Don Jamieson
Stand-up comedian

Don Jamieson

Who Don Jamieson is

Don Jamieson is an American stand-up comedian who bills himself as a rock and roll comedian, best known as a co-host of VH1 Classic's That Metal Show with Eddie Trunk and Jim Florentine. He records his stand-up for Metal Blade Records: Communication Breakdown (2017) was recorded at the Funny Stop in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, and Denim & Laughter (2020), a parody of Saxon's Denim and Leather, before a small crowd in a Los Angeles speakeasy. He is an Emmy Award winner for his work on HBO's Inside the NFL. A track from Denim & Laughter was among the most-played on SiriusXM's Raw Comedy channel in November 2024, and in March 2026 he was one of the channel's 100 most-played acts.

At a glance

Albums
Live & Hilarious, Hell Bent for Laughter, Communication Breakdown and 7 more
Podcasts
That Jamieson Show
On screen
That Metal Show, Inside the NFL, Beer Money and 1 more
Official site
donjamieson.com ↗

On stage

No dated show on D.O.C.'s Comedy Calendar right now — their own site has their dates: donjamieson.com ↗.

Lineups belong to the rooms and the comedians, and can change; each listing has the last word. Their nights on the Comedy Calendar →

Specials, shows and podcasts

Albums

On screen

Podcasts

Comedians like Don Jamieson

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Their stand-up

That Metal Show ran on VH1 Classic for 14 seasons, from 15 November 2008 to 9 May 2015, and Rolling Stone named it one of the 50 best reasons to watch TV. Don Jamieson's first three albums all reached the iTunes top 20 and the Billboard comedy top ten, and his album covers parody classic records by Thin Lizzy, Judas Priest, Led Zeppelin and Saxon.

He has played rock festivals including Rock on the Range, the Monsters of Rock Cruise and Metallica's Orion Music + More, where Lars Ulrich introduced him, has written jokes for Lisa Lampanelli and spent many years as Andrew Dice Clay's opening act, and with Jim Florentine made the Terrorizing Telemarketers prank call recordings heard on The Howard Stern Show.

Career timeline

  1. 2010Terrorizing Telemarketers Vol. 5 (with Jim Florentine, Favored Nations, 2010) Album
  2. 2015Terrorizing Telemarketers, Vol. 6 (with Jim Florentine, Metal Blade Records, 2015) Album
  3. 2017Communication Breakdown (Metal Blade Records, 2017) Album
  4. 2019That Jamieson Show (host, Compound Media, from 2019) Podcast or book
  5. 2020Denim & Laughter (Metal Blade Records, 2020) Album
  6. 2022Terrorizing Telemarketers 7 (with Jim Florentine, Johnny Blade, 2022) Album
  7. 2024No Sleep 'Til McSorley's (2024) Album
  8. 2026Terrorizing Telemarketers, Vol. 8 (with Jim Florentine, BSeenMedia, 2026) Album
  9. 2026Comedy Is Killing Me (2026) Album

Questions and answers

Where is Don Jamieson performing next?

No date is on D.O.C.'s Comedy Calendar right now; their own site has their dates: donjamieson.com ↗.

What podcast do they host?

That Jamieson Show.

What TV shows and films are they in?

That Metal Show, Inside the NFL, Beer Money and Meet the Creeps.

Who are some comedians like them?

Jim Florentine (also in That Metal Show).

The full SUCDb record

The full record — the career in order, the specials and credits, and the sources for each — is on SUCDb, with a button to add them to your D.O.C., your twelve.

Their SUCDb record →Their own site ↗

Sources

Updated 9 October 2026 · the record checked 8 October 2026