Dan Mitchell (comedian)
Encyclopedia
Dan Mitchell is a Welsh
-born comedian
originally from Brechfa
, a village near Carmarthen
. In his youth, Dan had a fascination with comics and comedy. Having had his comedy appetite raised by running the local pub quiz , he started his career in comedy in 2005 and ran a regular stand-up night, which he compered, at Cardiff’s Pen and Wig pub. He also ran comedy panel show, "Panel 9 from Outer Space", with fellow comedian Clint Edwards and friend Laura Bryon.
Dan Mitchell finished 2nd in the 2011 ITV
reality/talent series Show Me The Funny
.
He was diagnosed at age seventeen with Tonic Clonic epilepsy, the absurdities of which he often talks about in his comedy act.
s DVDs "The Award Winning Mince Pie" and "The Cat that looked like Nicholas Lyndhurst
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Wales
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
-born comedian
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...
originally from Brechfa
Brechfa
Brechfa is a village in Carmarthenshire, Wales that has existed since the 6th century.- Location and amenities :Brechfa is set in countryside managed by the Forestry Commission or Forest Enterprise at the top of the Cothi Valley. The village is the site of Brechfa Mountain Biking...
, a village near Carmarthen
Carmarthen
Carmarthen is a community in, and the county town of, Carmarthenshire, Wales. It is sited on the River Towy north of its mouth at Carmarthen Bay. In 2001, the population was 14,648....
. In his youth, Dan had a fascination with comics and comedy. Having had his comedy appetite raised by running the local pub quiz , he started his career in comedy in 2005 and ran a regular stand-up night, which he compered, at Cardiff’s Pen and Wig pub. He also ran comedy panel show, "Panel 9 from Outer Space", with fellow comedian Clint Edwards and friend Laura Bryon.
Dan Mitchell finished 2nd in the 2011 ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
reality/talent series Show Me The Funny
Show Me The Funny
Show Me The Funny was a British reality show in which a group of ten comedians of varying experience visit ten different cities around the UK, performing tasks that are somehow meant to equip them with local knowledge to work into five-minute-long new live routines, which they then showcase in...
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He was diagnosed at age seventeen with Tonic Clonic epilepsy, the absurdities of which he often talks about in his comedy act.
Television
- 2011 - He was a contestant in the UK TV comedy competition "Show me the Funny" and finished 2nd.
- 2007 - The Comedy Club 'Funny Business' final which aired on prime-time BBC2 Wales in Jan/Feb 08.
- The Big Welsh Joke
- Pobol y CwmPobol y CwmPobol y Cwm is a Welsh-language television soap opera which has been produced by the BBC since October 1974. The longest-running television soap opera produced by the BBC, Pobol y Cwm was originally transmitted on BBC Wales television and later transferred to the Welsh-language station S4C when it...
DVDs
He appears in the extras of Rhod GilbertRhod Gilbert
Rhodri "Rhod" Gilbert, is a Welsh comedian who was nominated in 2005 for the Perrier Best Newcomer Award. In 2008, he was nominated for the main if.comedy ....
s DVDs "The Award Winning Mince Pie" and "The Cat that looked like Nicholas Lyndhurst
Nicholas Lyndhurst
Nicholas Simon Lyndhurst is an English actor. He is best known for his roles as Rodney Trotter in Only Fools and Horses, Gary Sparrow in Goodnight Sweetheart, and as Adam Parkinson in Carla Lane's series Butterflies...
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Radio
- He was a regular panellist on the BBC Radio Wales comedy program What's the Story?
- The Rhodri WilliamsRhodri WilliamsRhodri Williams is a Welsh sports journalist from Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.He was a main anchor for Sky channel Sky Sports News and was one of Sky's main rugby presenters - hosting the Heineken Cup and Southern Hemisphere rugby including the Tri Nations, the NPC in New Zealand and the...
Show
Theatre
- In July 2011 he performed in the Comedy play 'Humanzee' as part of Cardiff Comedy Festival 2011.
- He co wrote and appeared in sell out murder mystery play "And the Killer is..?" with Becky Brynolf.
Competitions
- Finalist - Budweiser’s Legends of Laughter (2006)
- Welsh Comedy FestivalWelsh comedy festivalThe Welsh Comedy Festival is the first Welsh Comedy Festival to be held in partnership with the Welsh children's hospice charity, Tŷ Hafan. It hosting a wide range of comedy performances and acts during the period 6–15 July 2007...
- Filmed by the BBCBBCThe British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
as part of their Funny Business series, screened in Autumn 2007. This series highlighted the burgeoning comic scene in Cardiff and also followed the ups and downs of hundreds of comedians all hoping to secure a £30,000 contract. - Welsh Unsigned Stand-up Award (2010)
External links
- http://twitter.com/#!/specilepticDan Mitchell on TwitterTwitterTwitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
] - http://standuplookdown.tumblr.com/Dan Mitchell's BlogBlogA blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...
] - His 'ask me anything page'
- http://www.youtube.com/user/specilepticHis YoutubeYouTubeYouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
channel] - http://www.myspace.com/specilepticDan's MySpaceMySpaceMyspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....
page] - Dan's routine in Episode 2 of Show me the funny