Dan Patterson (born March 1960)[1] is a British television producer and writer, best known as co-creator, alongside Mark Leveson, and producer of both the British and American incarnations of the comedy improvisation show Whose Line Is It Anyway?
and the British satirical comedy panel show Mock the Week.
In 2005, Patterson and Leveson created Mock the Week, which ran on the BBC until 2022, with 245 episodes in total.
Patterson has been a producer on every episode of Whose Line (both UK and US) and Mock the Week.
[2] In October 2013, the play The Duck House, a farcical political satire which he wrote alongside Have I Got News for You writer Colin Swash,[3] embarked on a five-week tour[4] before transferring to the Vaudeville Theatre in London's West End through Spring 2014.