Originally from Wisconsin Shane Mauss caught his first break when he was awarded ‘Best Stand-Up” at The HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in 2007.  This led to his TV debut and first of five appearances on Conan.  Since that time he’s been on Jimmy Kimmel Showtime has had a Comedy Central Presents a Netflix special ‘Mating Season’ and most recently released an album inspired by breaking both of his feet in a hiking mishap called ‘My Big Break’ which spent time at #1 on the comedy iTunes charts.   Shane is a regular guest on popular podcasts such as You Made It Weird Bertcast WTF Duncan Trussell’s Family Hour TOFOP Crabfeast Never Not Funny and last year he started traveling around the country interviewing scientists about the meanings of life for his own podcast “Here We Are” which has a 5 star rating on iTunes.