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Dubliner David O’Doherty
is one of the most talked about comics, Perrier Best Newcomer Nominee
and winner of Channel 4’s So You Think You’re Funny Award at
the Edinburgh Festival
“Wonderful” - The Evening Herald
His fusion of
songs, stories and his stand-up style draws as much from stand-up comedy
as it does from the jazz music. Working regularly away from the traditional
comedy circuit, O’Doherty often performs with musician David Kitt
(Meteor Irish Rock Musician of the Year 2002) and jazz saxophonist
Michael Buckley of New York’s Mingus Big Band
“The audience
hangs on every word” - The Stage
He may not be
entirely new, but David O’Doherty is certainly novel....
laid back to the point of torpor, this Dubliner is wonderful as well as
weird. His tale of a lobster who dreams of playing jazz is full of pathos
and humour, while his songs
reveal musical nous and a self-deprecating streak.
Those in search
of strange textures and winsome, individual tales of woe
should seek out this endearing eccentric.
After a triumphant
Melbourne festival, he’s toured across Ireland, the UK Europe
and Australia. Describing himself as ‘a bit like the band Steely
Dan if they
did comedy instead of music’ - this is one comic you cannot afford
to miss!
A sideways-smiling
fool with a clapped-out keyboard who
comes on like a cross between Eric Idle and Cameron Frye
from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
Frankly, he’s wasted in the warm-up slot, overflowing as his
head seems to be with wry asides, daft stories and delightfully nonsensical
songs – with a bit of luck he’ll have his own show next year
and he’ll clean up.
" Wonderful" - The Evening Herald
"The audience hangs on every word" - The Stage
A curious mix
of songs and stories and half-songs and half-stories, his
stand-up style draws as much in spirit from comedy as it does from the
jazz
music and musicians he idolises.
In the past twelve months he has performed in Edinburgh, London, Brussels,
Prague, New York Boston, Melbourne and Iceland.
His writing regularly appears in The Irish Times and In Dublin Magazine,
and
has been featured in several anthologies, including the recent Giants
of the
Sun (Macmillan, 2002). His first book for children, Ronan Long Gets it
Wrong
(Mammoth 2000) has recently been optioned by Oscar nominated Brown Bag
Films
as a major animation series.
He is currently writing a children's book about Christmas crackers, a
radio
series about bees who are detectives and material for a new stand-up show
that will include a part featuring words that are just funny in their
own right..
TV/Radio credits include Couched (RTE 1997), @last TV (Stopwatch Films
1999), Cherry Pop (BBC Digital 2000), We Say Tomay-to (BBC Radio 2, 2002)
and Four at the Store (BBC Radio 4, 2002).
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