Over the last decade Nathaniel Metcalfe has wasted his life indulging his obscure minor obsessions and now he needs to justify it to you and himself.

Nathaniel Metcalfe has been doing stand up since May 2007, and got through to the semi-finals of the So You Think You’re Funny? competition after only five gigs. In 2010 he got through to the semi-final of the Laughing Horse New Act of the Year and the final of the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year. That summer he also appeared as one third of the sketch group The Brotherhood of the Leaky Boot in Edinburgh. He is the only resident act at Josie Long‘s Lost Treasures of the Black Heart club and supported her on the Manchester date of her current UK tour in January 2011. He performed his first hour show at the Machynlleth Festival in May 2011 and hopes to take it to Edinburgh next year.

Here’s what some people have said about him:

“”brilliant and unusual and very funny”
-Josie Long

“Nathaniel Metcalfe is particularly engrossing with a surreal, meandering line of dry observations, delivered in an perfectly unsettling manner. His Sugar Puffs/Honey Monster comment is the stuff of dreams”
-Thomas Meek, The List Magazine

“…there was only one that really stood out. That was Nathaniel Metcalfe, an unassuming dude who had just one joke which he stretched out to five minutes, about the theme song to a movie called The Barefoot Executive, starring Kurt Russell and a monkey. It was a doozy.”
-Tracer Hand, freakytrigger.co.uk

“There is a touch of the Stewart Lee about his delivery as he employs long pauses, and a great deal of repetition to emphasise his points, but it’s Lee on ecstasy. A friendly, jovial enthusiastic fellow, he did well to take the show to an interval on a high note.”
-Corry Shaw, Chortle

“…a brilliant act with some strong, dry yet surreal observations. Thoroughly enjoyable.”
-Red Redmond, gigglebeats.co.uk

“…his zany, entertaining and sharp yet silly style.”
-Zoe Coutts, freecomedy.co.uk

This is a work in progress show.

Venue name & Address:
Etcetera Theatre
265 Camden High Street
London
NW1 7BU

Admission Price:
£5

Date:
Thursday 1st November 2012

Starting Time:
7.30pm

Nearest Tube:
Camden Town

Buy tickets here

Facebook event page

Here’s a list of my other upcoming gigs:

Tuesday 9th October 2012
Charity Chuckle,
Latest Music Bar,
14-17 Manchester Street,
Brighton,
East Sussex
BN2 1TF
8.30pm (8pm doors)
£8 (£5 concessions)
For tickets: call LMB on 01273 687171; or visit http://www.wegottickets.com/comedy/event/180574
Website
10 mins

Thursday 11th October 2012
Freedom of the Fringe,
The Torriano,
71-73 Torriano Avenue,
Kentish Town,
London
NW5 2SG
8pm (Doors 7.45pm)
Free
Website
10 mins new material

Monday 15th October 2012
Absolutely Free Comedy Night,
28 Rupert Street,
London
W1D 6DJ
Free
8.30pm (Doors 8pm)
10 mins new material

Tuesday 16th October 2012
The Painted Grin,
Benny’s Bar,
119a Bethnal Green Road,
London,
E2 7DG
8pm
Free
Blog
10 mins new material

Thursday 18th October 2012
Reading Comedy Festival New Act Competition,
McDevitts Studio,
21 South Street,
Reading
RG1 4QU
Free
8pm
Website
5 mins

Friday 19th October 2012
Big Green Bookshop Gig,
Unit One,
Brampton Park Road,
Wood Green,
London
N22 6BG
8pm
£5
Website
15 mins

Tuesday 23rd October 2012
New Acts at the Bedford,
The Bedford,
77 Bedford Hill,
Balham
SW12 9HD
8.30pm (doors 8pm)
£5
Website

Saturday 27th October 2012
Leytonstone Laughter Zone,
Luna Lounge,
7 Church Lane,
Leytonstone,
London,
E11 1HG
Free

Tuesday 30th October 2012
Party Piece,
Shaker & Company,
119 Hampstead Road,
London,
NW1 3EE
8pm (7.30pm doors)
Free
Facebook
New material 5 mins

Thursday 1st November 2012
Nathaniel Metcalfe: Enthusiast,
Etcetera Theatre,
265 Camden High Street,
London
NW1 7BU
7.30pm
£5
Book tickets

Friday 2nd November 2012
Comedy Cooler,
The Alibi Pub,
Victoria Terrace,
Hove,
BN3 2WB
8.30pm
£4 (£3 concessions)
5 mins

Saturday 17th November 2012
Angel Comedy,
The Camden Head,
2 Camden Passage,
London,
N1 8DY
8pm
Free
Website

Thursday 6th December 2012
Monkey Business Comedy Club,
The Oxford,
256 Kentish Town Road,
London,
NW5 2AA
8pm (doors 7pm)
£6.50 (£5 concessions)
Reservations: monkeybusinesscomedyclub@yahoo.co.uk or 07932 338203
Website

Sunday 9th December 2012
The Sunday Comedy Club,
The Grange,
Warwick Road,
Ealing Common,
London,
W5 3XH,
8pm (7pm doors),
£5
Book Online
Opening 20 Mins
Website

Thursday 13th December 2012
Josh Widdicombe & Friends,
Comedy at the Duke,
The Duke of Wellington,
119 Balls Pond Road,
London,
N1 4BL
7.30pm
£5
Website