Actor, writer, artist, musician, and international headlining stand-up comedian, Nicky's the quintesential "rolling stone that gathers no moss."
During his 18-year span as a stand-up comic, Nicky worked at clubs like the NY Improv, Dangerfields, and Wolf's Comedy Den in Las Vegas. He's been a voiceover artist for various projects including the 1920's radio-style adventure podcast Tales Of The Liberty Flyer, and has more than 10 albums to his credit as songwriter, singer and harp player (he currently holds the “Guinness World Records, Fastest Harmonica Player” - est 2005). He has also painted over 700 watercolors, many of which are in private collection across the globe.
He began his professional standup career in the early 1980s during the beginning of the "Golden Age of Stand-up". Since then he's written more than 25 screenplays, ten sitcom pilots, hundreds of shorts like What if Everyone Was Famous and It Was Cool to Be Nobody and authoring the books Endorphin Man and Little Sara Tonin and How To Get Started in the Stand-up Comedy Business.
Among Nicky's expansive porfolio of creativity are the 700+ surreal and highly imaginative works (pen and watercolor) that he's painted over the years. With series titles like Surreal Chess Series,Voluptuous Mermaids, I Felt Naked On Stage, and Surreal Harmonica, he continues to create new pieces to this day.
In 2014, Nicky travelled to Louisville, Kentucky to film his live stad-up special Nicky "The Buzzard" Shane.
As the creator of Muggs & Toast, Nicky won Best Short Film at the 2016 International Family Film Festival (Hollywood, CA), and more recently he played a belligerent drunk in the 2019 Academy Award winning movie VICE, seen yelling over Dick Cheney's speech.
Musically, Nicky's been just as studios with 10 CD titles released to-date and he still holds the Guinness World Record for Fastest Harmonica Player, a record he set in 2005. He's written and/or co-written over 200 songs and has toured throughout the world. His songs have been included in a number of motion pictures.
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Selected Discography
- Metaphor of Me
- Dancing in My Car
- Freight Train
- In that of Itself
- Welcome To LA
- Streets of LA
- February Fallacy
- Done Before
- Over a Cup of Coffee
- Slip Away
- Cave Concerto Opus 2 Eb and Cm
- Air Cooled Soul
- Soaring Harmonica
- 3:00 AM
- Mars is Getting Closer
- Yes Boss
- Hammers to Roses
- Sarcasm Blues
- I Am the Wind
- Pretending You Care
- Survival
- 5th Street
- Manipulation
- A Day Wasted
- Troubadour
- Decisions
- Iron Wolves
- Money, Money, Money
- Money Tough
- Relentless
- Mardi Gras
- Angelina Jolie
- Post Grad
- Breathe
- Hollywood and Vine
- Never Again
- Running With the Wind
- Sunrise on Sunset Blvd
- Wait One Minute
- Slave To the Money
- February Fallacy
- I Ain’t Stopping
- Unbelievable
- Anybody Wonder
- Just be Thankful
- Peanut Butter
- Second Chance
- Where Were You
- Sick Love
CD Releases
- Iconoclast Rebel
- The Age of Rhythm (Instrumental)
- Bluzeffer with Angelo Santi
- Nicky Shane x 2 with Angelo Santi
- Heavy Metal Harmonica #1
- Heavy Metal Harmonica #2
- UnderGround Garage Music
- Kiss a Toad with Nik Andjam
- Nicky Shane Band
- NSB Assorted Singles
Catalogue Raisonné (Selected Artworks)
- 1949
- A Place in Time
- Alien Mermaids
- Alien Skateboarders
- Animation Massage Room
- Artist on a Date
- Asian Influence
- Asian Tree Muscle
- Assorted Cartoon cars...
- Autumn Blues
- Autumn Bridge
- Autumn Silence
- Back Door Bloom
- Basketball Ballet
- Bass Heavy (Graphite)
- Beer Celebration
- Beer City
- Better Nature Meditation
- Between Takes
- Billie Holiday
- Blue Bottles
- Blue Bridge
- Blue Door
- Bottle People
- Brooklyn Apartments
- Buddha Harmonica
- Buddha in Grass
- Cafe 1953
- Cafe for One #1
- Cafe for One #2
- Cafe Noir
- Cafe PM
- California Lottery
- Celebration
- Chip Flatow (Book)
- Christmas Mountains
- City Music Portal
- City Scape of Buildings, views...
- Cleveland Fish
- Clippers on a Ship
- Coffee Heaven
- Comedy Heaven (With Clouds)
- Comedy Heaven (Without Clouds)
- Comedy Juke Box
- Comic Stonehenge
- Critics Hotel
- Crooked Castle
- Crystal Music Portal
- Dance Matters
- Dear Mrs. Fantasy
- Denise Villa
- Desert Dishrack
- Desert Floral
- Dog Kite (Copyrighted)
- Dolphin Love
- Dragon Harmonica Lesson
- Dress up Shoes
- Early Lion Man
- Early Stand-up Comedy Art
- Eiffel Tower
- Emeses Evolution
- Endorphin Man (Superhero Book Cover)
- Eternal Verdict
- Everyone's A Critic
- Excuse Us, Just Passing Through (Skateboard Series)
- FEAR
- Filmmaker with Camera
- Find Yourself Again
- Finite Pretense
- Finite Pretense (Chess Art)
- First Wisdom
- Fish Cube
- Fishing For Time
- Floral (Colored pencil)
- Foggy Creek
- Foggy Forest
- Forever Laughing
- Forever Reflecting
- Gallant Chess
- Gentrification
- Getting Down
- Golden Gate Bridge in Fog
- Golfing With a Shell Phone
- Graphite - Bass Player
- Graphite - Rock Warrior
- Graphite Series Tonya Harding HM Skate Co.
