Before the pandemic Mike regularly worked clubs around Ireland, Europe, and the U.S. including City Limits (Cork), The Laugh Factory (Chicago) and The International (Dublin). Mike has performed stand-up comedy twice on Irish national television (RTE) as Part of ‘The Ray Darcy Show’ (Dec 2019) and ‘Laughter in the Eyre’ (Feb 2020), and has featured several times on RTE Radio 1’s Ray Darcy Show. Mike did two separate sold out runs at the Edinburgh fringe festival in 2018, and 2019, and the Perth Fringe Festival in 2019, and 2020.
He has a successful podcast called “The Mike Rice Show” which has been existence since November 2019, and is regularly ranked on the Irish and UK podcast charts.
“Rapid-fire edgey storytelling” – Fringe Feed
“A delightfully hilarious mix of dark and silly humour” – Laugh Factory (Chicago)