Winner of 2013 Bay Area Black Comedy Competition & One of the NYC Kings of Comedy Superstar Rip Micheals is named one of comedy's most influential people on stage! Born and raised in Chicago, Il Rip Micheals uses his take no prisoners style to keep audiences entertained and in tears with laughter as he touches on universal issues such as relationships, world issues and therapeutic value of good life. Rip's keen sense of humor has allowed him to appear on such tv shows as Centric According to Him & Her, Starz Stannd Dup, BET's Comic View, Jamie Fox's Laffapoolza, Showtime @ The Apollo, HBO's PDiddy Bad Boys of Comedy, MTV's Wannabees, and Comedy Central. The loyalty of his fans have contributed to over 62.3K social media followers and led him to hold crown of Prince of Comedy