Dan Newbower began his comedic career in Junior High as a member of a traveling improv troupe called The Mad Hatters. He thought it was cool at the time, but in retrospect it was totally lame. After graduating with honors from Duke University, where he received both a degree in economics and a national Telly Award for his humorous college television show, Dan moved back to his hometown of Boston to try his hand at stand up comedy.

Success in stand up came quickly. After only six months of performing, Dan was chosen to be one of ten Boston semifinalists in the nationwide Comedy Central Laugh Riots stand up competition. The next year Dan was once again chosen to be a Boston semifinalist. This time around, he won! Two weeks later, Dan was flown to LA to represent his city at the El Rey Theater as one of only 10 national finalists out of a pool of thousands.

Following the above success, Dan became the hot young comic on the Boston scene. Soon he was opening for such luminaries as David Cross at the fabled Comedy Connection, and hosting Friday nights at the legendary Comedy Studio in Cambridge. Dan also regularly performed sketch and made short films with the groups WAKKA and Piston Honda. Both groups had stupid names.

In addition, Dan was profiled in just about every Boston magazine and newspaper in existence, including: The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, The Boston Phoenix, The Improper Bostonian, Boston Magazine, Stuff@Night Magazine, The Weekly Dig, and on and on and on. He was also featured on Boston radio and TV, on programs with names like Chowda. Yes, Chowda. Dan was on that particular one twice.

Dan was also selected to participate in the Boston International Comedy Festival, and the Cambridge Fringe Festival, and was even discovered as a fashion model and had many photos taken of him wearing leather pants and eyeliner.

Soon Dan had had enough of Boston and moved to New York City. He immediately began performing at comedy clubs such as Gotham, and at premier alternative venues such as Eating It at Luna Lounge, Pianos, and the UCB Theater. Dan also used his new contacts in New York to create and produce the Regattabar Summer Comedy Series. This yearly comedy series took place at the world-renowned, 300-seat, Regattabar Jazz Club and had an annual budget in the tens of thousands of dollars. The series lineup featured New York comics such as Todd Barry, Demetri Martin, and Leo Allen, as well as Boston ex-patriots such as Gary Gulman, Mike Birbiglia and Christian Finnegan. After two years of tons of press and sold out shows, everyone involved was sick of doing it.

Since moving to New York, Dan has appeared on VH1's Best Week Ever, NY1's The Call, Howard Stern TV, and he just taped an episode of The Whitest Kids U Know on Fuse Network... so watch out for that. In addition, Dan has written two screenplays, one of which was optioned for production, and has several more screenplays in the works. Dan can be seen performing stand up regularly at the super-hip, alt-comedy club Rififi on the Lower East Side and in numerous other venues around town and around this great nation.