Dan Nainan, the world's "favorite" 56-year old "millenial" "comedian"

he's getting namedropped around ILX enough that I figure he deserves his own thread

but mostly to share this amazing anecdote on Nainan's own website:

It was May 14, 2005. Dan had just finished a comedy class at the American Comedy Institute, and he asked one of his classmates if he wanted to go out and check out the Laugh Factory, which had just opened. The Laugh Factory is an institution in Los Angeles, and the owner was trying to make a foray into New York, a decision that would eventually prove disastrous.

Dan asked the gentleman at the door, Jack Keller, who seemed much too kind to be working at a comedy club, what was going on inside – he said that Bob Saget and Artie Lange were performing for the black-tie gala grand opening. Dan and his classmate were about to leave, and on a whim, Dan asked him if they could maybe poke their heads in and watch, fully expecting to be rebuked. However, Jack was nice enough to let them go upstairs and check it out.

Artie was on stage, doing a joke about crapping in his pants and then pulling over to the side of the road and pulling his pants down, and that bit was tame compared to what followed. While this was going on, Dan briefly met the owner, Jamie Masada, and gave him the standard pitch about being a clean comedian who was touring with Robert Schimmel, and he gave Dan the standard comedy club owner blowoff response, “Send me a tape”.

Artie’s material was mostly met with stony silence. Bob Saget didn’t fare much better. Bob has such a clean-cut image from having been the host of “America’s Funniest Home Videos” and “Full House”. So when he performs, the audiences are usually shocked at how filthy his material is. Dan thought he was hilarious, but again, the older black-tie crowd just wasn’t digging it. Dan briefly walked out of the showroom to use the restroom, and Jamie rushed up to him, desperation in his eyes, asking “You work clean?” “Absolutely, only clean material”, Dan replied honestly. “You go perform for five minutes.” (Imagine this being said Jamie’s very thick Iranian-Jewish accent.)

Next thing Dan knew, they handed Bob a piece of paper, whereupon he announced “We have one more comedian for you tonight; please welcome Mr. Dan Nainan.” Dan took the stage, tremendously nervous about following one of the most successful and well-known comedians in the country – and proceeded to absolutely bring the house down. They never gave him the light, so Dan kept going and ended his set to thunderous applause.

Dan was mobbed by everyone afterwards, and Bob came up to him, pumped his hand and, right there in front of him, told Jamie that he wanted Dan to open for him for the rest of the weekend, which is exactly what ended up happening.

On the way out, Dan thanked Jack profusely, pumping his hand, and Jack kindly said “See what happens when you are nice?”

this guy is a fuckin’ hero

he’s also very bad

also, as i understand it, he buys his sushi at the 7/11

I've heard he puts a little curry on it first

the guy can command a room

One of Nainan's jokes is a riff on the Chelsea bombing where the punchline is that it was a Galaxy Note 7 https://t.co/KKUqG5k2hx pic.twitter.com/PWgSTHqF0A

— Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) October 20, 2017

a 35-year-old comedian and a 50-year-old billionaire bond over their love of thumbs

http://www.asianfortunenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/36.jpg

whoa whoa I thought this dude was supposed to be clean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDVkLDElFok&feature=youtu.be&t=22m51s

this is maybe the most painful thing i’ve ever seen

https://youtu.be/FDVkLDElFok

This dude is a hilarious phenomenon but I don’t know what to post ITT other than just repeating Chapo and CumTown jokes about him.

As painful as the dude is to watch, I'm somewhat inured to his stylings inasmuch as I've taken my share of improv classes and there's a variation on Dan Nainan in pretty much every improv class (nb, I was probably the Dan Nainan a time or two).

Actually, if the Nainan you get in your class is only at Nainan levels of O_o you're fairly lucky (example: for those aware of his infamous audition video, I had two improv classes with Br00ks Chr1sty).

This dude is a hilarious phenomenon but I don’t know what to post ITT other than just repeating Chapo and CumTown jokes about him.

― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive)

maybe you should try plugging in the new Samsung Galaxy S8 phone
then we'd have a party

alright good crowd already

https://i.imgur.com/qvmpbJP.png

lol the photo of him in front of his car and a plane. what is it w people think they are all Lee Iacocca or something...

just imagine headlining at a club. i can't even picture that kind of success.

getting total backstage access, plus a cut of the door money.

performing for up to an hour and a half in between several other pre-scheduled acts.

drink tickets good for up to two, possibly three, mixes drinks (well liquor).

by the way i have done many bar shows in New York. jealous?

You can make fun of birthday parties all you want

four figures plus Denny's

Dan Nainan is a complete sociopath who used to lie to get on bills with Bob Schimmel & then called Schimmel's relatives after he died and told them what a piece of shit Schimmel was.

dude is utterly shameless, absolutely terrible at his job, and brazenly lies about himself to get ahead, he's actually the perfect comedian for the Donald Trump era

btw I sat through that ENTIRE Tesla set, I think he gets three laughs in thirty minutes

not three jokes that land mind you, I mean three individual laughs from three individual people

there's something actively surreal about it, as many of the comments (totally pro-read btw) have pointed out it's like a TED talk, except he randomly goes "aaaanyway..." and changes topics. it's like those vids of the Big Bang Theory with all the laughter removed. it's actively uncomfortable and if I sat through the whole thing one of you should too

This is the guy who rambles on for ages and finishes with a horribly formed 'joke' after which he goes to great lengths to explain why the joke was funny, right?

Dan Nainan, the "world's" "favorite" 56-year old "millenial" "comedian"

'Rupees... Pakistani rupees...... Because they're worth half as much as Indian rupees by the way'

Where does he get his sushi

Dan Nainan will be performing comedy at one of the Inaugural Balls. Hopefully it goes better than this interview did. (by @ToddDracula) pic.twitter.com/XVfYX9iTLp

— CAFE (@cafedotcom) January 17, 2017

he's a real life Vic Berger video edit

tfw a 55-second video is too painful to watch all the way through

only because there's no audience to laugh at his John McCain suicide joke

(Imagine this being said Jamie’s very thick Iranian-Jewish accent.)

I'm still sitting here wide-eyed at this aside in the anecdote kicking off the thread

I want clarification on whether Dan does a funny fake accent when he relates this irl

"funny" I mean

https://i.redd.it/kxb88s87i2d01.jpg

damn, four-figure appearances. Get one of those every single week and you've got a middle class living.

the best thing about that samsung galaxy note 7 joke clip is that he emphasizes that the bombing had been a year ago, which means he has kept that joke in his rotation for a full year, to the point that he actually has to remind people of the context, since it was actually not that major an event.

When you reach 100 years old in Barbados, you get a stamp in your honour. Lovely. pic.twitter.com/LBqFeAj2LD

— Andrew S👻 (@bn2b) January 29, 2018

This was quite well done.

Ha

that John Mccain clip. wow

I love that this guy still whips out his Bill Clinton impression at every show he does despite being just a wee baby when Clinton was president

does anyone know which episode of WTF Maron reads the note from Dan (he doesn't mention his name)?