😂 EXCLUSIVE CHAT: David O'Doherty

Published Apr 16, 2024, 10:36 PM

Comedian David O'Doherty joins Jonesy & Amanda for a chat!

And Amanda gem Nation.

Our next guest is a man of many talents. He's a comedian and author of musician, an actor. He's one of the favorite guests that I've ever watched.

On What I Like to You.

Well now he's down Under with a hilarious news show called Ready Steady David o'doity And guess what his name is.

It's David o'doity. Hello, David here he is.

I love that intro. That was an absolutely perfect intro. Makes me seem more talented than I actually am. But yeah, I'll accept it.

Well please, but you are all those things.

And I like the musician part because you often incorporate a miniature electronic keyboard.

It's not what you'd call a chick magnet.

Is it.

No? I got it from my confirmation. Really really, I mean there's a very irish sentence. Now. Yeah, you see, my father is an actual musician. He is a piano player who would have played on like ten Lizzie records and dozens of recordings over the years. And I think he didn't want me to play a big piano because you can't turn it down. But the small plastic Yamaha and Cassio you can just simply take the batteries out and then I can't be heard.

And this is the same one that you got for your confirmation.

I'll be honest, Jonesy. It's been replaced several times as sometimes after a gig you take it to a bar and sometimes someone in that bar sits on your beautiful keyboard you go for your confirmation.

It sounds great the confirmation, Gybud, because when you make your confirmation I'm a Catholic, a man is not a Catholic.

But that you're about what twelve years of age?

Yes, exactly, yeah, yeah, so I definitely. Well, I wanted to be a professional cyclist and that wasn't working out, and then I decided I would become a professional musician, and has that worked out? I'll let you be the judges.

And how did your family feel when you said you're going to be a professional comedian, because that would be way down the chain.

You'd think, well, when your dad is a jazz musician, I think it might actually be a step up technically. I think in terms of what would horrify potential, you know in laws more and probably jazz is more horrific than comedy. So I'm doing okay. I mean, it's an interesting family because so my great grandfather was a famous like a revolutionary and the revolutionary period in Ireland, and then my grandfather was like a secretary to a prime minister. And then my dad is a jazz musician and I'm a stand up comedian. So it doesn't bode well for the generations coming after me. The trajectory seems to be going down.

Imft.

Someone in your family is going to be a game show host or working on TV advertorials.

Maybe yo yo, professional yo.

Well, I love the idea that you recently featured on British Bakoff.

Was that terrifying? It's a very genteel show, but it looks terrifying.

It is absolutely. I rehearsed harder for that than I have for the Edinburgh Fringe for anything that I've ever done on and then on the day or on a couple of days when we filmed it, we filmed it in the same studios when I filmed the James Bond. So it's got an outdoor grassy bit so it looks very beautiful and I fell to pieces day one. The first two sections of bake Off, I was the laughing stock. But then, what you really want to be on one of these shows, I've realized since then is the hero the redemption arc. So at the very end my show stopp where it really brought the house down, And what.

Did you get your redemption arc?

Well, I didn't get a handshake, which is the thing you want from mister Paul Hollywood. But I certainly looking at the feedback that I got online and I think it was more feedback than I've ever gone for anything. People liked this. It was quite an emotional cake that I made.

Emotional What was this.

So you had to do? Okay, I think heroism was you have to do a cake inspired by that. And I've always liked those Antarctic exploration stories, particularly the Irish explorer Shackleton with of course stuck in the ice for a year. So I made a giant merangue with a tiny chocolate flake ship in the middle of it. It genuinely so, I looked up what the food they had when they were stuck in the ice for a year, and they had Roman dates, So I put a layer of Roman dates inside it, and by Fluke, more than anything, it's one of the most delicious things I've ever tasted, So yeah, I may move full time into into cakes after this tour.

Well, I thought, being comedian comedian, you would have used the caked in the bunt just for the comedic jokes with it. All you're gonna do is just say bunt and people to start laughing dirtily.

I'll bear that in mind for my big return.

If you come up on the stage, Jackleton, with your keyboard and your bunt, hopefully no one sits on it.

No, that's true. That sounds out the name of our show, keyboard and bump.

David, it's so great to talk to you.

Tickets to David o'daherty's show are on sale now at ticket tech dot com dot Are you such a trait to catch up with you?

Thank you, David, Thanks.

So much, you guys. It's do you know what I look forward to with this gig as much as anything, it's the end more it's in Newtown and Sydney, and then afterwards we pick always with that, with the help of the sixteen hundred people that are there, we pick a slightly quiet, sad pub in Newtown that maybe no one's in for whatever reason, and we decide to have an after party there, so suddenly, you know, you normally get three hundred approximately from the gig, just turn up and we already into the small hours. So that's something I'm looking forward to as well.

We'll find out and try and crash that as.

Well, because there's that one that's just up the road and it's got a motorbike hanging over the bar and there's no one ever in it.

It's so great.

And just for your information, there's a Chinese restaurant across the road. It's part of the Royal Hotel. Anything you eat in there is going to be just brilliant.

You'll enjoy that.

And for further information, I actually appeared naked on the stage at the Mre Theater if that helps.

Oh my goodness.

It was for the full Monto.

It was. It was for a real thing. I wasn't just there showing the bunt.

It was the world's smallest organ like yours, Like, oh my godn't.

David didn't know he was going to get a show in return. Thank you for joining us.

It's a pleasure.

Thank you, David.

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