[2] Daniel Fernandes was born on 2 August 1984 in Bombay, India and was raised in Goa.
[3] He received his MBA in marketing from Symbiosis Institute of Media & Communication, Pune.
[9] In his comedic material and interviews, Fernandes is known to cover Indian social issues including free speech,[1] student suicide,[4] death penalty and marital rape.
[10][2] He has collaborated with several Indian stand-up comedians including Gursimran Khamba,[7] Aditi Mittal,[11] Biswa Kalyan Rath,[12] Sundeep Rao, Radhika Vaz,[13] Abish Mathew and Kanan Gill.
[5][14] In October 2015, Fernandes accompanied Nawazuddin Siddiqui for promotions of the 2015 biographical film, Manjhi: The Mountain Man.