The Rise and Fall of Dan Nainan

I'm reloading this video after Dan nine instruct the previous one down I've removed any and all of the footage that belongs him so hopefully now he has no grounds to strike it again silly me I thought there would be more counter measures for content creators to take when someone abuses a copyright system and falsely takes your video down in order to censor criticism but clearly my thinking was naive and YouTube's copyright system is far more broken than I ever anticipated I'd like to thank Wang who helped get the word out about the strike dudes awesome and he makes great content so go sub to him if you haven't already and I'd also like to thank Joe Robinson and Rob Maher who invited me into the show after received the strike I uploaded that interview on to my channel so check it out if you're interested the previous upload began with clips of Dan nine and surrenders comedy but since those clips were the reason he was able to strike my video instead start by reading this advertisement for one of his shows Dan's been doing the same act since he started comedy and I guess these are meant to be a collection of his best jokes okay so let me read this thing my dad is from India my mom is from Japan I get my sushi from 7-eleven I'm like Harold and Kumar thank God my name is easy and not some weird Indo Japanese combination like Sanjay Hashimoto or Mahatma Mitsubishi people often tell me Dan your dad is from India your mom is from Japan so that makes you half asian to me dan Dinan is obviously a hack I mean it's it's just hot it's not debatable and if you don't believe me feel free to pause this video and watch some of his stand-up yeah so like I said total hack but if he was only guilty of crimes against comedy then he would it be worth making a video about now would he dance special because he's probably the most hated man in the American comedy scene he's garnered this reputation by lying scheming getting other comedians fired from shows poaching their gigs harassing them and a host of other unscrupulous actions yes underneath his straight-laced aw shucks facade is a Machiavellian wolf in sheep's clothing who bites in 2017 a Daily Beast article called Dan 9 in the media's favorite millennial is 55 years old was published the subheading read Dan 9 in' is known as a 35 year old former Intel engineer who now makes millions as a comedian the fact that he's 20 years older is the least weird part of his story on Twitter comedians rejoiced they celebrated it as the comedy world's persona non-grata finally got his comeuppance even comedy superstars like Russell Peters took their shots at Dan he wrote good job exposing the sociopath that is a 55 year old man child in a tweet praising Ben Collins the journalist responsible for the piece weirdly enough a banner advertising that he's on tour with Russell Peters is still featured on Dan 9-inch web site I sent a tweet to comedian Rob Maher asking if he'd talked to me about him he responded by satirically listing the numerous lies and boasts that Dan is known for one he's not a millennial - he doesn't charter private jets 3e doesn't make 330 grand a year telling jokes for he can't dunk a basketball 5 he does enjoy steak anything else Rob Maher was part of a list of comics who Dan sent thousands of unsolicited emails to because at one point or another they made fun of how terrible he is at stand-up comedy in the emails he brags about how amazing his life is compared to theirs calls them broke drug-addicted bitter jaded losers who think they're hot [ __ ] but don't make a fraction of what he does and he also informs them about how much he's raking in performing comedy across the globe is Joe the first person he ever started these emails with those daily e-mails of taunt I mean taunting relentless taunting it's what I mean you admit that right like it's it was like you're sending I'm in first class I'm going to this gig you're a poor piece of [ __ ] with a date not a piece of [ __ ] but with a day job and you don't get gigs and you're working bars for $10 I'm at the White House I'm at like it's taunting its various cuz these people are saying I am NOT funny and that they're so much funnier than I am you know I spoke to another comedian who asked to remain unnamed as we were talking he called Dan everything from evil to dangerous to a pathological liar he told me quote they never stopped like he'd email me multiple times on Thanksgiving and Christmas morning bragging about flights he was on he would have pictures of me and my family on his iPad it was too much he's demented he said that at first he thought oh he's just an insane open-mike her or some loser who is bitter but then he gets really dark and you're like oh he's seriously deranged as we were saying or goodbye as he warned me to be careful I'm fascinated by this because if what these guys are saying if what Rob and Joe are a legend you're [ __ ] not you agree I mean this is insane level [ __ ] I reached out to Dan 9:00 in on Instagram he blocked me the next day cold but it did nothing to deter me since almost everything I wanted to know could be found online a comedian named Brian McGinnis has a tumblr page where he made 34 emails he received from Dan available for public consumption it's titled Dan 9 and is the worst human being ever the definitive email collection underneath Brian wrote a quick introduction if you don't know already there's a comedian