Dan Donohue @ Here-After

Make him fight the Space Needle šŸ¤œ šŸ’„ šŸ›ø

šŸ“ø: Courtesy Dan Donohue

šŸ“… Friday, December 8th
ā° Show 1: Doors 6 pm | Show 7 pm
ā° Show 2: Doors 8 pm | Show 9 pm

šŸ“… Saturday, December 9th
ā° Doors 6 pm | Show 7 pm

šŸ“ Here-After: 2505 1st Ave, Seattle
šŸŽŸ $20

Hot mustachioed and mulleted Dan Donohue, the son of a Cape Cod bricklayer mom and yoga instructor dad, has promised to fight the Space Needle if he sells out his two shows at the Here-After. (Update: He added a third!)

In a world where white male comedians are still cracking jokes about domestic violence and special needs kids, Donohue counters toxic masculinity by being open about his learning disabilities and relying more on observational humor and casual crowd work. On his ā€œself-improvement podcastā€ Danswers with fellow stand-up Terence Pennington, heā€™s currently doing a multi-episode deep-dive on Steve Harveyā€™s 2009 ā€œAct Like a Lady, Think Like a Man.ā€ The critique allows him to be vulnerable about his own dating history (hard to believe heā€™s ever felt unlovable šŸ˜„) and poke at now-antiquated notions about relationships. Catch him on Instagram (@notbaddan) washing dishes and sharing his takes on dating, bad tattoos, and ways to be a better/less entitled human.

Openers include localsĀ Ricci ArmaniĀ (who will be headlining at Here-After starting December 10),Ā Alyssa YeomanĀ from Tacoma, andĀ Bo Johnson (giving Donohue a run for his money with both parents being massage therapists) from Seattle.Ā 

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Katie Kurtz

Katie Kurtz grew up in Seattle and has been writing about West Coast art and culture since the early ’90s. When she’s not lamenting the loss of her teenaged haunts, she can be found playing pinball, losing cell phone service in the woods, or surfing microfiche as one of Seattle Public Library’s 2023 writers-in-residence.