David Nicholas O'Doherty

David Nicholas O'Doherty (born 18 December 1975) is an Irish comedian, author, musician, actor and playwright and son of renowned jazz pianist Jim Doherty. 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 has written several books, two plays, and released three comedy CDs. His book for children, Danger Is Everywhere, illustrated by Chris Judge, was selected for the UNESCO Dublin, City of Literature Citywide Reading Campaign and was published in 10 languages around the world. His book The Summer I Robbed A Bank won the 2021 Irish Children's Book of the Year Award. O'Doherty regards himself as "a failed jazz musician, scrambling about for something else to do with his life".

His grandfather was Kevin O'Doherty, an Irish hurdles champion, and his great-grandfather was Seamus O'Doherty, a head of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. He is the youngest of three children. O'Doherty studied philosophy at Trinity College Dublin, where he was a member of the Jazz Society and a fake Breakdancing Society, and where his comedy career began. He 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 August 2008, he won the If.comedy award at the Edinburgh Fringe for his show Let's Comedy.

In June 2012 he became the first Irish comedian to have their own Comedy Central Presents episode on American television. In May 2007, his first TV series, The Modest Adventures of David O'Doherty, began airing on RTE Two; the six-part series was directed by John Carney. Since September 2024, O'Doherty has been hosting the comedy podcast What Did You Do Yesterday? together with Max Rushden. He has also written widely for newspapers and magazines and has two plays to his name, including Saddled, written with Bryan Quinn. O'Doherty is an avid cyclist and owns, as of 2025, 18 bicycles, and is a supporter of Tottenham Hotspur.