Nathan Caton was born in Hammersmith, West London on November 2nd 1984, and grew up in Greenford, a small suburb of West London, where he still resides to this day. As a young child Nathan was a shy, introvert character, but watched a lot of comedy from an early age in the likes of Lenny Henry, and his idol, Eddie Murphy. It was not until Caton entered his teens that he started to portray and reflect the comedy that he had been absorbing the previous years. He started to imitate his favourite TV comedy characters and began getting involved in his school drama productions. Then at 14, he had his first encounter with stand-up comedy when his friends forced him into doing a comedy routine at his church talent show. Caton was nervous, but performed some observational jokes based on the different people at the church and this went down a treat. However, despite his performance he decided not to pursue comedy but to instead focus on his education, excelling in his GCSEs, A-Levels and going on to complete a degree in Architectural Technology. Then one summer during his university years, at the age of 19, Caton finally decided to give stand-up comedy a real go at a professional comedy club. He performed his first gig at a bar in Old Street, London, which to Caton's own admittance did not go too well. But this did not stop Caton and he continued performing in comedy clubs, slowly but surely building up his reputation until by the end of 2005, his first full year of gigging, he had performed at the Edinburgh Festival, finished in second place in the Amused Moose Comedy Search and won the award for Chortle Student Comic of the Year. In 2006 he continued gigging and was rewarded with a nomination for Best Newcomer at the Black Entertainment Comedy Awards, and made his first TV appearances on Richard Hammond's 5 O'Clock Show and Little Miss Joycelyn, amongst other radio work. In 2007 Caton appeared on ITV2's Comedy Cuts, returned to the Edinburgh Festival to perform in a two-man show, and in October 2007 he got his biggest break when his debut comedy pilot The Nathan Caton Show aired on Paramount Television. Caton wrote and starred in the 30-minute show where he guised as different comedy characters and this earned him a Hotshot award from Broadcast magazine. Caton just returned from performing his first solo show at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival and is now working on various comedy projects.

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