named Dan 9 he is the worst human being that has ever lived as the following post will prove 100 percent these are a collection of emails he's been sending me for about a year now completely unedited and unchanged the first email reads subject line 8,000 dollars for a show and to buy may a globe just a bit thank you I just received the initial deposit for a corporate show and to buy that's coming up in a couple of weeks the show pays $8,000 yes that's right eight thousand US dollars for less than one hours worth and yes I'll be flying in first class as usual an unbelievable luxury with a flatbed I'll be checking out the indoor ski range surfing on the sand dunes visiting the tallest building in the world and the world's largest shopping mall and luxurious a par of my five-star hotel and yes I will send pictures I know I shouldn't be gloating and I know I should be spending my time working on my book in preparation for my upcoming meeting with my literary agent and I know it really pisses off poor ass alcoholic drug-addicted comedians when you tell them how much money you make but when something like this happens such as the $15,000 corporate show I did earlier this year in San Francisco or dealing with the deluge of royalty checks for my Apple commercial $22,000 so far and sank health insurance thank you I just can't help but think about all the people who told me and still tell me that I'm a hack and that I shouldn't be doing ethnic material I'm a cèlle and so forth I can't help but think about all the club Booker's in New York turn me down and continue to turn me down about all the comedians who brag about their credits on premium blend live at Gotham Jimmy Kimmel and comics unleashed who still have day jobs and drive hundreds of miles their crappy occasional gigs that pay three digits and that get drunk and smoke weed after the shows and stay up til the early morning I can't help but think about the witty clever New York comics who are passed at all the clubs whom you can't even recognize if you haven't seen them in a year or two because they've aged so much oh the joy and the shite and Freud ah yes indeed I'll be reminiscing about all of this on the long plane ride to the hemorrhoids with a shit-eating grin on my face he signs off with Dan nine in' comedian slash actor slash voice-over artist slash computer genius new york / beverly hills two one two four one four 21:29 WWE n calm as you can see Dan einen is the type of guy who can't get enough of the smell of his own farts and subsequent emails share the same smug self-satisfied tone like I said dan kept a list of comedians who criticises material and set them emails bragging about how much better off he is than they are and Dan's mind since they think they're funnier than he is well then they should be doing just as well as him my unnamed source told me that the email chain consisted of quote a shitload of comics altogether there's probably thousands of emails out there just like this one why do you like there are so many people in this world in this country that talk [ __ ] about me I mean that's waste of your energy to like care people people don't like your joke but you see Joe if a loser like yourself okay in 2013 Joe Robinson a comedian and radio host met Dan after they did a show together and a Hyatt in Bethesda Maryland Joe was the headliner and Dan was the emcee Joe told The Daily Beast quote after the show he sold a book a DVD and a CD he's at eight minutes of comedy so I decided to say something about it about how he shouldn't be selling a book about how to make it in comedy if he's emceeing at Ohio Joe talked about his exchange with Dan on a podcast he shares with comedian Rob Maher and after that Joe Robinson was added to the infamous email chain I contacted Joe and he told me that Dan sent him over a hundred emails he told The Daily Beast that at their peak they'd come in a few times per day Dan even tried to get Joe fired from his radio job by doing a criminal history check and then talking to his employers when that didn't work Dan challenged him to a fight to the death on the Isle of Man for some reason he thought it was legal to engage in hand-to-hand mortal combat they're not sure where he read that but it's not but I got to give credit to Dan it's probably the funniest thing he's ever written to understand Dan nine and better let's start from the beginning Dan Nyhan was born in Bloomington Indiana in May of 1961 I repeat 1961 he was not born as it claims on his website in 1981 his father is a nuclear physicist from India and his mother is a child psychologist from Kyoto Japan he describes his childhood as a troubled one not because of his parents who he says were loving and supportive but instead because he was tormented by bullies at school well my parents were and are fantastic my problem though stemmed from problems with my peers and I was very brutally bullied and an outcast and just just had no friends and it was very it was a very tough childhood he majored in general business and management at the University of Maryland in 1996 he was hired by Intel at their corporate headquarters located in Santa Clara California there he was tasked with performing technical demonstrations at Intel events around the world suffering from a fear of public speaking he sought out a class that could help him ease his anxiety while on stage Toastmasters helped but not enough so he joined a comedy class in the year 