Michael Lehrer, a sketch, improv and stand-up performer whose credit included The Second Metropolis, has died of problems of ALS. He was 44.
Lehrer stored performing even after his 2017 analysis, showing in Austin, Texas golf equipment in a wheelchair. He talked overtly about his struggles with the illness on stage and on the comedy podcast Kill Tony.
Lehrer was chosen as a New Face of Comedy for the 2014 Only for Laughs Competition. He helped create 4 unique sketch revues for The Second Metropolis, together with the Jeff Award winner for Finest Revue, Sky’s The Restrict (Climate Allowing). He additionally logged time in The Second Metropolis Touring Firm, Second Metropolis’s Las Vegas outpost, and as a part of Second Metropolis at sea on Norwegian Cruise Line.
Throughout his time at Second Metropolis Las Vegas, Michael would recurrently attend Las Vegas Metropolis Council conferences in open discussion board classes to supply his “opinions” on a wide range of matters.
Famously, on his final night time at The Second Metropolis e.t.c., he employed a tattoo artist to provide him a tattoo of a Brown Line El practice on his again throughout his remaining improv set.
Along with Second Metropolis, he was a cohost for BTNs Large Ten Tailgate and appeared on the syndicated improvised comedy Sports activities Motion Crew. Lehrer additionally contributed to The Chicago Tribune, the Second Metropolis Community, and appeared with iO Chicago, Chicago Underground Comedy, and the Brooklyn Brewery comedy tour.
Survivors embrace his son, Colin, and girlfriend Colette. No memorial plans have been revealed.
