I was always the class clown all through school until I got to college and decided to take my antics and turn them into something positive. I got into some improv classes and really figured out that comedy was what I was good at and wanted to do. After putting on three improv shows, similar to Whose Line is it Anyway?, my professor pulled me aside and suggested if I were serious, to think about moving to Chicago to pursue my comedy.
Not long after I moved to Chicago and actually got a stand up open mic night gig before I had a job. That's where I met Lyndel Pleasant who literally snuck me into the club for six months because I was underage. It was there that I met such great comedians like Lyndel, Vince Carone, Jim Flannigan, Kelly Williams, Jessica Richeson and Jason McNeil. We formed a strong bond and friendship and to this day still perform together.
I've been doing comedy for six years now in New York, Chicago and North Caroline. Although I don't have a particular "style", I'm referred to by friends and fellow comedians as "fearless." I get on stage and say what I feel and think and even what others feel and think but can't or won't say. There is no subject I won't talk about, no joke I won't make just to get a laugh out of someone. On or off stage I don't care what people say or think about me and that gives me the freedom to do what I do, and well. When other people or comedians "won't go there because it might cross the line," I go there and push the line further back.
Like other comedians, I am two people. The "on stage" Mike and the "off stage" Michael. I'm a comedian but I'm also a person. I'm not a comedian 24 hours a day so don't be offended if you ask me while I'm out to tell you a joke and I tell you to go fuck yourself. I'm not a little monkey that performs tricks on command. If you want to see me tell a joke, come to one of my shows. I can be the nicest person you've met but I can be the most sarcastic and mean sometimes. I'm a rubix cube of emotions, thoughts and experience and it'd take forever to figure me out, however, on stage...
