Michael Kaplan

Myq Kaplan (born October 7, 1978) is an American stand-up comedian. Born Michael Kaplan in Livingston, New Jersey, he works out of Boston and New York City. He received his bachelor's degree from Brandeis University in 2000 and a master's degree in linguistics from Boston University, where in 2005 he won the "funniest student" contest while a student.

Kaplan tours North America and has performed over 1,000 shows at comedy clubs. He was a semifinalist in the 2006 Boston Comedy Festival and the 2006 Seattle Comedy Competition, one of nine finalists in Comedy Central's 2007 Open Mic Fight competition, and was named Local Comedian of the Year in a 2008 reader poll by The Phoenix. He took part in Montreal's Just for Laughs festival in 2009, performed for the first time on The Tonight Show in December 2009, and was a contestant on Last Comic Standing in 2010, placing fifth. He was also a contestant on the tenth season of America's Got Talent, making it to the Quarterfinals.

His Comedy Central Presents special aired on April 30, 2010, and his comedy album Vegan Mind Meld came out the same year, followed by further albums including Meat Robot (2013) and A.K.A. (2020). In August 2014 his one-hour special Small, Dork, and Handsome appeared on Netflix. Kaplan hosts his own podcast Hang Out with Me and is a frequent guest on Comedy Bang! Bang! and You Made It Weird With Pete Holmes. A musician, primarily a guitarist and vocalist, he is vegan and polyamorous.