Background
Dolan was born in Camden, London.
Dolan was born in Camden, London.
He attended the University of Edinburgh and performed in the acclaimed improvisational comedy troupe The Improverts.
Stand-up comedy Dolan started as a stand-up comedian in 2000, reaching the final of Channel 4"s So You Think You"re Funny competition in his first year of performing. He currently has a Saturday night residency at Soho’s Amused Moose Comedy Club. At the Edinburgh Festival Mark in 2006, Dolan performed his new one-man show I’m Here To Help!, a format in which the audience submit their real problems at the start of the show, to be solved by Dolan, the rest of the audience, and his mother on the phone.
I’m Here To Help! premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2007, at The Gilded Balloon.
Radio With a background in radio, Dolan has stayed close to the medium in which his career began. Alongside the aforementioned C4 radio show, Dolan is a regular presenter on LBC radio and British Broadcasting Corporation London, as well as being a panellist on a wide variety of Radio 4 comedy shows including The Personality Test and the Jon Ronson Show.
Dolan has lent his voice to a range of television and radio programmes, including commercials. Dolan is currently developing I"m Here To Help! for television, and recently finished the third series of Balls of Steel.
Dolan now presents a breakfast show on Fubar Radio, an uncensored radio station based in London.
On 16 February 2013, Dolan took part in the fifth series of Let"s Dance for Comic Relief as member of "Destiny"s Dad" alongside fellow stand up comedians Hal Cruttenden and Shaun Keaveny.