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Dan Nainan Intell Engineer turned Indian comedian

Nainan was born in Bloomington, Indiana in 1981 to a nuclear physicist from India and child psychologist from Japan. ^[1] From 1997 to 2001, he worked as a Senior Engineer with Intel. ^[2]

Dan Nainan
Dan Nainan
Birth name	Daniel Nainan
Born	1981 Bloomington, Indiana, United States
Medium	stand-up, television, Radio
Nationality	Indian Japanese
Years active	2000–present
Genres	Satire, Improvisational comedy, Observational comedy
Subject(s)	political,multiculturalism, Indian culture
Notable works and roles	Dan Nainan: Thou Shalt Laugh
Website	DanielNainan.com

1 Break into comedy
2 Comedy
3 His work
4 Other hobbies
5 References
6 Articles written about Dan Nainan
7 External links

[edit] Break into comedy

As a demo Engineer for Intel part of Dan's job was to demonstrate on stage in front of thousands or even millions (if you count people watching on TV) how new devices worked. Dan found himself terrified of speaking in public. To get over his stage fright, Dan took a stand up comedy class. Dad realized he enjoyed comedy and began to pursue it.^[3]

Nainan had his first comedy performance at the Punch line in San Francisco. It was a resounding success. His co-workers then invited him to perform at a team dinner for 200 employees at the Comdex convention in Las Vegas. Upon seeing his performance he was asked to perform for 2500 from around the world at the Intel annual sales conference. Over the next two years he continued to perform and various Intel functions. Including holiday parties and corporate events many people thought that he was a hired professional comedian. In 2001 Nainan quit his job at Intell to pursue comedy full time.^[4]

[edit] Comedy

In April 2003 Dan won an open mike contest and the opportunity open for comedian Robert Schimmel, who invited Dan to perform at his shows in Honolulu, Hawaii. Schimmel was so impressed by Nainan’s act that he asked the young comedian to tour with him as his feature act at many of the top comedy clubs in the US. `

In 2004 Nainan was at the New York Improv where Canadian comic sensation Russel Peters was headlining. After Peters performed, there was extra time and Nainan begged to perform. Peters was impressed with Dan’s performance that he asked Dan to tour with him in 2005. Nainan and Peters toured both the US and Canada, performing at theater shows for audience that averaged around 1000.

In 2005 both Peters and Nainan performed to a sold out crowd at the legendary Apollo Theater in New York City, a show that Nainan produced. Peters became the first First South Asian to headline and sellout at the Apollo Theater in New York City. In addition to performing at the Apollo Theater Nainan has also performed at the Celebrity Theatre in Phoenix, Arizona,Royce Hall in Los Angeles, California and the Moore Theater in Seattle.

Nainan has been seen on NBC's Last Comic Standing and Saturday Night Live as well as on Nickelodeon and A&E. He has done a variety of TV commercials and appeared on many radio stations all over the US. Nainas has performed at various events for with Hillary Clinton, Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Howard Dean. He has been on tour with some of the top comedians in the country such as Jerry Seinfeld, Bob Saget, Tim Conway and Garry Shandling.

Currently Nainan performs at charity events, corporate functions, weddings, private parties, colleges and some of the top comedy clubs in the country. ^[5]

[edit] His work

Dan is a 100% clean comedian no curses no degradation and no profanity. He draws on inspiration from politics current events and his Indian heritage

[edit] Other hobbies

In addition to being a comedian Dan is also an musician, world traveler/adventurer and an extreme sport athlete. Dan sings plays guitar, bass, drums and cello. He also enjoys bunging jumping, scuba diving, skiing, rollerblading and skydiving. ^{[citation needed]}