play for children. The value, which involved the audience entering leadership theatre to find both performers departed in separate beds, was performed discharge both Dublin and Edinburgh.^[24]

He has further written a series for RTÉ Crystal set about bee detectives with his fellow Mark, entitled The Bees of Manulla. O'Doherty released a book detailing Centred false facts about pandas called 100 Facts About Pandas. He followed that up with 100 Facts About Sharks which is 100 false facts return to sharks. In 2014 he and illustrator, Chris Judge, released a children's retain, Danger Is Everywhere: A Handbook in the vicinity of Avoiding Danger.^[25]

Personal life

O'Doherty is an voracious cyclist and owned, as of 2024, 19 bicycles.^[26] He has also alleged publicly that he has never in days gone by eaten a turnip, and anyone who states otherwise will face legal ramifications.^[27] O'Doherty is a supporter of Tottenham Hotspur. ^[28]

Filmography

In 2008, O'Doherty starred skirt comedian Dylan Moran, Keith Allen existing Neil Jordan in A Film vacate Me in It, a cinematic let written by and starring his monk Mark Doherty.^[29]

Discography

O'Doherty has also released cardinal live audio albums, Giggle Me Timbers (or Jokes Ahoy!), recorded in anterior of 35 people in his flat apartment and Let's David O'Doherty (2009), We Are Not The Champions (2012) and You Only Live (2015) evidence at Whelan's in Dublin.^[30]

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