Editing Mike Myers (section)

=== Early career ===
Myers began performing in commercials at two years old. At the age of 10, he made a commercial for [[British Columbia Hydro]], with [[Gilda Radner]] playing his mother.<ref name="tiscali1"/> At 12, he made a guest appearance as Ari on the TV series ''[[King of Kensington]]''. At 16, he was the guest star of the season 1 episode "Boy on Wheels" of the TV series ''[[The Littlest Hobo]]''.

After graduating from high school, Myers was accepted into [[The Second City]] Canadian touring company. He moved to the United Kingdom, and in 1985 he was one of the founding members of [[The Comedy Store Players]], an improvisational group based at [[The Comedy Store (London)|The Comedy Store]] in London.

The next year, he starred in the British children's TV program ''[[Wide Awake Club]]'', parodying the show's normal exuberance with his own "Sound Asleep Club", in partnership with [[Neil Mullarkey]].

He returned to Toronto and [[The Second City]] in 1986 as a cast member in The Second City's Toronto main stage show, [[Second City Theatre]].<ref name=ott>{{cite web|title = Mike Myers|url = http://www.secondcity.com/people/other/mike-myers/|website = [[The Second City]]|access-date = May 31, 2015}}</ref> In 1988, he moved from Second City in Toronto to Chicago. There, he trained, performed and taught at the [[Improv Olympic]].

Myers made many appearances, including as Wayne Campbell, on Toronto's [[Citytv]] in the early 1980s, on the alternative video show ''[[City Limits (TV series)|City Limits]]'' hosted by [[Christopher Ward (songwriter)|Christopher Ward]]; Myers also made several appearances after the launch of [[MuchMusic]], for which ''City Limits'' was essentially the prototype. Myers also appeared as Wayne Campbell in the music video for Ward's Canadian hit "Boys and Girls".

The Wayne Campbell character was featured extensively in the 1986 summer series ''[[It's Only Rock & Roll (TV series)|It's Only Rock & Roll]]'', produced by Toronto's Insight Production Company for [[CBC Television]]. Wayne appeared both in-studio and in a series of location sketches directed and edited by [[Allan Novak]]. Myers wrote another sketch, "Kurt and Dieter", co-starring with Second City's [[Dana Andersen]] and also directed by Novak, which later became the popular "[[Sprockets (Saturday Night Live)|Sprockets]]" sketch on ''Saturday Night Live''.