"Dad Joke" meme and comedian.

knowyourmeme.com” has the first know use of the term “Dad Joke” online at the end of 2003. Which is interesting, apparently it really is a newish term. (But they call “spics’n’specs” a British TV show, so they’re obviously failable).

The first I heard of the idea was from a comedian who had a successful routine introducing the term. It was new enough then that he had to explain the idea (“Hello Hungry, I’m Dad” – “Is there a place dad’s go to learn the jokes?”), and based on that routine he was then identifiable as “the Dad Joke comidian” He would have been doing the festivals and the TV shows.

Who was that comic?