Dan is a comedian from New York who is half Indian and half Japanese. He has been the opening act for the most famous Indian comedian in north America: Russel Peters. He has performed for the Democratic National Convention in 2008, for a United Nations event for Mrs. Blair and Yoko Ono, for Hillary Clinton and Howard Dean, for an Intel corporate event with the C-level executives in attendance, for an event with CNN's Sanjay Gupta and at a host of other venues. He has filled auditoriums of 1800+ people by himself. He has appeared in a film with Richard Gere and has had various television appearances. He has done comedy tours around the world.