Mike Trainor

Mike Trainor
Trainor enjoying breakfast
Birth name	Michael Trainor
Born	February 6, 1981 (1981-02-06) (age 30) West Orange, New Jersey, U.S.
Medium	Stand-up
Nationality	American
Years active	2003–present
Genres	Observational comedy, self-deprecation
Subject(s)	Food, sex, stupidity
Influences	Bill Cosby, Denis Leary, Howard Stern, Opie and Anthony, David Letterman, Marc Maron, Rodney Dangerfield
Website	Official website

Mike Trainor (born February 6, 1981) is an American stand-up comedian and writer. He provides commentary on the TruTV series The Smoking Gun Presents.

Personal life

Trainor grew up in West Orange, New Jersey. He began performing stand-up comedy in the summer of 2003 after graduating from Elon University. Trainor is a member of the Kappa Alpha Order. He now lives in Astoria, New York.

Career

Trainor began his career in New York City, performing at his first open-mic comedy show at the bar Nevada Smiths. Trainor also started off his career worked for the radio stations Q104.3 and WCBS 880 and at the television news station NY1. He has been working solely as a comic since the Spring of 2008. Trainor has been featured in Maxim Magazine and for a while was a regular contributor to CollegeHumor.com. From 2004 to 2006 he was the co-host and producer of the show "Four Quotas" on Sirius Satellite Radio alongside his longtime collaborator Steve Hofstetter.

Trainor currently provides humorous commentary on the show "TruTV Presents: World's Dumbest..." and the web series "The 411" on Yahoo. ^[1] In June of 2011 Trainor replaced Ted Jessup as Creative Consultant at Meetinghouse Productions, Inc. (the company behind TruTV Presents: World's Dumbest... after Jessup's departure to Family Guy.

Publishing

Trainor has written a book titled "Fat Things: They Might Not Make You Fat, But You Have Them In Common With Fat People" published by Giant Books in 2009. It was illustrated by Mauricio Restrepo.

Albums

In 2010 Trainor put out an album on the label Next Round Entertainment titled "Giant".

Drinking game

Trainor is the creator of the website "NowYouDrink.com" and the inventor of the drinking game of the same name: Now You Drink.

References

1. ^ Times News Article

External links

• Official Website
• The site of the drinking game Trainor invented: Now You Drink
• The book "Fat Things'" website
• Trainor in Maxim Magazine
• Trainor's album "Giant" on iTunes

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Name	Trainor, Mike
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Date of birth	February 6, 1981
Place of birth	West Orange, New Jersey, U.S.
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