2000 he took a promotion as Intel strategic relations manager for the east coast which relocated him to New York City he said that quote even though it paid a lot more money I hated it no travel no playing with technology and I was home-based and rarely got to see any coworkers I was absolutely bored he says that after watching planes crash into the World Trade Center from his corner in Manhattan and after seeing so many people died right in front of him he realized that his life needed to change so he left his job at Intel in order to pursue comedy full-time okay that's weird because in a New York Post article from 2009 called second acts Dan says he was fired from Intel not that he was compelled to quit after witnessing 9/11 in a Business Insider article called five people who radically altered their careers after 9/11 it says on September 11th dan was able to watch both Towers fall from his corner in Manhattan New York City after watching so many people died right in front of him he realized that he needed to change he left his job to pursue comedy full-time so yet again this time from a Huffington Post blog it says that he was laid off in 2007 which doesn't really make sense because there is definite proof that he was well into his comedy career by that point so Dan which one was it were you fired from Intel in 2007 or did 9/11 compel you to quit and pursue a comedy career keep everything butchers stories straight right there right Dan's comedy career took off quite quickly within a few years he was already touring with successful comedians like Bob Saget Robert Schimmel and Russell Peters and in less than a decade he was making a good living as a stand-up comedian but something was missing for all of his accomplishments he never earned any respect from his peers other comedians found his material insipid and uninspired they saw him as a hack who used racial jokes as a crutch and boy did they let him know just as he was an outcast during his formative years he was also an outsider in the comedy scene here's an excerpt from his book the best book on how to become a full-time stand-up comedian yes that is the title and yes I actually did read the thing where he talks about joining a comics roundtable workshop with 10 other comedians and calls it quote the most awful experience imaginable nobody laughed at any of each other's jokes of course I laughed at all the jokes because I love to laugh comedians are notorious for not laughing when they're offstage I was seen as the weak link in the roundtable even though my stuff was already killing in clubs they even held a remedial meeting for two comedians whom they thought were the weakest and I was one of them needless to say the group self-destructed in another chapter he writes when I started out I was part of an online forum that was absolutely awful I was the target of a tremendous amount of vitriol because of the ethnic nature of my act now that I have a successful career the last thing I want to do is waste my time trading insults with a bunch of comedians were bitter jaded and angry because their careers have gone nowhere now we already know this but although he wrote that he sees trading insults with other comedians as waste of time he ironically devoted a lot of energy to doing precisely that by writing them unsolicited emails and one such email he says that he sent them to people who rejected me from performing in their clubs or told me I would never go anywhere in comedy or told me on a hack etc once in a while I like to send emails like that out to people who fit that description just to let them know how well I'm doing and that my reality is brighter than their dreams I'm different from other comedians I used their rejections as fuel as motivation to reach even greater heights another email sharing the same sentiment reads every time I have a victory I think about you guys you provide me with tremendous motivation I owe you a world of thanks last night as I was being introduced I had tears of joy in my eyes it was incredible ten thousand dollars just to talk for 45 minutes in a beautiful resort what a crazy business this is how sad that you will never experience anything like this even though you could he ends the email by signing off with sent for my ridiculously overpriced iPad to show [ __ ] so you got a one you were a failure you failed you quit comedy because you saw Dave Chappelle and then you then when I met you you said you said you'd already couldn't you quit comedy twice Joe you quit comedy twice and you're nowhere you do like you know these shows in our beauties and boobies and you have a day job and Europe frickin failure okay you're a failure Joe so is jail Cobb man and so now rob is actually putting and and so is Pam I know you're not so how does an unfunny and unlikable comedian build a career in a field in which those two things are presumably not only an asset but also a must well that's because he's a natural marketer with a low moral barometer which as we all know is synonymous with born liar Dan credits this YouTube video with being responsible for getting booked in 28 countries and on five continents he uploaded it in 2006 and filled the description box with his contact info which proved to be a smart move he says that calls and emails still come in once or twice a week from people who see it and want to book them by the way let's just say let's let's take a look at the comments because none