Michael Donovan Mitchell (born October 6, 1982) is an American actor, comedian, and writer best known as a member of The Birthday Boys sketch comedy group.

In 2014, he played a fictionalized version of himself in the short film The Badger's Promise, the directorial debuts of friends Harris Wittels and Armen Weitzman.

Mitchell was the head writer of Hidden America with Jonah Ray on the Seeso streaming service, and had the recurring role of Randy Monahan on the Netflix comedy series Love.

[4] In 2007, at UCB, Mitchell joined the sketch comedy group The Birthday Boys[5] with Jefferson Dutton, Dave Ferguson, Mike Hanford, Tim Kalpakis, Matt Kowalick, and Chris VanArtsdalen.

[11] The co-hosts review chain restaurants with a weekly guest, including Nicole Byer, Haley Joel Osment, Sarah Silverman, and all of the Birthday Boys, among others.

His co-host, Nick Wiger invites listeners to submit roasts of Mitchell to be read at the beginning of each episode, which often involve pop culture references and puns based on food or physique.

[14] On the June 13, 2019 episode of Doughboys, Wiger and Jason Mantzoukas offered Mitchell $15,000 if he could get an original song on the Billboard Hot 100 within a year.