Dan Tiernan
British comedian
Dan Tiernan (born 1996) is a British stand-up comedian and actor. In 2022, he was named "British Comedian of the Year", and won the BBC New Comedy Award.
Career
Born in Stockport, Tiernan took a comedy course at age 21.
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.
In 2022, he performed on Rosie Jones's Disability Comedy Extravaganza (Series 1). Dan then went on to compete in and win BBC New Comedy Award 2022 and the British Comedian Of The Year 2022.
In September 2023, he portrayed Logan Padmore in an episode of the BBC soap opera Doctors, Comedy Central Live - Series 2 and The Stand Up Sketch Show - Series 5 over multiple episodes.
In 2023, Tiernan performed his debut hour at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, "Going Under", to positive reviews. He received a nomination for Best Newcomer at Edinburgh Comedy Award 2023 and won Best Newcomer at the ISH Comedy Awards 2023.
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