Dan Tiernan

Dan Tiernan (born 1996 ) is a British stand-up comedian and actor from Stockport. In 2022, he was named "British Comedian of the Year", and won the BBC New Comedy Award.

Career
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 September 2023, he portrayed Logan Padmore in an episode of the BBC soap opera Doctors.

In 2023, Tiernan performed his debut hour at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, "Going Under", to positive reviews.

Personal life
Tiernan is neurodivergent and dyspraxic. He is gay. He has a younger sister.