- Groucho Mermaids
- Guitar Heaven (Watercolor)
- Guitar Heaven (Watercolor w/fog)
- Hammerhead Harmonica
- Hanging Out at The Castle
- Harmonica Confession
- Harmonica Gods and Goddesses
- Harmonica Island
- Harmonica Love
- Harmonica Portal
- Harmonica Wind (Pastel)
- Hip Hop Harmonica
- Hollywood Harmonica
- Hollywood Party
- Horse Carriages
- January Blooms
- Jazz while Surfing
- Joe Satriani
- Kids Soundcheck
- Kings and Queens - Chess
- Lake Guitar
- Lakeside Picnic
- Land of Wind
- Laughing Window Opening
- Leaning Against Time, Myself and The Future
- License To Be Crazy - Ink
- License To Be Crazy (Book Cover)
- Lizard Rock Star (Graphite)
- Looking Through My Window
- Lorain Lighthouse
- Lost Harmonica
- Loud Mouths #1 #2
- MaLion (Graphite)
- Mars Swan
- Meditation
- Meeting An Old Friend
- Merci Beaucoup
- Mermaid Ballet
- Mermaid Chess
- Mermaid Wedding
- Merry Go Metro
- Metaphor
- Metaphor (Pastels)
- Mexican Taco Truck
- Midnight Cafe
- Midnight Noon
- Mike and Adam at the Pond
- Miles Davis Parents
- Moms Rule
- More Blue Bottles
- More Coffee
- More Mermaids
- Morning Meditation
- Mount Laugh-More
- Muggs and Toast Animated Backgrounds
- Music City Portal, Trumpet
- Music Portals
- Music Tree Bridge
- Naked STILL LIFE
- Nicky The Corner of Life
- Purple Noze (Off Road Car)
- Noze-ville Hotel
- Noze Knows, Minoze (Animation)
- Paris on Mars
- Paris on Saturn
- Party's Over
- Peace on Earth
- Penitencia Creek (Growing up)
- Phuck Off (Terminator)
- Picnic Jam with Instruments
- Pirate Ships
- Planet Noze2Noze
- Planet Open Mic
- Planet Space Junk Party
- Played Out To The 5th
- Portland on Mars
- Prince Roaming the Cosmos
- Chess Queen #1
- Chess Queen #2
- Raining Umbrellas
- Rainy Day at The Park
- Reinterpretation Of Matter Design (Or fish fetish)
- Reinvent Yourself Coffee
- Renaissance Bridge
- Right On Time
- Under water
- Rockin' Out and In
- Room in Your Coffee
- Saxophone Mermaid
- Say Goodbye
- Seasonal Songwriting
- Shoe Dragster
- Short Blue Bottles
- Silver Tone (Color) Comedy Heaven
- Skateboard City
- Skateboard Freeway
- Sleeping Seaweed
- Something Else
- Songwriter (Studio)
- Space Shuttle
- Steam Punk Jazz
- Steam Punk Skateboard Parade
- Still Life Music
- Sunday Dance
- Sunday Morning
- Sunset Eiffel Tower
- Surreal Floral Party
- Surreal Layered Notes (Tiny Studio, LA)
- Surreal Self-Portrait
- Swells Up (Surfing)
- Swimming Free (Mermaids)
- Taking Over The Factory – Skateboard Art
- Tall Tales (Mermaids at the Bar)
- The Battle For Time and Eternity (Ink)
- The Big Bell (Saxophone)
- The Blues Has No Face
- The Discussion
- The Healing
- The Height of Autumn
- The Neighborhood (European)
- The Race, Big Daddy, Ed Roth
- The Rain Drop
- The Road of No Fear – Skateboard Art
- The Second Goodbye
- The Storks Play Vegas
- The Summer Wind (Mermaid)
- The Visit
- The Window of Time
- Time Divided
- Time for a Change "All Black Lives Matter"
- Tree Bridge (for Brian Buel)
- Twilight Carousel
- Two Sides of Autumn
- U – Turn in Life
- Umbrellas in Paris
- Valentine Mermaid
- Voyeuristic Notes
- Waiting for High Tide
- Walking the Fish
- Watercolors NY Buildings, Chicago
- Welcome To Comedy Hell
- Welcome To Comedy Heaven
- Where Are We?
- White Oak Falls
- Willie Dixon
- Window Flowers
- Yin Yang Mermaids
Just Keeps Getting Better
Brian Buel - Baby Mogul
Your art is consistently getting richer and more vibrant while the subject matter increasingly becomes more and more fascinating. Your "Fat Mermaids" adorns the aft stateroom in my yacht.
Stand-up Comedy Review
Eric Kopatz - Film Producer, Actor2
Funny and Interesting Nicky. Your character creation of Buzzard is a unique take and perspective...very organized and original. Interesting in a chaplanesque keatonesque Mel brooks sensitive way endearing in its planned awkwardness. I thought for a minute of you as Gene Kelly and Shirley MacLaine in ‘What A Way to Go !’ Wow Your Harp playing is out of this world bro ! Sounds Amazing! Enjoyable! .
PLAYED OUT TO THE 5TH
Atelston Fitzgerald Holder 1st, Harlem Times Review
The expressive sentiments of this piece is subjective and opened to interpretation based on someone’s artistic appreciation, experience and visual relation; although the painter’s landscape of explanation and definition has its own connotative, It’s relativistic viewpoint in proportion with something else emulates its value in a priceless category that’s immeasurable!
Awesome!
Antonio Martinez
The artistic ability of this individual is altruistic, poetic, and justifying! I am enthralled!
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As an artist, whether visual, musical, in my comedy and other writing, I find that the juxtaposition of verisimilitude is where I like to land, hopefully next door to surrealism and innuendo, preferably in the Lydian Mode. — Nicky Shane