David O'Doherty
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David O'Doherty performing at Bumbershoot in 2010.
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| Birth name | David Nicholas O'Doherty |
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18 December 1975 Dublin, Ireland |
| Medium | Stand up, television |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Education | Trinity College Dublin |
| Years active | 1999–present |
| Genres | Musical comedy, Surreal humour |
| Website | www.davidodoherty.com |
David Nicholas O'Doherty (/oʊˈdɒhərti/; born 18 December 1975 in Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish comedian, author, musician, actor and playwright. His stand-up has won many international awards including the if.comedy award in 2008 and Best International Comedian at the 2014 Sydney Comedy Festival.
He attended Trinity College Dublin, where his comedy career began. “I spent a lot of my time introducing things”, he says, “concerts and bands, that sort of thing”. “I remember once my brother once bet me I couldn’t get the word ‘spaghetti’ into an introduction for a piano recital in the Edmund Burke so I stood-up and said ‘my brother has bet me I can’t say the word spaghetti' and I got a laugh."
O'Doherty has written several books, composed two plays and released three comedy CDs. His latest book for children, Danger Is Everywhere, illustrated by Chris Judge has been selected for the UNESCO Dublin, City of Literature Citywide Reading Campaign. In 2015 it was published in 10 languages around the world.
He regards himself as "a failed jazz musician, scrambling about for something else to do with his life."
O'Doherty is well known for combining his comedic performance with tunes played on his miniature electronic keyboard. O'Doherty describes his own style of comedy in his song "FAQ for the DOD" as "very low energy musical whimsy" – or "VLEMWy," for short.
O'Doherty worked in a bicycle shop and in telemarketing and temping before he made his first stage appearance at Dublin's Comedy Cellar in 1998. His first full show was The Story of the Boy Who Saved Comedy which received a nomination for Perrier Best Newcomer when it was performed at Edinburgh Fringe. In 2006, he was nominated for an if.comedy award for his Edinburgh show, David O'Doherty Is My Name. O'Doherty has performed at festivals across the world in locations that include Melbourne, Montreal, New York City and Wellington NZ, Moscow and Iceland. As a support act he first toured Ireland with Tommy Tiernan, the United Kingdom with Rich Hall and the United States with Demetri Martin. he has since returned to those places with his own tours. He has often worked with Flight of the Conchords.
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