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, the same year he performed on Rosie Jones's Disability Comedy Extravaganza. He took a comedy course at the age of 21, won the Frog and Bucket Comedy Club's "Beat the Frog" new stand-up competition in 2020, and in 2021 was a finalist in the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year at the Leicester Comedy Festival.

In 2023 Tiernan performed his debut hour at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, "Going Under", to positive reviews, receiving a nomination for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Award and winning Best Newcomer at the ISH Comedy Awards. That September he portrayed Logan Padmore in an episode of the BBC soap opera Doctors, and he also appeared over multiple episodes of Comedy Central Live (Series 2) and The Stand Up Sketch Show (Series 5). In 2024 he was a guest on QI, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and The Last Leg In Paris, and in December 2024 he performed on Live at the Apollo.

In 2025 Tiernan took the show "All In" to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, again to positive reviews, earning a nomination for Best Show at the Edinburgh Comedy Award. While at the Fringe he also performed at Fern Brady Presents: Comedy At The Fringe and Channel 4's A Comedy Thing LIVE!, and outside the Fringe he starred in Channel 4's A Comedy Thing, performed in Mitchell And Webb Are Not Helping, and judged on the BBC New Comedy Awards 2025. He attended Hulme Hall school and later the University of Salford. Tiernan is dyspraxic, is gay, and has a younger sister.