User talk:Nicky Shane

Nicky Shane aka Mitchell Pieracci - Professional Artist, Musician, Stand-up Comedian Born in San Jose, California, USA September 8, 2005 Established Guinness World Record "Fastest Harmonica Player" First wind instrument speed record.

Growing up in East San Jose, California, iconoclast Nicky Shane aka Mitchell Pieracci was an anomaly of creativity, angst and trepidation. If the local gangs were not enough to deal with, his own family planted a fallacy garden with many weeds to exhume. Not wanting to stir the paradox, Nicky decided to guide his own ship at a very young age.

Dirt poor, with a single parent and five brothers and sisters, Nicky searched for any road that would allow him his freedom to create. Deciding on art and athletics, his insatiable curiosity eventually caused him to experiment with drugs and seek out alternative peer groups. The verisimilitude he discovered would become the foundation of his surreal creativity and comedy perspective.

While playing football in college, Nicky worked odd jobs along with selling his art and playing music. In his early twenties he started to write and turned his life around attending drug rehab, initiating acting lessons and performing in local theater.

After traveling to Europe, he parlayed acting into stand-up comedy and writing became his cathartic muse. He also started writing songs and playing more music and harmonica. After 17 years on “The Road” as an international headlining stand-up comedian Nicky stepped off the treadmill for a short period and has since returned to work in Las Vegas and small theaters. Nicky was labeled “One of the most original comedians working today” by BB Herman at HBO.

Nicky has since recorded ten albums of original music and is Guinness World Records “Fastest Harmonica Player.” Other RECENT credits include playing a belligerent drunk in the 2019 Academy Award winning movie, VICE.

In 2016, the creator of “Muggs and Toast” won Best Short Film at 2016 IFFF, International Family Film Festival, Hollywood, CA.

Now he is creating scripts for The Nobodies sitcom, painting commissions and a lot of surreal watercolor art while composing music and living in Los Angeles. Occasionally teaching a successful adult drama class. He also continues to work on a hand drawn animation project titled Nose-2-Noze while living in Los Angeles with Denise. Contact: nicky@nickyshane.com