He also played Herb Melnick on the CBS comedy Two and a Half Men and was a performer on the show Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza.

[1][2] He grew up with his mother, a homemaker, and his father, a supervisor at a Vancouver-based Canadian fish processing plant.

During this time, he was the head writer of The Don Harron Show on CTV and the host of Comedy College on CBC.

Stiles was a regular improv performer with the Vancouver Theatresports League and Punchlines' "No Name Player" before joining the Second City comedy ensemble at Expo 86.

Stiles received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program in 2002 for his work on the show.

[3] A running gag of the show is Stiles' flashy dress shoes as well as his frequent impressions of American actress Carol Channing.

Though he never appeared in the series, Stiles (along with Kaitlin Olson) performed in the taping of the unaired pilot episode of Drew Carey's Green Screen Show, which involved improv games similar to Whose Line?

During the 1994 Major League Baseball strike, Stiles appeared in several commercials for Nike, hanging out in an empty ballpark, doing things such as playing the organ and attempting to do the wave alone.

[6] This role led to gamers voting to induct him into the 2015 class of the DK Vine Hall of Fame.