Dan Nightingale

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Dan Nightingale (born 15 March 1981) is an English stand-up comedian and podcaster from Preston, Lancashire. [1] [2]

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Career

Nightingale has been a professional comic since 2004. [3] [4] He performed his first UK and Ireland tour in 2022 titled Smasher, [5] and subsequently released the show onto YouTube. Nightingale went on his second tour, in 2023 which was titled 'Dan Nightingale's Special' and released the video version on YouTube in January 2024. [6] [7]

Nightingale's first appearance on national television was on John Bishop's Only Joking, on Sky 1 in 2013. [8]

In 2013 Nightingale was voted Preston's the 'Entertainer of the Year'. [9]

Dan Nightingale has also appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival multiple times. His debut was in 2005 where he appeared with Josie Long in a show titled 'Audience with Josie Long and Dan Nightingale'. [10] Nightingale's second show, in 2008 was named 'Geronimo' where he was noted for his budding 'star quality'. [11] Nightingale returned to the fringe festival in 2012 with 'The Eleven and a Half Ill Conceived Edinburgh Shows of Dan Nightingale'. [12] In 2013 Nightingale's show was titled 'Love in the time of Cholesterol' and his performances were described as 'comforting'. [13] In his fifth year attending the Edinburgh Fringe Nightingale performed the show 'Dan Nightingale is Trying His Best Not to Be a Dick'. Chortle described this show as 'outrageously funny'. [14] His most recent show was 'Sex, Drugs and My Nanna's Bungalow' in 2018 which garnered positive reviews. [15]

Have A Word Podcast

Nightingale founded the Have a Word podcast with fellow comedian Adam Rowe and Paul Ince in 2020. In 2021, Rowe and Nightingale, under the umbrella of Have A Word, released the song Laura's Gone in a bid to reach Christmas number 1 and raise money for Zoe's Place Baby Hospice and the Childhood Eye Cancer Trust. [16] The song reached number 39 in the Official Charts Company midweek chart. [17]

In 2022, Have A Word won the Best Podcast at the Chortle Awards. [18] In 2023, it was nominated for the Best Comedy Podcast at the National Comedy Awards. [19] [20]

As of 18th March 2024, Have A Word is the 17th most subscribed to page on Patreon, however they are ranked 4th for video content. [21]

Awards

YearCategoryAwardResult
2009 Chortle Awards [22] Best CompereNominated
2015 Comics' Comic Awards [23] Best MCWon
2018 Chortle Awards [24] Best CompereNominated
2019 North West Comedy Awards [25] Best ActWon
Chortle Awards [26] Best CompereNominated
2020 North West Comedy Awards [27] [28] Best ActWon
Best CompereWon
Best Podcast (Hack Radio)Nominated
Chortle Awards [29] Best CompereNominated
2022 North West Comedy Awards [30] Best ActWon
Social Media Award (Have a Word)Won
Best Podcast (Have a Word)Won
Chortle Awards [31] Best Podcast (Have a Word)Won
2023 National Comedy Awards [32] [33] Best Comedy Podcast (Have a Word)Nominated

Personal life

Nightingale's mother died when he was 16. [34]

Nightingale started a degree in Politics at Newcastle University but dropped out to pursue a career in comedy. [35]

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