of them seem genuine honestly the whole comment section just seems like Dan is talking to his BOTS like this comment here for example dan you're so funny I laughed until I cried thank you for being clean I'm tired of the filth passed off as comedy may you skyrocketed in popularity good man I mean that's that's totally Dan right and who else would add that they're tired of belt passed off his comedy other than the 100% clean Indian comedian himself anyway uh let's just uh let's check out some of his other videos oh he plays the violin okay guess not wait what are the comments what are people saying oh I hope I went a mile in I'm never quit I mean hey pal that's my sixth instrument and that was the first day I was playing you're horrible at it no no I was I was horrible at it at that time Joe was my first day I'd never had a lesson dan used a site called help a reporter out which pairs journalists with sources in order to garner a hell of a lot of free publicity he appeared in Forbes the Chicago Tribune Business Insider CNN The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times on at least six occasions a fact that could be found plastered all over his web site now here's the issue Dan wasn't a credible source like at all and as a consequence he's labeled as a millennia and hundreds of articles even though he's pushing 60 Dan claimed to be 35 in a cosmopolitan article called why are some Millennials swearing off porn he was 31 in a New York Times article called buying their way to Twitter Fame where he copped to buying 220,000 Twitter followers for four hundred and twenty four dollars and 15 cents in 2011 he told The Wall Street Journal that he was 36 that same year he appeared on a website called 20 as a 29 year old even though he was 51 at the time 20 is a site which caters to readers in their 20s so in that case it's probably right where Dan belongs by bending the truth Dan gained free publicity people would read about him and think wow this guy's amazing he's only 29 but he's already done so much he's worked in Silicon Valley and then transitioned into a successful career as a comedian just what can't this kid do several years ago there was a buzz surrounding a former marketer named Ryan Holliday who was able to dupe the media and printing anything he wanted just like Dan he did this by using help a reporter out he even wrote a book detailing his process called trust me I'm lying confessions of a media manipulator fun fact the most recent edition of the book begins with a preface that mentions Dan 9 in any way I've collected some quotes from the book that explained how Dan was able to get away with so many lies to the press do you think that fact-checking would be an instrumental part of the job for anyone who calls himself as a journalist but as Ryan holiday writes that's sadly not the case journalists say help a reporter out as a research tool but it isn't it is a tool that manufacturer self-promotion to look like research help a reporter out essentially encourages journalists to look for sources who simply confirm what they were already intending to say writing online is often called a digital sweatshop for good reason ceaseless fight for table scraps might be another phrase for it in 1975 a reporter might have had a few days to work on a piece now they have a few minutes today the online driven news cycle is going a million miles a minute and a million directions the New York Times may still try to validate their sources but it hardly matters because no one else does ooh ways to become wealthy and to become millionaire quickly and one is to make a lot of money and the other is to be as frugal as possible in fact the 32 year olds managed to save a whopping 1.6 million dollar nest egg in fact the 32 year old in fact the 32 year old 32 year old Dan has a track record of making almost exact replicas of Asian comedians websites and replacing their contact information with his own when someone would try to book a comedian he did this - such as Paul Varghese Oh Marsha cat or Esther ku they'd end up on the phone with him instead Esther wrote on Twitter that he tried to sell her website back to her in Oh Marsha cat even has evidence of this on the About section of his site Dan also did a similar thing to Russell Peters here's what Russell had to say about him on the Joe Rogan experience well somebody did that to a Dylan my Russell Peters com they put Russell Peters common with one out and then they completely cut and pasted all my [ __ ] from my website to that one and what did they were they doing anything it was this [ __ ] douche bag guy I don't even say his name because I don't want to give any credit but he thinks he's a comic and he's a [ __ ] douche so he did that [ __ ] with you yeah because then people because you would go to contact info and he had his number there what you know for me like like three times or something and it wasn't like I asked him to open for me he would like he would like sort of stock me and be like hey I see you're gonna be in Indiana this Friday I'm gonna be in town there on Thursday night doing a corporate do you mind if I do a set on the Friday good enough to pay me or anything Wow okay and it worked like three times another wait a minute Russell [ __ ] you always where I'm gonna be the day before that guy sounds crazy creepy stalker you know he's a complete sociopath he was like doing this kind of weird [ __ ] sneaky snake [ __ ] like