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