Dan Licata with Maggie Winters

Dan Licata is a NYC-based comedian and high school senior. A fixture of the Brooklyn alternative comedy scene, Dan has written for shows such as Saturday Night Live, Teenage Euthanasia, and Joe Pera Talks With You, on which he also served as a producer and appeared as “Radio DJ.” One of the episodes he wrote titled ‘Joe Pera Reads You the Church Announcements’ was included in several year-end lists. Dan was named a “Comedian You Should and Will Know” by Vulture, and was selected as one of the New Faces of Comedy at the Just For Laughs festival in Montreal, where his set was described as “a hyper storm of unbridled manice hilarity…”. In 2024, he returned to his hometown of Buffalo, NY to record his first comedy special, FOR THE BOYS, in front of an audience entirely comprised of 15-year-old boys, where his set was described as “not appropriate for 15-year-old boys.