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Chad Daniels

American comedian Chad Daniels hails from Fergus Falls, Minnesota. Three of his comedy albums have made it into the top 10 on the Billboard comedy charts. Footprints On The Moon was No. 2 in 2017, Dad Chaniels was No. 6 in 2019, and Natural Selection was No. 7 in 2014. Over 700 million listeners have streamed his discography as of early 2019. Footprints on the Moon was also the top comedy song on iTunes.

Early Life

Chad Daniels was born on March 2, 1975. This well-known comedian doesn't talk about his family. In 1993, he graduated from Fergus Falls High School. After a few years, this school became known as Kennedy Secondary School.

Career

Mark Deming, an Allmusic critic, said Daniel's comedy has a "skewed, often dark view" of family life. At an open mic night hosted by the ACME Comedy Company in Minneapolis back in 1998, he first tried his hand at stand-up comedy.

Between 1998 and 1999, he hosted six shows per week as the house emcee at the Westward Ho comedy club in Grand Forks, North Dakota. At the 2003 Laugh Riots competition hosted by Comedy Central, he made it down to the final three. Then, in 2009, a Minneapolis alternative weekly called City Pages named him Artist of the Year in comedy.

He also did shows at the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal in 2004 and 2012. He and a fellow comedian named Cy Amundson host a weekly podcast called Middle of Somewhere. But in the 2010 Stand-Up Showdown on Comedy Central, viewers chose his half-hour special from 2008 as the fifth-best special of all time.

Has been in two one-hour specials: As Is in 2012 and Chad Daniels: Dad Chaniels(2019), and in a documentary by J. Elvis Weinstein, I Need You To Kill. This comedian won the grand prize of $10,000 at Gilda's LaughFest in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 2012.

Chad Daniels has released seven albums: three with 800 Pound Gorilla Records and three with Stand Up! Records, and one that he made himself.

He and Brett Watson put You're The Best in the list of top 10 comedy albums of 2012 on the website. Jake Austen of Roctober magazine was impressed by Daniel's ability to make funny jokes about his family and airline food on his early albums.