Nathan Macintosh

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Nathan Macintosh [1] is a Canadian stand-up comedian from Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is most noted for his 2024 comedy album Down with Tech [2] , which was a Juno Award nominee for Comedy Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2025. [3]

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Career

Macintosh won the Canadian Comedy Award for Best Stand-Up Newcomer at the 10th Canadian Comedy Awards in 2009, and played a fictionalized version of himself in the 2022 TV1 comedy series Trapped. [4] He was named one of Variety (magazine)'s 10 Comics To Watch in 2024. [5] Macintosh is the host of the podcast Positive Anger [6] .

The New York Times named his first special [7] Money Never Wakes [8] The Best YouTube Special Of 2023. [9] His second comedy special Down With Tech was recommended by The New York Times [10] and Vulture named it one of the Top 5 Specials To Check Out In 2024. [11] He has performed standup on Conan (talk show) [12] and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert [13] in 2017, as well as The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in 2019 [14] , 2023 [15] and 2024. [16]

Personal life

Macintosh married Canadian writer Liz Heather [17] in Toronto, Ontario in August 2025.

References

  1. "Official Nathan Macintosh"
  2. Nathan Macintosh, "Down With Tech" Available on YouTube
  3. Holly Gordon, "Here are all the 2025 Juno nominees". CBC Music, February 11, 2025
  4. Chelsey Gould, "Nathan Macintosh, Jonathan Torrens feature Truro in second season of Trapped". PNI Atlantic News, November 18, 2022
  5. Courtney Howard, Tomris Laffly, Stuart Miller, Paul Plunkett, Jenelle Riley "Variety's 10 Comics To Watch in 2024" Variety, July 16, 2024
  6. Nathan Macintosh, "Positive Anger" Apple Podcasts
  7. Nathan Macintosh, "Money Never Wakes Available on YouTube
  8. Jason Zinoman, "Three New Stand-Up Specials, Three Very Different Approaches" The New York Times, February 18, 2023
  9. Jason Zinoman, "Best Comedy of 2023"The New York Times, December 10, 2023
  10. Jason Zinoman,"5 Knockout Stand-Up Specials for the Long Weekend" The New York Times, May 25, 2024
  11. Jesse David Fox, "5 Brand-new Stand-up Comedy Specials Streaming Now"Vulture, December 30, 2024
  12. Conan, "Conan | Nathan Macintosh | Stand Up" January 31, 2017
  13. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, "Nathan Macintosh Does Not Want To Talk To Robots" October 6, 2017
  14. The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, "Losing Friends to Babies and Walking a Chihuahua" February 7, 2019
  15. The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, "Nathan Macintosh Stand-Up" February 17, 2023
  16. The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, "Tech Nerds Run the World" April 12, 2024
  17. Liz Heather, "Things I Would Email You If We Were Friends" August 13, 2025