saying that he's gonna get you - dude guess that so it was he calling you and hey Russell II know we're not friends at all you're not friends at all yeah he was using my name like ya know I cuz cuz he opened for me before you meet so many weird [ __ ] people in this business man and he's not even a guy who wants to go work the road he's like one of these douche bags are just deciding who's do comedy well and he uses jokes off the internet it's [ __ ] horrible hahahahaha the complete [ __ ] cornball but on September 25th 2013 Dan 9 and punched a Daily Beast's reporter named Josh Rogin in the face during a show at the DC Improv after he criticized his act on Twitter the criticism itself was mild all he had to write to set Dan off was Dan 9 and was funny until he dusted off his 2005 Katrina jokes in a grading league bad George W Bush impression dan 19 makes his up team joke about how agents can't distinguish between the letters l and our election erection we get it after being assaulted Josh Rogin informed his followers with a blunt tweet dan 9 and just punched me in the face not a joke this was followed by we are calling the police on Dan 9 in who just punched me twice in front of several witnesses DC police arrested Dan 9 and for assaulting me later Rogen told the full story to the press well Dan Nitin comes over to me and says are you Josh Rogin and I said yes and then he punched me in the jaw and then he pushed me then he walked away in about ten seconds later he came over and he punched me again after he was arrested someone found the police report and exposed his real age regardless it did nothing to stop Dan from harassing comedians online and lying to the press in the following two years Dan's behavior just became worse around this time Marc Maron comedian and host of the hugely popular what-the-fuck podcast received a handful of emails that he decided to read on his show I get a series of emails out of the blue from a guy I don't know nor have I ever heard of and I'm not gonna mention his name for a couple of reasons he was a [ __ ] dick on these emails and I couldn't quite believe his angle here's the first one subject line prick [ __ ] all comics who don't earn any money doing comedy who give advice I'd like to be on your podcast subject how I stopped listening to bitter jaded angry dysfunctional prick [ __ ] off village comics who tell me not to do my style of comedy and now earn over $250,000 a year without ever having a drink drug cigarette or prescription drug and without a single credit in quotes meaning a TV credit without a manager or agent and without being passed at a single club in the city so this guy is basically saying put me on your show I've done nothing that normal comics do to pay their dues and find their own voice and I have somehow figured out a way to make a quarter million dollars a year and having nobody heard of me by 2015 the emails finally stopped first rottmayer and Joe Robinson of the Robin Joe show called Dan and had a heated conversation on the air however this was cut short since Dan was scheduled to appear in person on patrick Melton's podcast called nobody likes onions surprisingly Dan showed up here's a highlight reel of what transpired I mean are you saying you're 33 years old you're saying no I'm 74 I just turned but jokes aside I mean this is a serious you can't say your age what differences what why is that so important yes exactly why is it so important why did you hear so much I'm 74 I'm telling you I look amazing for not 74 if you were 54 you look amazing for 54 why not just own that no you try to pretend you're younger because you think that's marketable okay but then you get busted and then you're a human and you just say you know what you got me so for the people who don't understand this is Joe Robinson comedian and DC failed comedian in DC okay you're you admit that you were huge and you've said many times you're a much better comic than I am correct all right okay so why aren't you doing at least as what as well as I'm doing that okay as you feel like the world is telling you or at least the comedy world is telling you you're hack don't do this don't do that you're doing it wrong and your kind of attitude is I'm an artist you ripped me apart for 10 minutes for that date range amateur and then you try to deny it you liar I don't care if you don't like me you do care if he likes you you're lying that's a lie no no I as you wouldn't spend so much time going you said you called me this you said that like that's very that's what you care I have I have you know I mean I don't need him to like me no I do not it looks that way yeah when you speak a lot here's another video that I randomly stumbled upon while researching it only has 278 views and only 2 likes but holy hell is it ever a gold mine it's a segment from a show called the daily helper which Dan appeared on as a guest the gist of the show is that guests have a problem and a panel of therapists try to fix it in front of a live audience so Dan went on this show with the question how do I get my anger and problems with narcissism and check before they ruin my career well I guess my question is you know okay I get criticized a lot I mean online and you know there's a lot of people saying really hateful stuff online and I guess it's you know how to deal with that one of my questions for you is do you feel like you've actually gotten to a place where you really truly