Danny has been performing stand-up comedy for over fifteen years, headlining regularly at top comedy clubs and festivals to worldwide audiences.

As the resident host of The Comedy Crunch, The Laughter Lounge, and the owner of Drumhill Event Management in Dublin- one of Ireland’s most successful comedy event companies - Danny’s comedically experienced, high energy, and anecdotal style draws in an audience and brings on the big laughs with ease! 

Following in the footsteps of Simon Pegg, Dylan Moran and Dara Ó Briain – Danny was handpicked in 2016 to perform as part of the iconic ‘Best of The Edinburgh Fest’ Show across Australia touring Perth World Fringe, Adelaide Fringe Festival and The Melbourne International Comedy Festival. He was asked back in 2018 and again 2019, making him the only Irish comic to do the tour a record three times.

Danny featured in The 2017 Comedy Central Show “Brexit at Tiffany’s” and is a regular on Irish Television and Radio. He has toured nationally with Ireland’s biggest radio stars Dermot & Dave on their sell-out live show as well as regularly opening for acts such as The USA’s David Cross and Scotland’s Iain Stirling in Ireland’s premier comedy venue, Vicar Street. In 2018 he opened for American comedian Bill Burr in front of over 8,000 people in Dublin. 

Danny is a festival favourite and has been asked to both perform and MC shows at various Irish festivals as well as regular international performances all over the world! Previous festivals include:

During the pandemic of 2020, Danny O' Brien launched a hugely successful event company 'Garden Gigs Ireland' which saw him perform outdoor socially distanced shows to local Dublin communities and frontline workers which featured on every major Irish and UK news and media outlet. During the lockdown, he helped to raise over €100,000 through online shows and fundraisers for The Irish Cancer Society, Pieta House, and Wexford Women's Refuge to name but a few. Danny also filmed and produced a live “Lockdown Comedy Special” which received huge viewing figures from its Saturday night TV airing, as well as tens of thousands of views online, it was the first of its kind on Irish television and was praised for its innovation during the lockdown! Danny has also facilitated 'Comedy & Confidence Building' workshops for secondary schools all over Ireland for over 5 years and will produce several festivals all over Ireland and the UK this summer.

In early 2021 Danny performed a solo comedy tour of Central America with several sell-out shows all over Guatemala donating all of his shows ticket proceeds to the local comedians & musicians who opened the shows as well as local charities that supported communities that had been hit the hardest by the pandemic such as The Integral Heart Foundation, Casa del Alfarero Association and to the local Mayan communities in Tzununa at Lake Atitlan.

In March of 2021, O' Brien then teamed up with local Costa Rican comedian and musician Kurt Dyer to do the first-ever Irish/Tico doubleheader show on Saint Patricks in San José, the show was a complete advance sell-out and the first big live performance in the entire country is over a year. The duo also filmed a viral comedy sketch 'Salmón' which received over 50,000 views on its first day!

These live shows have now set a pioneering platform for an Irish & International Comedy and Music Festival tour launching in Central America in 2022 that will be hosted and curated by Danny O' Brien.