1. Daniel John Kitson was born on 2 July 1977 and is an English comedian, actor, performer and writer.
24 Facts About Daniel Kitson
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Daniel John Kitson was born in Denby Dale on 2 July 1977, the son of a primary school headteacher mother and a lecturer father.
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Daniel Kitson was a pupil at Scissett Middle School and Shelley College.
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Daniel Kitson subsequently studied drama at Roehampton Institute, now known as the University of Roehampton.
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Daniel Kitson was nominated for the 2001 Perrier Comedy Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for his show Love, Innocence and the Word Cock before winning it in 2002 for the show Something.
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In 2006, Daniel Kitson took Stories for the Wobbly Hearted to the Brits Off Broadway Festival in New York.
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In June 2006 the story show made up one half of his Regents Park Open Air Theatre appearance, where Daniel Kitson's stories were accompanied by songs from Gavin Osborn.
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Daniel Kitson's story show, C-90, opened at the Traverse for the 2006 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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In 2007, Daniel Kitson toured It's The Fireworks Talking and the story show C-90 in the UK, Australia, New York and Paris.
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In March 2012, Daniel Kitson took a brand new stand-up show, Where Once Was Wonder, on a work-in-progress tour around the UK before touring it in Australia and returning for the Edinburgh Fringe in August.
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Daniel Kitson debuted his new play Mouse: The Persistence of an Unlikely Thought at Liverpool Everyman in 2016.
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In 2017, Daniel Kitson performed his first stand-up comedy in over four years at The Roundhouse in July 2017 before taking it to The Royal Exchange, Manchester.
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In 2019, Daniel Kitson performed a run at the Battersea Arts Centre for a show entitled Keep.
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In 2020, during a period where many UK venues were closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Daniel Kitson toured a new show Dot.
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Daniel Kitson appeared in an episode of That Peter Kay Thing, "The Arena", and as Spencer in Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights.
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Daniel Kitson played a bus driver in the 2001 film Dog Eat Dog.
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In 2007, clips of Daniel Kitson's stand-up were shown on the one-off Channel 4 show 100 Greatest Stand-Ups where he came 27th.
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Chris Addison commented that 'Daniel Kitson is the finest comedian of his generation'.
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In late October 2024, Daniel Kitson made a guest appearance as himself in Series 18 of Taskmaster, being phoned up by one of the contestants.
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In 2006, Daniel Kitson began presenting his own weekly music-based radio show called The Listening Club.
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Daniel Kitson has appeared on the BBC Radio 4 show Loose Ends.
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Daniel Kitson appears in Episode 2 of the Flight of the Conchords radio series.
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Daniel Kitson can be heard on the BBC Radio 4 programme Tim Key Delves Into Daniil Kharms and That's All.
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Daniel Kitson has released audio and video recordings of some of his live shows on Bandcamp and Vimeo:.