accept yourself and know that you're good inside that you don't have to prove yourself to anybody anymore what do you follow me I don't think so clearly they already did some digging and knew about Dan's past indiscretions and we're prepared to corner him dan brought up that he was bullied in high school which is something he does a lot but they weren't buying it was very bullied in school a lot and very physical abuse and emotional and I mean just everyday just you know just relentless and I still have problems with that at first day of school what message did you take away well about you you know that you know I don't look right or on you know too nerdy or too skinny or glasses or you know it's just you're just a loser do you feel like you're a loser not now no but then yeah every day I mean it was just torment watching this it occurred to me that he's just using his unfortunate past with bullies in order to excuse his nasty behavior but I'm not sure that you don't feel that way because you feel the need to respond to the naysayers when they come after you online you go back to them yeah I know and I shouldn't it's a waste of time I've got a million other things elodie yeah well let's be real about you why did you say that this hurt my feelings you can get pretty downright nasty and ugly and angry I can yeah I can say man have you turned into what you despise oh well the thing is you know are you well are you a bully maybe there's something underneath this anger I see I see a lot of fear and I see a lot of sadness it's probably never seen the light of day this is the piece the piece that she continued to just glean over oh it was just well I there was some insult or old oh well I just kind of pushed him oh you know I just kind of got upset these are the issues then until you get real about these you cannot talk about the way that they are impacting your life and until you wake up and get real about that nothing is going to change for you there here's a quote I found from one of his interviews that I think says a lot about Dan's troubled psyche since I was a nerd and still AM I was a complete social outcast in school people asked me if I was ever in any fights I was in a number of meetings there was one boy in particular who tortured me physically and mentally every day I absolutely dreaded coming to school because of him and others he was really good-looking all the girls were after him and in addition to being really smart and really good-looking he was also very athletic and on the football team at the graduation party to which I was not invited of course he was drunk he drove his motorcycle into a parked car and had to go to the hospital he was never quite the same he was disfigured mentally slow and had a permanent limp he shot himself to death a couple of years later I guess there really is such a thing as Karma I recently went to my 10-year reunion and it was amazing to see how all the football players have gotten fat and bald and I still looked the same it was really quite cathartic the first time I read this it made me shiver he was 51 at the time so him saying that he recently went to his ten-year high school reunion is doubtful regardless such a tragic story true or not shouldn't be told with glee even if you're talking about a bully who tormented you but in Dan 9-inch case he just celebrates I think the biggest takeaway from Dan Nyhan story is the importance of letting go of your asked it's clear to me that Dan chased money success and power are at least the appearance of those things in order to bandage his crippling self-esteem when he was confronted with naysayers he lashed out and tried to prove that he was better than them going through his social media all you see his examples of his lavish lifestyle and his material goods no family no friends nothing but planes cars and celebrities and it all just seems sad even if Dan was the richest most famous comedian on earth I don't think he'll ever be content until he gets over his dick measuring contest with the world in other words if you're watching this Dan work on yourself instead of trying to control how others see you oh well that was a hell of a project if you're eager to see what I'm working on next follow me on Twitter where I regularly post when I'm up - anyways thanks for watching and stay tuned for more weird stories [Music]

Channel: Oki's Weird Stories

Views: 2,761,658

Rating: 4.9132576 out of 5

Keywords: OKIPC, OKI, Weird, Surreal, Strange

Id: CB1NXGAZjb8

Length: 31min 27sec (1887 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 26 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/GraphOrlock]

I saw Nainan walking down Madison Ave like three or four months ago. I recognized him immediately because of his weird mix of racial features, and we shared several seconds of very uncomfortable eye contact, although it seemed like hours.

He was talking into a Bluetooth or something, I still wonder whether there was anyone on the other end.

[u/rational_faultline]

"Most hated man in comedy, homes?!" - Ned "Carlos Mencia" Holness

[u/GroovinWithAPict]

I literally grew up next door to this guy in Chevy Chase MD.

[u/CallieAZ1986]

Wow!!! That’s insane. I’m in AZ, see now I am so fascinated with what a train wreck this guy is that I want to interview people who knew him. So did you go to school with him too?

[u/HawkHooves]

This video just got taken down, TWICE!! By Dan Nianan since it's upload