Dan Willis (comedian)
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Dan Willis (Comedian) in a publicity shot for the comedy show "Control Alt Delete: The Funny Side Of Computers".
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11 March 1973 York, Yorkshire, U.K. |
| Medium | Comedian, Actor, Computer Programmer, Presenter |
| Genres | Comedy, Information Technology |
| Website | DanWillis.net |
Dan Willis (born 11 March 1973) is an Australia-based English comedian, originally studying and then working in information technology for over 12 years before moving into live stand-up comedy after the IT crash of 2002. Since then, Willis has performed over 2,000 times at comedy venues and festivals throughout the world, as well as live stand-up. He also performs 2 specialist computer comedy shows "Control-Alt-Delete" and "PC Mac and me".
Willis was born Dan Hull in York, Yorkshire in 1973, he took the stage name "Dan Willis" as a homage to the show Diff'rent Strokes. At the age of 3 his parents divorced and he moved to Newcastle Upon Tyne where he attended St Catherines First School, Gosforth Central Middle and Gosforth High School. Willis then studied at Liverpool University where he gained degrees in Computer Sciences and American History.
Gaining an initial love of computers after being bought a ZX Spectrum 48k at the age of 9, Willis chose to study Computer Sciences as part of his degree at Liverpool University. After graduating he first worked as a computer support technician at the head office of Meyer cookware in Liverpool. He then switched to computer programming for FI group, Eagle Star Insurance, Unisys, Coutts & Co and Alchemy Data Migration.
Initially starting as a Visual Basic programmer, he quickly retrained in COBOL, PL1, Easytrieve and DB2 in order to work on Y2K projects. After Y2K he retrained in ETL tools ACTA, Informatica and Ab Initio, working for 2 years at Alchemy Data Migration prior to the IT crash of 2002.
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