Shayne Michael was born Shayne Michael Whitehead on May 5th 1971. He didn't explore the world of comedy until his high school years in 1989. Shortly after he began writing humor columns for his high school newspaper, he began to dabble in stand-up. He debuted as a comedian at Fun Seekers in 1990 about the same time as the comedy boom of the 1980s came to an end.

While attending ASU he majored in Journalism and continued to both write and do comedy on the side. Towards his last year of college he joined with Louis Anthony Russo's star theater and continued training in stand-up and improv comedy. He would never be a particular favorite of Russo. After he joined the San Francisco Comedy Invasion staring Roger Heater Shayne began touring the state of Arizona, playing small towns like Douglas, Winslow, and Flag Staff.

Upon graduating from ASU in 1997 Shayne joined the Psychiatric Comedy Tour, replacing Keith Hertz and Mark Weitz. Later he would be joined by feature act Chris Hughes. As the tour continued throughout the North West United States, Shayne began to help book the tour, taking a place in both the entertainment end and the business end.

When he realized the headliner's abusive attitude would never end, Shayne left the tour just before it began to play Missouri. From that point on, Roger Heater was the only comic on the Psychiatric Comedy Tour's bill who would actually show up, as Shayne was not replaced and Heater would eventually move to Nevada with a bartender from a show in Wyoming, that he would later marry.

When Shayne returned, he was very much out of favor with the Star Theater, only booked once. Despite a good showing at his return show, he was never asked back again. This happened to almost every performer that started at the Star Theater who went onto their own things.

From that point on he focused on his website, Shayne-michael.com. This had always been a resource for comedians and comedy fans. As it became better, Shayne got tired of competing with Rob Twohy's similar site. The two sites, Shayne-Michael.COM and HeyLady.Com merged creating Laugh Support and an unprecedented open mic database for comics. Most comics were unimpressed and spent little time reading Laugh Support and the majority of their time whining that it was no longer free. This later lead to the very unpopular venue San Genarro, where comics whined we have to bring people but almost never said thanks for being paid.

San Genarro was the first to fail. Ultimately the site was doomed and forgotten as comics forgot HeyLady and flocked to cheap. free knock off sites. But then, after Joe Braza left the Comedy Squared team, Shayne realized the HeyLady.COM/ Shayne-Michael.COM partnership was doomed. After a year of Laugh Support for fans and two years of Laugh Support, there was no alternative but to divide the sites again.

Shortly afterwards Ari David {whom Shayne use to run a show with at the Malibu in} turned him onto MySpace as a promotional tools. Shayne currently uses the blog feature to publish a daily humor column, thus returning to his roots as a comedy writer. There are also mirrors now at Blogger.COM and MSN Blogs.COM. Shayne has recently delved back into comedy after a disreuptable contractor left him living in his own backyard for over two years. The best is yet to come.