David O'Doherty
Year Nominee / work Award Result
1999 Edinburgh Fringe Channel 4 So You Think You 're Funny Comedy Competition winner Won
1999 BBC New Comedy Awards 2nd
2000 Perrier Best Newcomer Award Nominated
2003 Hot Press Irish Comedian of the Year Won
2006 David O'Doherty is My Name If.comedy award Nominated
2006 David O'Doherty is My Name Barry Award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Nominated
2008 Let 's Comedy If.comedy award Won
2014 David ODoherty Will Try To Fix Everything Best International Comedian Sydney Comedy Festival Awards Won
Comedic career -- Awards and nominations for stand-up comedy
O'Doherty has been decorated with numerous awards for his achievements in comedy . In 1999 , he won the Channel 4 So You Think You 're Funny Comedy Competition at the Edinburgh Fringe and was also a finalist in the BBC New Comedy Awards in the same year . [ 12 ] He has received the accolade of Hot Press Irish Comedian of the Year in 2003 and 2010 . [ citation needed ] In 2000 , he was nominated for Perrier Best Newcomer Award for his show , David O'Doherty : The Boy Who Saved Comedy [ citation needed ] followed in 2006 by a nomination for The if.comeddie award for his show , David O'Doherty is My Name [ citation needed ] He eventually won the if.comedy Award ( formerly the Perrier Award ) in 2008 for Let 's Comedy . [ 13 ] In 2009 O'Doherty was made honorary president of The Monumental Brass Society , after a particularly well received routine on brass rubbing at the previous year 's Edinburgh Fringe . St. Patrick 's Cathedral , Dublin , is his favourite place for brass rubbing . [ citation needed ] He was also nominated for the Barry Award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2006 [ 14 ] and in 2014 received the award for Best International Comedian at the Sydney Comedy Festival . [ 15 ] .mw-parser-output .awards-table td : last-child { text-align : center }
David Nicholas O'Doherty (; born 18 December 1975) 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 my brother once bet me I couldnt 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 cant say the word spaghetti' and I got a laugh. O'Doherty has written several books, written 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.