Dan McCoy

For the American ice sledge hockey player, see Dan McCoy (sledge hockey).

Dan McCoy (born June 19, 1978^[1]) is an American comedian and was an Emmy-winning writer^[2] for the news satire program The Daily Show. He is the producer and co-host of the movie podcast The Flop House,^[3] which he co-hosts with comedian/bar owner Stuart Wellington and former Daily Show head writer Elliott Kalan.^[4] He is the creator and co-star (along with Daily Show writer Matt Koff) of the animated webseries 9 AM Meeting,^[5] which won an MTV development deal at the 2010 New York Television Festival.^[6]

McCoy's father, Jerry McCoy, is a professor emeritus at Eureka College.^[7][8] Dan McCoy is a 1996 graduate of Eureka High School in Eureka, Illinois. He is also a member of the Earlham College (Richmond, Indiana) Class of 2000.^[7]