Daniel John Kitson (born 2 July 1977) is an English comedian, actor, performer and writer.

Daniel John Kitson was born in Denby Dale on 2 July 1977,[1][2] the son of a primary school headteacher mother and a lecturer father.

He played work-in progress gigs in January and early February before presenting the show at 28 dates during May & June.

[9] In July 2008 he began previews of his Edinburgh Festival show, 66A Church Road: A Lament, Made Of Memories And Kept In Suitcases.

[10] In 2009 Kitson performed two new shows: We Are Gathered Here & The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church, the latter of which was toured in late 2010 and the first half of 2011.

Prior to this in early 2010, Kitson also did a short UK tour of 66a Church Road – A Lament Made of Memories and Kept in Suitcases that he initially performed in Edinburgh in 2008 (and then took to Australia.)

[12] in 2017, Kitson performed his first stand-up comedy in over four years at The Roundhouse in July 2017 before taking it to The Royal Exchange, Manchester.

The premise of this show was to read aloud a catalogued list of 20,000 objects[14] in his home, but in true Kitson style an extra narrative and much humour is delivered along the way.

to a series of theatres and comedy clubs, performing without a live audience, but streamed to online ticket-holders that were limited to the capacity of the venues.

[5] Kitson voices an "alley rat" in the pilot episode of the Kristen Schaal and Kurt Braunohler comedy Penelope: Princess of Pets which was aired in 2010 by Channel 4.

The show, broadcast live 1 am to 4 am on Monday nights / Tuesday mornings from London's community arts radio station Resonance FM, mainly involves music from his own collection (some played directly from his iPod), and occasional clips of comedy.

In between tracks he talks about the music, tells anecdotes, and responds to the SMS text messages and e-mails that are sent in throughout the show.

In 2018 it was announced that for three weeks in May, Kitson would host an early morning weekday show on Resonance FM called "A Reason To Wake Up".

Kitson had originally begun doing radio shows in Australia during the 2005 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, on Melbourne-based community station 3RRR.

Co-hosts have included Courteney Hocking, David O'Doherty, Andrew McClelland and Steve Hall of We Are Klang.