Mike Sheer made his
stand-up debut at a joke competition in 1985, defeating the other children and winning the first prize of a dollar bill.
After a brief 18 year hiatus, Sheer returned to the circuit. In his home city of Toronto, he performed monologue, sketch and improv comedy and produced events featuring his work. He also began a career as a professional film and voice over actor, making an
unforgettable cameo as the "I'm So High Kid" in cult favorite Harold & Kumar Go To Whitecastle.
In 2005, Sheer headed to Australia, traveling the country as a stand-up comedian. He would spend the next few years back and forth between Toronto and Melbourne, working as a comedian and an actor.
Sheer made his one man show debut at the Adelaide Fringe Festival and Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2008 with Mike Sheer Is Free, to critical and public acclaim. He returned in 2009 as resident MC at the Exford Hotel's After Party late show, and as a guest act on various shows. Sheer has also been a feature act at the Adelaide Fringe Festival's offspring Desert Fringe for two years running.
Now based in London, Sheer is winning over UK audiences with his engaging delivery, provocative wit, and keen sense of the absurd. In 2011, he debuted new solo show Undergod in the Camden Fringe, and produced a sell-out run of stand-up nights at the Manchester Comedy Festival.
Sheer does not shy away from any topic...has the crowd in stitches
~ The Adelaide Advertiser
I was suddenly lost in Sheer’s world, in the tumbling energy of his
avalanche rants… To be a participant in the world of his Godless and deceptively insightful imagination is a pleasure and an excitement
~ On the Fringe
Gags written with elegant efficiency and delivered with a punchy
style... waltzes around the potentially contentious with a
self-effacing charm… Sheer is a talented act with bags of potential, definitely worth a punt despite his relative lack of profile in the UK - an injustice that could well be rectified before too long.
~ Steve Bennett, Chortle.co.uk