ChadDaniels

Eight records, three of them Billboard top ten. Empty Nester, his Netflix hour, now free on YouTube. He’s been a comedian longer than he wasn’t.

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The Netflix hour · now free on YouTube

Chad Daniels: Empty Nester, the full comedy special.

His first Netflix special, recorded at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul. Now the full hour is free on his own YouTube channel.

Everything before it

For Reels2025 · Full special

Mixed Reviews2023 · Full special

Twelfth Night2021 · Full special

Dad Chaniels2019 · Full special

Records and podcasts

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For Reels2025 · Also a special

Mixed Reviews2023 · Also a special

Twelfth Night2021 · Also a special

Dad Chaniels2019 · Also a special

Footprints on the Moon2017 · Billboard No. 2

Natural Selection2014

You're the Best2012

Busy Being Awesome2009

Two podcasts

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Middle of Somewhere

Chad Daniels & Cy Amundson

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Pretend Problems

Chad Daniels & Kelsey Cook

Chad Daniels on stage at Cobb's Comedy Club, microphone in hand, the club's neon sign lit behind him and the room in silhouette.

Minnesota

He stayed

Chad Daniels has been doing this since 1998, when he went up at an open mic at ACME in Minneapolis and then took a job hosting six shows a week in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Twenty-eight years later he still lives in Minnesota.

Eight records, three of them Billboard top ten, over one billion streams combined. Eight late-night sets. One of thirteen comics to do The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien.

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