Mike Yard is a contributor for The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore. Yard was previously the winner of Comedy Central's Get Up, Stand Up comedy competition.

Prior to joining The Nightly Show, Yard toured actively as a stand up comic and appeared on Comic View, Def Comedy Jam, and Comedy at the Apollo. On The Nightly Show, he is known as one of the show's leading contributors, serving as a comic "foil" to host Larry Wilmore and for his role in political skits such as his portrayal of a talking gun named "Hand Gun".