Dan Tiernan is a British stand-up comedian from Manchester. In 2022 he was named "British Comedian of the Year", and the BBC New Comedy Award.
Dan has wanted to be a comedian for "as long as he can remember". "It is difficult to say exactly how long for, but as soon as I knew what stand-up was, I wanted to do it," he says.
It wasn't until he was 21, though, where he first "plucked up" the courage to give comedy a go, signing up to a course in Manchester to get started.
"I'd dabbled in lots of other careers before," he jokes. "When I was 12, I wanted to be a magician. Before that I wanted to be an actor… then I wanted to be a DJ, which is quite embarrassing, and then bizarrely a filmmaker."
He won The Frog and Bucket comedy club's "Beat the Frog" new stand-up competition in 2020. In 2021, he was a finalist in the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year at the Leicester Comedy Festival.
Dan's dyspraxia (which is a developmental co-ordination disorder, affecting physical coordination) forms the basis of many of his comedy routines.
