Awards
Winner: if. comedy Award 2008
Nominee: Barry Award, Melbourne Comedy Festival 2007
Nominee: If.Comedy Award 2006
Nominee: Perrier Best Newcomer 2000
Winner: So You Think You’re Funny 1999
Runner-Up: BBC New Comedy Awards
In 2008, David O' Doherty won the top prize at the if.comedy awards at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for his show
Let's Comedy. The award topped off an extremely busy and successful festival for David as he performed in three
shows every day for the month. His children's show, I Can't Sleep received rave reviews and delighted young
audiences and he also performed nightly at The Honourable Men of Art at The Stand. Since then David has
completed two tours of the UK as well as performing in Canada as part of the Just For Laughs Comedy Tour and
extensively across Australia including at the Melbourne Comedy Festival.
After a handful of guest appearances on Never Mind the Buzzcocks David returned to the show as guest host in
November 2010. His other recent television appearances include 8 Out of 10 Cats, Have I Got News For You and
Dave’s One Night Stand.
Both books, entitled 100 Facts About Pandas and the follow up 100 Facts About Sharks are available to buy now. In 2009 David released a live CD entitled Let’s David O’Doherty.
David has cemented his reputation as one of the most consistently funny performers at the Fringe with a string of sellout
shows. In August 2011 he brought two shows, David O’Doherty is Looking Up and a character piece, David
O’Doherty Presents: Rory Sheridan's Tales of The Antarctica.
David first stepped on stage at Dublin’s Comedy Cellar in 1998. In 1999 he won the Channel 4’s So You Think You’re
Funny award for new comedians and was runner-up in the BBC New Comedy Awards.
His first full show The Story of the Boy Who Saved Comedy was performed at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe in
2000 and received a nomination for Perrier Best Newcomer. He has returned to the festival several times, his 2006
show David O’Doherty is My Name garnering a nomination for best show. In 2006 he recorded his first CD Giggle
Me Timbers (or Jokes Ahoy!) at home in his flat in front of 35 people. His first television series The Modest
Adventures of David O’Doherty was transmitted on RTE in Ireland in 2007.
David has written widely for newspapers and magazines, published a book for children (Ronan Long Gets it Wrong),
written a play (Saddled) with Bryan Quinn - the world’s first theatrical production to feature live repair of audience
members’ bicycles, and a radio series about bee detectives with his brother Mark (The Bees of Manulla).
David has performed around the world at festivals in Melbourne, Montreal, New York, Prague, Adelaide, Iceland and
Wellington.
David O'Doherty
Television
• Dara O’Briain’s School Of Hard Sums (Dave, 2011)
• Have I Got News For You (BBC1, 2011)
• Room 101 (BBC2, 2011)
• 8 Out of 10 Cats (C4, 2010-2011)
• Never Mind the Buzzcocks (guest) (BBC 2, 2008, 2009) (guest host) (2010)
• Dave’s One Night Stand (Dave 2010)
• Edinburgh Comedy Fest Live (BBC 3, 2010)
• Comedy Live Presents (Channel 4, 2008)
• The Modest Adventures of David O’Doherty (RTE Two, 2007)
Films
• A Film with Me in It (2008)CDs
• Let’s David O’Doherty (2009)
• Giggle Me Timbers (Or Jokes Ahoy!) (2006)
Books
• 100 Facts About Pandas (Random House, 2009)
• Ronan Long Gets it Wrong (Mammoth 2001)
Writing Credits
• Saddled (play co-written with Bryan Quinn)
• The Bees of Manulla (radio series co-written with Mark O’Doherty)
• I Can’t Sleep (children’s show co-written with Maeve Higgins and performed by both at Fringe 2008)
When a stand up gig goes this well, you do get a sense of how religions are started
Guardian
This country’s best unassuming comedian…O’Doherty managed to reaffirm a belief in live comedy
Irish Times
He's funny, wretched and clever enough to spawn an army of imitators.
The Age, Melbourne
His gags are tidy, carefully crafted affairs. His observations are spot on yet inventive
The List
Has the air of being amiable, carefree and shambolic, which disguises some subtly clever writing.
Quietly marvellous songs…Delightful, expertly told anecdotes, rich in descriptive prose
Chortle
Mighty clever, mighty funny slice of silly-musical comedy…segues deftly from straight delivery to theatrical set-pieces
to musical numbers, among which there is not a single dud
Outstanding material
Guiltless musical and comedic pleasure.
The List
Lovely routines…Charm in abundance
The Guardian
Entertainingly bonkers ditties…As his legions of loyal fans will attest, this thirtysomething Dubliner remains one of the
most enjoyably off-the-wall acts on the Fringe
Metro
The DOD, as he occasionally refers to himself, seems to get better year on year…He had added expertise without
losing any of his beginner’s charm.
Smart, well-judged stuff
Sweet, simplistic, faux-naif stuff that defies you not to giggle
The Scotsman
Utterly superb
The finest Irish comedian
Irish Independent
An engaging, qualified success
A crowd consensus that held he was the cat’s nip
The Gazette, Montreal
On 2009 Edinburgh show David O’Doh-Party
Hilarious…the cult of David O’Doherty is firmly established
Metro ****
A warm and satisfying night in the hands of an expert communicator
List ****
He's one of those people who are so good they make comedy look easy…an hour in his company slips
away in no time
Scotsman ****
O'Doherty's act is easy to be in love with
Guardian
Excellent
Independent on Sunday
On 2008 If. Comedy Award winning show, Let’s Comedy:
O’Doherty’s observational nose and comedic instincts have never been keener…Truly hilarious…David O’Doherty is an
outright gift
A tiny keyboard and giant talent
The List ****
Comedy magic…The audience was struggling to sit upright
The Daily Telegraph
When a stand up gig goes this well, you do get a sense of how religions are started
Guardian
In O’Doherty’s instance, believe the hype. This is furiously funny faffing from a comedian at the top of his game
Chortle ****
He’s a scintillating comic force…Excellent observational gags…Wonderfully eccentric
The Scotsman ****
Truly delightful – a glistening stream of consciousness that turns mundanity to enchantment wherever it
flows
Metro *****
On 2008 children’s show I Can’t Sleep:
It’s all but impossible to recommend I Can’t Sleep highly enough…The show avoids patronising anyone among its
potential audience…(DO’D) is a personality we can all relate to with gleeful ease
I Can’t Sleep is fantastical, thought-provoking and anarchic in quick succession
The Scotsman ****
Both performers have a lovely, gentle rapport with the audience and the daft banter and slapstick is frequently laughout-
loud funny
The List ****
Genius kids’ comic theatre…The joy of the production lies in the sheer naturalism of both performers…A real crowdpleaser,
for young and old
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