Mike Goudeau became a street performer when he was 14. An intelligent boy gifted with quick reflexes, Mike made the move to the sidewalk soon after he learned that his audiences were actually just betting on whether he would get creamed by a car, a bus, or a bike messenger.

Education has always been important to Mike. In 1979, he graduated magna cum laude from one of the world's most prestigious institutes of higher learning: Ringling Brothers', Barnum, and Bailey Clown College.

He was voted "Class Clown" and toured with the circus from 1979 to 1981. A few years later he returned to his alma mater as a Gag writing instructor. With such impressive academic credits, Mike's talents were in demand. He worked as an avocado, a bunny, a gorilla riding a moped, and the romantic lead in a Barry Manilow video that leapt to the number one spot in West Germany. These experiences helped to mold Michael into the man he is today, a man his wife describes as "my greatest challenge."

Mike has performed in the "Follies Bergere" plus a dozen other revues in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, New York, Miami, and for some reason Valley Forge, PA.

Among his proudest accomplishments are performing his act in French in Paris, Japanese in Tokyo, Spanish in Madrid and Santiago, and Hungarian in Budapest, despite the crushing handicap that he barely even speaks English. Mike even won some sort of award in Budapest. "I stood up and accepted the award when my name was called," he says. "To this day, I still don't know what it was for."

When he's not on the road with Comedy Industries, Mike performs five nights a week in the "Lance Burton, Master Magician" show at the Monte Carlo Hotel in Las Vegas, writes for Penn & Teller, and practices spit-takes with his baby son Joe.