Shayne Louis Smith (born December 15, 1986) is an American
stand-up comedian
Stand-up comedy is a comedy, comedic performance to a live audience in which the performer addresses the audience directly from the stage. The performer is known as a comedian, a comic or a stand-up.
Stand-up comedy consists of One-line joke ...
, podcaster and vocalist for the band Painted Devils.
Life and career
Smith grew up in
Fillmore, Utah
Fillmore is a city and the county seat of Millard County, Utah, United States. The population was 2,435 at the 2010 United States Census. It is named for the thirteenth President of the United States, US President Millard Fillmore, who was in of ...
.
He attended
Canyon View High School Canyon View High School may refer to:
* Canyon View High School (Arizona) in Waddell, Arizona
* Canyon View High School (Ontario, California)
* Canyon View High School (Cedar City, Utah)
* Canyon View Preparatory Academy
Canyon View Preparatory ...
.
Shayne started performing standup comedy at
Wiseguys Comedy Club
Wise guy or Wiseguy may refer to:
Film and TV
* Wiseguy (TV series), ''Wiseguy'' (TV series), a US television series
* ''The Wise Guy'', a 1926 silent crime drama film directed by Frank Lloyd
* ''The Wise Guys'', a 1965 French comedy film directed ...
in 2014.
City Weekly
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named him the Best Alternative Comedian of 2016.
His first special ''Prison for Wizards'' was released by
VidAngel
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's Dry Bar Comedy in March 2018.
Subsequent specials "Alligator Boys and "The Animal" were both released on Youtube in 2021. Smith has also contributed an article on rollerblading to One Blade Magazine.
In 2023, Smith began to convert to Roman Catholicism.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfa5weLJWAA]
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American stand-up comedians
Bisexual comedians
1986 births
Living people
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