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 Born “Edgar Knopfbaum,” Mike suckled at the teat of a scruffy, but very maternal, german shepard after being abandoned in upstate New York by an unmarried, former housekeeper for the Kennedys. When Mike was roughly 6, he stumbled onto a highway and a caused a multi-vehicle accident. Shortly thereafter, the feral tyke was adopted by the hypochondriac, bi-polar EMT, Edna Dawkins, who found him at the scene. After eleven years of Edna shoving children’s aspiring and cough medicine into him, Mike ran away and joined the circus. He quickly found a home amongst the clowns. He was a quick study and developed into the very popular “Halitosis Harry.” After a wildly over-blown, and often repeated, incident involving a bottle of Southern Comfort and a bull elephant, Mike left the circus, but not clowning. Out on his own, Mike turned to street clowning, and was able to put himself through chiropractic college on the money tossed into his worn black derby with the polka dot sash. Mike discovered Improv after waking up in the back of Jay’s car with an empty bottle of Southern Comfort under his arm and a nasty rash on his stomach. With the exception of a two year stint in California (trying to find himself), Mike has been with NCP ever since.
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