New York Attitude

When he was 8 years old, Mike Vogel rode the NYC subways for fun, going to Coney Island and the beach with his rowdy Brooklyn pals. In his early 20s, Vogel married and taught sixth grade in Brooklyn's East New York/Brownsville section, which he says included some wonderful kids and not so wonderful stitches from breaking up classroom brawls. At 30, Vogel "flipped out", got divorced, quit teaching, moved to Manhattan and went into standup comedy, performing song parodies at Dangerfield's and also