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| Born | Nathaniel James Macintosh September 9, 1985 |
| Spouse | Liz Heather (m. 2025) |
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| Website | nathanmacintosh |
Nathan Macintosh [1] is a Canadian stand-up comedian from Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is most noted for his 2024 comedy album Down with Tech [2], which was a Juno Award nominee for Comedy Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2025. [3]
Career
[edit]Macintosh won the Canadian Comedy Award for Best Stand-Up Newcomer at the 10th Canadian Comedy Awards in 2009, and played a fictionalized version of himself in the 2022 TV1 comedy series Trapped. [4] He was named one of Variety (magazine)'s 10 Comics To Watch in 2024. [5] Macintosh is the host of the podcast Positive Anger [6].
The New York Times named his first special [7] Money Never Wakes [8] The Best YouTube Special Of 2023. [9] His second comedy special Down With Tech was recommended by The New York Times [10] and Vulture named it one of the Top 5 Specials To Check Out In 2024. [11] He has performed standup on Conan (talk show) [12] and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert [13] in 2017, as well as The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in 2019 [14], 2023 [15] and 2024. [16]
Personal life
[edit]Macintosh married Canadian writer Liz Heather [17] in Toronto, Ontario in August 2025.
References
[edit]- ↑ "Official Nathan Macintosh"
- ↑ Nathan Macintosh, "Down With Tech" Available on YouTube
- ↑ Holly Gordon, "Here are all the 2025 Juno nominees". CBC Music, February 11, 2025
- ↑ Chelsey Gould, "Nathan Macintosh, Jonathan Torrens feature Truro in second season of Trapped". PNI Atlantic News, November 18, 2022
- ↑ Courtney Howard, Tomris Laffly, Stuart Miller, Paul Plunkett, Jenelle Riley "Variety's 10 Comics To Watch in 2024" Variety, July 16, 2024
- ↑ Nathan Macintosh, "Positive Anger" Apple Podcasts
- ↑ Nathan Macintosh, "Money Never Wakes Available on YouTube
- ↑ Jason Zinoman, "Three New Stand-Up Specials, Three Very Different Approaches" The New York Times, February 18, 2023
- ↑ Jason Zinoman, "Best Comedy of 2023"The New York Times, December 10, 2023
- ↑ Jason Zinoman,"5 Knockout Stand-Up Specials for the Long Weekend" The New York Times, May 25, 2024
- ↑ Jesse David Fox, "5 Brand-new Stand-up Comedy Specials Streaming Now"Vulture, December 30, 2024
- ↑ Conan, "Conan | Nathan Macintosh | Stand Up" January 31, 2017
- ↑ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, "Nathan Macintosh Does Not Want To Talk To Robots" October 6, 2017
- ↑ The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, "Losing Friends to Babies and Walking a Chihuahua" February 7, 2019
- ↑ The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, "Nathan Macintosh Stand-Up" February 17, 2023
- ↑ The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, "Tech Nerds Run the World" April 12, 2024
- ↑ Liz Heather, "Things I Would Email You If We Were Friends" August 13, 2025
External links
[edit]- 21st-century Canadian comedians
- 21st-century Canadian male actors
- 21st-century Canadian male writers
- Canadian male comedians
- Canadian stand-up comedians
- Canadian television writers
- Canadian comedy writers
- Comedians from Nova Scotia
- Male actors from Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Writers from Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Living people
- Canadian Comedy Award winners