Michael Colyar

Michael Colyar (Michael K. Colyar) – American actor, comedian, and author, born 9 February 1957 in Chicago, Illinois. Raised in the Robert Taylor Homes public housing project on Chicago's South Side. He gained national attention in 1990 by winning the $100,000 Grand Prize Comedy championship on Star Search (donating $50,000 to homeless charities in Los Angeles), then spent nine years performing on the Venice Beach boardwalk, where he was nicknamed "The King of Venice Beach" and later had his shoe prints and handprints embedded in cement by the city of Venice. His most notable film roles incl…