I just went on stage and threw everything against the wall, in terms of material, and then just really loved doing it"¦. So I just started performing a lot doing solo stuff, just giving it a shot, and ended up going out on tour with Eugene Mirman and Leo Allen. I finished doing Stella on Comedy Central and also my movie, The Baxter, had just come out, and I was just feeling like I wanted to kind of do something different"¦. Is stand-up a departure for you? You come from an improv and sketch background.
We'll bet you five bucks you won't regret it, you rich bastard. This week, he performs at HBO's US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, so if you have an extra 10 grand lying around, fly out and catch his show.
Now, the man who's worn almost every hat in comedy is trying something entirely new: solo stand-up. More recently, though, the 36-year-old Brooklynite has been making people laugh in more than a few ways: he wrote and starred in the downright hilarious Wet Hot American Summer, was a third of Comedy Central's quirky three-man series, Stella, and wrote, directed and starred in eccentric romantic comedy The Baxter. Like roughly half of the comedians on cable, Michael Showalter got his start on MTV's groundbreaking '90s sketch show, The State.
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