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ewish comedian Mike Young
is coming home for the
holidays, and he's bringing
a bunch of his young comic pals with
him.
They'll take the stage Wednesday,
Nov. 22 — Thanksgiving Eve — at
the Royal Oak Music Theatre, the last
stop of a 21-city gig appropriately
named "Mike Young's Young American
Comedy Tour."
Young, who grew up in Southfield
and now lives in California, is the star
of the show and its emcee. He's also
the promoter, along with his brother,
Robert, of Commerce Township.
"The Thanksgiving holiday is a time
when family and friends reunite for
fun, reminiscing and laughs, and that's
exactly what we'll do that night," says
Young from his Beverly Hills, Calif.,
apartment. He'll hang around the
Detroit area to visit with his mother,
Gail Young of West Bloomfield, a
retired Southfield teacher, and attend
the 20th reunion of his Southfield-
Lathrup High School class Nov. 25
at the Dearborn Inn. His late father,
Sam, operated Young Iron and Metal
in Detroit.
Young and his brother developed
the comedy tour concept, which, Mike
says, "brings together some of the
best comedians on the verge of hitting
the big time. I realized I was sitting
on a goldmine of talent, and the tal-
ent happened to be my friends. So, I
figured, 'Why not put us together and
create our own tour?' We're all brought
together by a mutual love and respect
for stand-up."
The other five comedians in
the show are Tony Rock and Steve
Byrne of New York City, Sebastian
Maniscalco of Chicago, and Brett
Ernst and former Detroiter Jessica
Golden of Los Angeles.
Rock has made appearances on sev-
eral television shows and recently fin-
ished shooting a movie called Homie
Spumoni with Whoopi Goldberg.
Byrne filmed a documentary, titled 13
or Bust, in which he breaks the record
of most performances in one night by
a stand-up comedian. Maniscalco has
a deliberately paced style acquired in
training with the renowned Second
City-Chicago. Ernst is taping a show
for MTV this month and soon will be
seen in theaters in Vince Vaughn's
Wild West Comedy Tour — The
Movie. Golden just performed in
town at an ADL benefit comedy night
(see "Funny Ladies," page 47, Nov. 9
IN, for more on Golden).
"We all have different styles, so
there's something for everyone in the
audience," Young points out. "There's
not a weak link in the chain. I prefer
observational humor — about dat-
ing, breaking up, dating again and
breaking up again. I'm almost single.
Actually, I broke up with my girl
friend 11 months ago, but we've never
been closer; I talk to her every day."
The multitalented Young, 38, also
will sing a few songs from his CD,
Work in Progress, a mixture of com-
edy and hip-hop, rock and rap music.
Traveling around the country to about
100 stand-up dates a year gives him
plenty of time to write gags and songs
— "and I see many movies on the
road," he adds. "But I love perform-
ing, because. I always wanted to be an
entertainer. I was the class clown in
school. I used to make jokes and day-
dream. Performing now is a lot tough-
er. You really have to connect with the
audience to make your act go over."
Playing Southfield Little League
baseball and hockey, then joining
the high school varsity teams "had
a strong influence on my life:' Young
reminisces, "as did my bar mitzvah at
Temple Israel.
"To this day, I spend the Jewish
holidays with relatives in California.
And I've observed Passover on the
road, but it's difficult celebrating the
holidays when you travel a lot."
Young took a liking to Arizona after
visiting a cousin there, so he pur-
sued his degree in media arts at the
University of Arizona. Even though
he moved to California 10 years ago,
he formed Red Leaf Productions in
Farmington Hills — named after his
old Southfield street — and began