Dan Nainan
Daniel Nainan is an American comedian. He is known for performing ethnic jokes involving his South-Asian ethnicity.
Background
Early life
Daniel Nainan was born in May 1961. His father is Indian Malayali and his mother is Japanese. He majored in business at the University of Maryland.Career
Nainan's stand-up performances usually take place at corporate events. "There's so much money to be made with corporations, weddings, senior-citizen centers," he told the Washington Post in 2010. He has also made media appearances where he presented himself as a millennial, expressing his opinions on societal issues, though he was later revealed to be older than he presented as. In one instance, he performed a stand-up session for Barack Obama.In June 2013, Nainan told the New York Times that he had bought over a thousand Twitter followers. In September of the same year, Nainan was arrested and charged with simple assault after he punched Daily Beast journalist Josh Rogin in Washington, D.C. The incident happened after Rogin published a social media post criticizing Nainan's act. Nainan later pleaded guilty and served probation.
In 2017, the Daily Beast published an article contesting Nainan's statements that he was a millennial. According to the article, a legal document from a New York court stated that Nainan was born in May 1961. Prior to the Daily Beasts article, in 2012, Nainan had told the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal that he was 31 and 36 years old, respectively.