KILDARE EVENTS: David O’Doherty’s Tiny Piano Man at Moat Theatre

Well known comedian, David O'Doherty is coming to the Moat Theatre in Naas on January 18 with his show Tiny Piano Man.

“The dishevelled price of €10 eBay keyboards tries to make you feel alive with a new pageant of laughter, song and occasionally getting up from a chair. It’s gonna be a big one,” said the entertainer.

David has appeared on UK television on shows such as QI, Have I Got News For You, 8 Out of 10 Cats and Would I Lie to You.

He also said he is the least famous person ever to have hosted an episode of Nevermind the Buzzcocks.

David describes himself as a "comedian, flanneur and 1990 East Leinster under 14 triple jump bronze medalist".

Born in Dublin at the end of 1975, he wanted to become a professional cyclist, then a professional jazz musician, but he pointed out an almost complete lack of talent in these areas meant that he became a professional telemarketer, ringing up strangers to ask them to rate things out of ten.

His biography reads; “Then in 1998 he did his first open spot at the now defunct Norseman Comedy Club in Dublin’s unfortunate Temple Bar district. In 1999 he traveled to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the first time and was lucky enough to win the Channel 4 So You Think You’re Funny? new act competition and with it a huge cardboard cheque with £1500 written on it.

“Somebody told him it was legal tender, so he took it into a bank which made the cashier almost weep with laughter. 'Seriously, she got the other people from round the back to come out and laugh at me.' That’s the main thing he remembers about that.

In 2000 he wrote a book for children, Ronan Long Gets it Wrong that Mammoth Storybooks in London published. He performed his first full show The Story of the Boy Who Saved Comedy at the Dublin and Edinburgh Fringes, and decided that he definitely did want to be a stand up comedian.”

In 2005 he supported Tommy Tiernan and Rich Hall on tours of Ireland and the UK and learned a lot from them.

His 2006 show ‘David O’Doherty is my name’ was nominated for the if.comedy Award at The Edinburgh Fringe and was performed in Dublin, Melbourne and New Zealand.

2007 saw his first major Irish tour and a series of documentaries, The Modest Adventures of David O’Doherty on Irish television.

In 2008 his new stand up show Let’s Comedy was performed in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and at the Edinburgh Fringe, where it received the if.com Award for Best Show.

That Autumn he toured across Canada with the Just For Laughs Roadshow. 2009 saw the launch of the book 100 Facts About Pandas, co-written with his friends Mike Ahern and Claudia O’Doherty, followed in 2011 by 100 Facts About Sharks.

He also appeared in a feature film A Film With Me in It with his brother Mark and Dylan Moran and embarked on his first major UK tour.

In June 2012 he became the first Irish comedian to have their own Comedy Central Presents show on US television.

His quirky dead pan brand of comedy is off the wall and a great night is guaranteed at the Naas venue.

Tickets cost €22 plus €1.50 online booking fee. For further information, log onto www.moattheatre.com