Hi gang,

My name is Nathaniel Metcalfe and I have been doing stand up since May 2007. I got to the semi-finals of “So You Think You’re Funny?” in that year and the quarter finals of the “Laughing Horse New Act of the Year” in 2008, 2009 and 2010. This year I was a finalist in the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year. I’ve done well over 100 gigs and can do anything up to 20 minutes.

Here’s what some people have said about me:

“”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

“…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 I’ve gigged:
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
Squat Betty Alternative Comedy Club
Set-Up Punchline
Bedwetters 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
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 I did last year performing some of my older material.

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

Thank you for reading.