David Nihill: Taking Tangents Tour

David Nihill brings his new show, Taking Tangents, to Shelton Auditorium on Saturday, January 30, 2027. It's a stand-up set that draws on his years of travel, and if you've never seen him before, the background explains a lot of where the material comes from.

Nihill was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, and has since lived and worked in twelve countries and visited more than eighty. That's a lot of ground to cover, and it's exactly what he pulls from for Taking Tangents. He's a comedian and an author, and the two sides of his work tend to feed into each other.

He's been building toward this for a while. He won the annual San Francisco Comedy Competition, a contest that produced previous finalists like Robin Williams, Ellen DeGeneres, and Dana Carvey, and he was runner-up in the Moth's largest US Grandslam storytelling competition. He's also a bestselling writer. On the comedy side, he recorded his debut special Documented for Dry Bar Comedy in 2019, followed by Cultural Appreciation in 2022 and the award-winning Shelf Help in 2025. His work has appeared on TED.com, Sirius XM, Just For Laughs, the Netflix Is a Joke Festival, RTE's Late Late Show, The Irish Independent, Inc, NPR, and the LA Times. His videos have gathered more than a billion views, and he has a social following of over two million people.

Taking Tangents is the next chapter in that sequence. It's a new show, and it's the one he's touring right now. The performance is at Shelton Auditorium, part of the Butler Arts Center at 4620 Sunset Ave. in Broad Ripple, and it starts at 7:30 PM.