Name	Michael Rowe
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Naionality	American
Date of Birth	March 18, 1962
Place of Birth	Baltimore, Maryland
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As a teen, Mike Rowe was a fixture in the New York stand up comedy scene, performing at such notable clubs as the Improv, Comedy Cellar and The Bottom Line. A highlight of his early days was working with his hero, Andy Kaufman. Mike played the drums for his Elvis impression and refereed his wrestling matches with ladies from the audience. Along the way he wrote one-liners for legendary comics such as Rodney Dangerfield, Rip Taylor and Dennis Miller for SNL's Weekend Update.

His writing career began to blossom, landing him comedy writing jobs at MTV, A&E and Comedy Central. He was soon ready for bigger and better things and moved to Hollywood in the 90's to work on, of all things, a sitcom starring George Clooney. Since then he's worked non-stop on sitcoms such as "Coach" and "Becker," comedy variety series such as "The Martin Short Show" and "The Comedy Central Roasts." He's been nominated for three Emmy's for his work on the animated series "Family Guy" and "Futurama." Mike no longer does stand-up comedy but lives it vicariously by (for the fun of it) writing jokes for his friends Sarah Silverman, Jimmy Kimmel and Jeff Ross.