Why Nick Doody is on this page

Heritage: Doody-surname carrier in British comedy; the cited Wikipedia article does not document Irish ancestry. Heritage classification: surname-carrier.

Nick Doody (born 1972 in Morley, West Yorkshire) is a British stand-up comedian and comedy writer who came up through the late-1990s circuit and has spent two decades writing for some of the most prominent BBC and Channel Four comedy series. He was a finalist on Channel 4’s 1997 *So You Think You’re Funny* competition, the same year he wrote for Channel 4’s *FAQ U*; following his late-night gigs with the American comedian Bill Hicks in 1992, he was commissioned to write a study, *Telling the Truth, Laughing: The Life and Works of Bill Hicks*. He has written for *8 Out of 10 Cats*, *The Late Edition* (BBC Four), *The Now Show* (BBC Radio 4) and Armando Iannucci’s *Charm Offensive* (BBC Radio 4). His first solo Edinburgh show, *Before He Kills Again*, was performed in 2006; he has appeared on *The World Stands Up* for BBC America and Paramount in the UK and on *Edinburgh and Beyond* on Paramount.

Heritage notes

Family root: Morley, West Yorkshire, England — diaspora-unconfirmed-surname-only.

The directory threads Nick Doody back to the O'Dubhda clan story via the surname-variants reality — the same family carried these spellings as it scattered. See the septs and the diaspora for the wider pattern, or the Clan DNA Project for the genetic connections being mapped now.