Mike Wiebe is a musician, actor, and stand-up comedian from Texas. Originally from Denton, he now lives in

Austin Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of Texas, as well as the seat and largest city of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties. Incorporated on December 27, 1839, it is the 11th-most-populous city ...

. Wiebe is the lead singer of several nationally known Austin-based bands including Drakulas, High Tension Wires, and his most longstanding group,

Riverboat Gamblers Riverboat Gamblers is an American punk rock band originally from Denton, Texas, formed in 1997, now residing in Austin, Texas. The band's current line-up comprises vocalist Mike Wiebe, guitarist/voc Fadi El-Assad, guitarist/voc Ian MacDougall, ...

, with whom he has released six albums since 1997. Since 2013, his work has also turned increasingly toward comedy, including two works released by comedy label

Stand Up! Records Stand Up! Records is an American independent comedy record label founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota, by Grammy-winning producer Dan Schlissel. It has been called "the country's most respected indie comedy label." Stand Up! has released more than 20 ...

Career

Music

Wiebe is known for a high-energy performance style which has led to frequent accidental self-injury, which, in turn, has fed back into his iconic status in Texas punk rock. He suffered a collapsed lung after a crowd-surfing accident in 2016. He once accidentally broke a gas main while swinging from the rafters of a club in Denton, Texas, filling the room with flammable gas.

Stand-up comedy

Wiebe began performing stand-up in 2011. In both his music and comedy, Wiebe is given to outlandish theatrics and characters. With comic Avery Moore, Wiebe created a pair of satirical Southern youth group ministers, Dottie and Jefferson-Montclaire McCuewan. Wiebe's character as lead singer of Drakulas, Savage Lord Mic, parodies the postapocalyptic style of 1970s movies like '' The Warriors''. Wiebe performs on the 2013 Altercation Punk Comedy Tour compilation ''Hostile Corporate Takeover'', produced by Stand Up! Records. Since 2019, Wiebe has hosted the podcast Contrarian Court with novelist Wayne Gladstone, in which a different unusual opinion such as "bathrobes are stupid" is argued for by each week's guest, with Gladstone and Wiebe acting as opposing counsel and judge. In 2019, he released the single "I Can't Die," a "theme song" for fellow Austin comic

Ryan Cownie Ryan Patrick Cownie is an American stand-up comedian originally from Lincoln, Nebraska. His album ''I Can't Die'', which includes a theme song by Riverboat Gamblers' Mike Wiebe, was released by Dan Schlissel's Stand Up! Records in 2019. Comedy ...

's Stand Up! Records album ''I Can't Die''. Wiebe co-hosted the 2020 Austin Music Industry Awards.

Acting

Wiebe attended college in

Santa Fe, New Mexico Santa Fe ( ; , Spanish for 'Holy Faith'; tew, Oghá P'o'oge, Tewa for 'white shell water place'; tiw, Hulp'ó'ona, label=Tiwa language, Northern Tiwa; nv, Yootó, Navajo for 'bead + water place') is the capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico. ...

, and worked as an actor in both New Mexico and Texas before concentrating on music. His films include the 2001 low-budget indie superhero parody '' Cornman: American Vegetable Hero'' and 2003's women-in-prison satire '' Prison-A-Go-Go!'', which he also co-wrote with director Barak Epstein. He has also appeared in several short films.

Discography

* "I Can't Die" b/w "Misspent Youth" flexi-disc single (

, 2019) * J.T. Habersaat and the Altercation Punk Comedy Tour (Joe Staats, Mack Lindsay, Billy Milano, and Mike Wiebe), ''Hostile Corporate Takeover'' (

, 2013)

References

External links

Mike Wiebe at Stand Up! Records website
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