Minerva's Roxy Theater Presents an Evening with Comedian Michael Palascak

Last year Michael Palascak appeared on Nateland Presents: The Showcase on YouTube. Michael also released his self-produced special He's Friendly which has garnered over 215, 000 views on YouTube and has multiple tracks streaming on Sirius XM’s comedy channels like Pure Comedy. You can also find him on Paramount + where his debut half hour is streaming on Season 1, Episode 2 of Comedy Central’s The Half Hour and on an episode in the new season of Comics Unleashed. Michael grew up in a small town in Indiana and began doing stand-up in Chicago after his parents moved the family to the suburbs during his formative years. Drew Hunt of The Chicago Reader writes about Michael’s stand-up, “In a lot of ways, he represents the ideal antidote to the sort of unbridled cynicism that pervades much of contemporary stand-up.” The Guardian writes, “In stand up, there is the writing, and then there is the performing. This guy nails both… clean, clever, dark and, most importantly, funny.” As a clean comedian, he has racked up multiple late night credits with appearances on The Tonight Show, The Late Show, The Late Late Show, and Conan. Additionally, he was a Top 5 Finalist on the last season of Last Comic Standing after eliminating Taylor Tomlinson in a head-to-head stand-up competition where one judge claimed, “My first impression of Michael was a great likability. This is a guy that could star in a sitcom.” Michael currently resides in California and is a dad. Every Monday night he records a podcast after his kid goes to sleep. It is called I Just Got My Kid To Sleep.