In 1998, after doing open mic at Minneapolis' ACME Comedy Company, Chad Daniels was given the opportunity to be the House MC at the Westward Ho in Grand Forks, ND.  Opportunity?  Yes, opportunity.  Performing six shows a week and having to host karaoke after each show in the dead of winter 60 miles from the Canadian border while living in a 6x8 motel room next to a french fry factory?  How could you not agree?  When opportunity shows up at Chad's door it shows up as Alan Funt. 

In 2002, Chad was nominated for Time Magazine's "luckiest man alive".  Only to find out he lost it to David Carusso after booking CSI: Miami.

In 2003, Chad performed as a finalist in Comedy Central's Laugh Riots competition, the Montreal Just for Laughs Festival, which got him enough attention to make his network television debut on the Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn.