Comedian Michael Jr. performs his stand-up routine. | Vimeo For much of his adult life, comedian Michael Jr. has made people laugh, uplifting audiences from some of the worldâs biggest stages. But in between jokes, the outspoken Christian and father-of-five inserts practical wisdom â a practice that, he discovered, impacted audiences in sometimes unexpected ways. âOne time, after a comedy show in Sacramento, California, security approached me and said, âThereâs this guy that really wants to talk to you,ââ he recalled. âI look up, and thereâs this white dude, wearing a wife-beater, really tatted up, and he looked really high because his eyes were all red. But I realized heâd been crying.â