Michael started in comedy in the late 90s, eventually winning the Becks Beer award for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2001. After a nearly 20 year hiatus he returned to comedy in a totally different country and having learned no life lessons at all.
Since then he has twice been nominated for ‘Best MC’, in the Welly Awards; won his own Welly in 2020 for being an all-round nice person; and performs up and down Aotearoa.