Our guest today leads the double life of being an academic at Trinity College, Dublin, by day and doing stand-up comedy by night! Andrew Dorman is a Research and Policy Officer with TCD's Centre for Economics, Policy, and History, and recently earned his PhD in history from Dublin City University. A specialist on soldiering in 18th century Ireland, Andrew has published with the British Journal of Military History and the Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, and his first book is coming out with Broydell and Brewer in early 2025. Andrew's night gig doing stand-up has taken him to Asia, the US, and Europe, and he's twice performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Andrew has a great story—growing up in Dublin, watching war movies as a kid, then discovering history and comedy in college and deciding to pursue both! We'll talk 3-minute thesis competitions, crafting a joke, My Chemical Romance, hecklers, Ulf the Quarrelsome, among a lot of other stuff—this one is packed!
Shout-out to Friend of the Pod Zack White for putting us in touch with Andrew, and shout-out to Andrew's local in Dublin, The Stag's Head!
Rec.: 11/21/2024
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