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 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 this year. Nathaniel could recently be heard on James Acaster’s Findings on BBC Radio 4. Nathaniel likes to write about himself in the third person.

Here’s some footage of him on You Tube.

And here’s some more.

Here’s what some people have said about him:

“wonderfully quirky” -Time Out

“”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 was a fair amount of noise and movement for the first few minutes of his set, which he dealt with well, eventually hitting his stride with a light-hearted deconstruction of an old Disney theme song. 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

“Nathaniel does jokes that are so funny that you repeat them to your friends later although you get it wrong and forget a few bits, and they don’t laugh, but you do because you are remembering how funny his joke was, especially the Sugar Puffs one, but he tells them in a really funny way that is difficult to emulate” – Sara Pascoe

Here’s a list of some of the places he’s gigged at:
XS Malarkey
Up The Creek
Arts Theatre
Battersea Arts Centre
Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh
SLTee-Hee-Hee, South London Theatre
Quay Arts Centre, Isle of Wight
The Bedford
Richard Sandling’s Perfect Movie
The Fix Presents the Stephen Carlin Project
Downstairs at the King’s Head
Terry the Stand Up Gigs – Claygate, Redhill, Reigate, Merstham, & Warlingham
Pear Shaped, Soho
FlySeyEs, Kettering
Comedy Rocket
Comedy Lake
Salt Box Comedy
Matt Whistler’s Radio West Pier Comedy/ Variety & Film night
Stand and Deliver
Geek Night Out
PBH’s Free Fringe
Charity Chuckle
West End Comedy Club
Abridged Fringe
Comedy at the Grape
The Mercat
Fell Foot Sound
Bestival
Porthole Comedy
Etcetera Theatre
Comedy at The White Heart
Comedy Cellar
The Fix Presents… Stand-Up
The Queen’s Theatre
Squat Betty Alternative Comedy Club
Frieze Art Fair
Lost Treasures of the Black Heart
Sunday Night Adventure Club
Set-Up Punchline
Bed Wetter’s Comedy
Comedy on the Hill
Comedy at the College
Comedy Festival
The Alpine Club
Hackney Empire
Stand Up and Coming
We Love Comedy
Too Much Information
Mango Laughin’
The Ideas Factory
Clown Chowder
EdComedy at the Hob
Giggling Gibbon
Comedy Mayhem
Freedom of the Fringe
The Duke’s Headliners
Richard Sandling’s New Material Night
Windsor School
Funny Peculiar
The Junket Club
Rob Deb’s Nerdgasm
All Saints School
Ka-Boom Comedy
Royal Mile Comedy
Comedy Loch
Peter Buckley-Hill and Some Comedians
TNT Comedy
Comedy @ The Treehouse
Lonestar Comedy
Old Red Lion Theatre
HAM Comedy
Leicester Square Theatre
Mavericks
The Underground Restaurant Comedy Night
Comedy @ The Temperance
Comedy Boutique
Air Accordion Society
Positively Tuesdays
Decapitated Puppy
Comageddon
The After School Club
Angel Comedy
The Three Pipe Problem
Absolutely Free Comedy Night
The Lion’s Den
A Night at the Dogs
Anything Goes Sunday Club
Funny How?
Jokes From the Underground
Mixt Nutz
Party Piece
Ship of Fools
Electric Mouse – Earl’s Court & Westminister
Knock2New
Monkey Business
Wibbly Wobbly Boat
Bath House Comedy Club
The Washington, Chalk Farm
Live Bar, Deptford
Laughing Horse (various gigs)

Here’s a link to some audio of a gig he did in 2008 performing some of his older material.

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Here’s links to Richard Sandling’s Perfect Movie show where you can see a small portion of his stand up set alongside others.
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