#daniel simonsen

Though he kind of has the voice and cadence of some kid  trying too hard to do an impression of the Terminator, Daniel Simonsen plays off it and uses it  to his advantage in his offbeat, yet marvelous stand-up comedy.

This Colbert set from last night marks Simonsen making the rounds in late night as he already has a set from Seth Meyers under his belt.

A true, curious treasure from Norway, Daniel Simonsen has honed and imbued his marvelously offbeat sense of humor and rhythm in NYC, even recently getting a set on Colbert. 

Simonsen has popped up in LA every now and again, but later this month, he’ll be doing headlining in a special limited engagement at the Lyric Hyperion that you absolutely should catch.

It will always be amazing to us when someone whose native tongue isn’t English figures out how to handily do stand-up in English. It’s another whole level of fluency in a language that, like so many things in comedy, just can’t be taught. 

Daniel Simonsen who is originally, as mentioned above, from Norway made his very first American TV appearance last night on Late Night with Seth Meyers and, to our point, has managed to toy with nuances of English as well as his play it up with his hilariously bone dry stage persona.