After graduating from high school, Jones worked as an electrician for almost five years. Jones first came to attention after his video "Crackdown 2 – Orbs = Bullshit" reached the front page of reddit. He received an email from Rooster Teeth asking him to join and make a new show for Achievement Hunter, which became Rage Quit. In September 2011, he co-founded the triple award-winning Internet Box podcast hosted by himself, Barbara Dunkelman, Ray Narvaez, Jr., Andrew Blanchard, Mike Kroon, and Dylan "Dylon" Saramago, with Lindsay Jones and Kerry Shawcross being added to the cast later on. He is an occasional guest on the Rooster Teeth Podcast and is currently the main host of the Achievement Hunter podcast Off Topic and co-host of Face Jam along with Jordan Cwierz. Jones has worked as both an actor and a voice artist in multiple projects, several of which are produced by Rooster Teeth, including roles as Sun Wukong in Rooster Teeth's animated series RWBY, fictionalized versions of himself in both Rooster Teeth Shorts and Ten Little Roosters, Mogar in the animated series X-Ray and Vav, and Zach in the sci-fi comedy filmLazer Team and Lazer Team 2. He has co-starred in the Rooster Teeth series Immersion since season two. His non-Rooster Teeth credits include the animated shows Fairy Tail, as Sting Eucliffe, and , as Gen. On October 1, 2016, Jones announced via Twitter that he will be playing Dogra in One Piece. The creator of the video gameSurgeon Simulator named the alien character Gworb after a remark made by Jones in a Let's Play video in which Jones was conversing with Gavin Free. In addition Gworb has an organ known as the "Gavichal", which is a combination of Michael Jones' and Gavin Free's names.
Personal life
Jones was born in Woodbridge, New Jersey to "devout Roman Catholic parents." On May 9, 2014, Jones married long-time girlfriend and Rooster Teeth voice actor Lindsay Tuggey. During Rooster Teeth's 2016 Extra Life livestream, the couple announced that they are expecting a child, which was later revealed to be a girl in January 2017. They announced the birth of their daughter, Iris Elise Jones, born May 24, 2017. On August 5, 2018, Jones announced at RTX 2018 that he and Lindsay were expecting their second child in February 2019. Luna Claire Jones was born February 18, 2019.
