Robert Dubac- A Thinking Man's Comic / 2nd Interview - Show# 277

Robert Dubac (Bob) is a dynamic performer who has made a significant transition from stand-up comedy to the realm of compelling one-man shows. His productions, such as "The Male Intellect, An Oxymoron" "The Book of Moron," and "Stand Up Jesus," uniquely blend humor with intellectual messages, tackling complex subjects like religion with a comedic twist. Dubac's ability to entertain while educating audiences showcases his talent and success in the theatrical world, setting him apart with his incisive wit and insightful commentary. For those interested in experiencing his intelligent and witty performances, his latest show, "Stand Up Jesus," is scheduled at the Triad Theater in New York, promising an evening of laughter and thought.

(00:01:04) Stand-up Comedy with Intellectual Insight

(00:07:25) Engaging Audiences with Thoughtful Comedy Brilliance

(00:12:25) Challenges in Modern Standup Comedy Evolution

(00:17:17) Critical Reflection Through Dubac's One-Man Shows

(00:26:26) Intelligent Religious Humor Performances with Robert Dubac

(00:32:37) Thoughtful Stand-Up Comedy Movement

Transcript

R. Scott Edwards: 0:04

This is another episode of Stand Up Comedy. Your host and emcee celebrating 40 plus years on the fringe of show business stories, interviews and comedy sets from the famous and not so famous. Here's your host and emcee, Scott Edwards. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the podcast. Wow. I have an exciting interview for you today. I have interviewed this gentleman in depth previously. This is kind of a follow up and see what's going on with him. He's had all kinds of success. Let's get him on the show and then we'll talk about some of his great successful programs and ideas. I'm not saying this really well, but you're going to see what I'm talking about. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome back to the podcast, it's Robert Dubak. Bob, it's so nice to have you back on the podcast.

Robert Dubac: 1:02

Well, thanks. Thanks, Scott.

R. Scott Edwards: 1:04

You know, I was.

Robert Dubac: 1:04

Can I call you Scott or are you going by a different name now?

R. Scott Edwards: 1:07

No, Scott will work and he's joking because I call him Bob. Because we've known each other like 50 years. But he professionally goes by Robert Duback. So I wanted to get that out there. If you want to do any business with him or if you want to search for him on the Internet, it's Robert Duback and he is so successful. Let me lay the foundation and then we'll kind of get into a conversation. This man was a terrific, very successful stand up comic. He worked my clubs for years, always did well with the audiences and stuff and had a great career. Then he went into some self producing one man shows. He's got a series of them. The Male Intellect was his first one. Then he had the Book of Moron and now he's doing Stand Up Jesus. He still performs all three. But these are really funny and, and unique. Self produced one man shows. But he's more than that. He's a tremendous actor. He's done plenty of films and television and if that wasn't enough, he's the writer and director of a special show called Happyville starring Dave Shirley. Ladies and gentlemen, this is one successful guy. Bob, it's so amazing.

Robert Dubac: 2:28

I like the way you tailed off on that manufactured applause there where it just sounded like you put a pillow over their head and just kind of stifled them out. That's terrific. And you don't have to call me Bob anymore or Robert. You can just call me Jesus. That's the whole show I'm doing now. I mean, if we're gonna push things to the limit, let's go ahead and piss off all the evangelicals.

R. Scott Edwards: 2:53

Well, what's interesting is that you've always been a highly intelligent standup comic. I mean, even back when in your younger days, your material made people think. It was always really funny and engaging with the audience, but probably a little more thought provoking than some of your standard dick joke stand up guys, you know what I mean?

Robert Dubac: 3:12

Well, yeah, it's interesting. I try to avoid, I mean, if it wasn't between Comedy Central and Saturday Night Live, they've normalized dick jokes so much that the President of the United States can blow a microphone on the evening news and still not alienate the Bible Belt, for crying out loud. I mean, it's just, I mean, I think part of, I love comedy, but we dumbed it down so much. That's why we've got all these idiots in political office now. They just think they can say anything because we've been doing dick jokes for the past 40 years. It's ridiculous.

R. Scott Edwards: 3:43

Well, that's interesting.

Robert Dubac: 3:44

Nothing smart. Nothing smart is out there. Not much anyway.

R. Scott Edwards: 3:48

Well, and you bring up a good point. When we got started, and I don't want to put my audience through too much of this, they've heard it a hundred times. But when I opened my, my clubs in 1980, it was really the start of that big wave of stand up comedy. And back in the early 80s, a lot of great comics, Jerry Seinfeld, Gary Shandling, Jay Leno, people like you were coming together and bringing to the stage this new art form. It had been around a while, but not mainstream. And it was being accepted as a new art form. And there was a lot of thoughtful, more engaging material. And one of the reasons I got out of the business in a little past 2000 was that it was shifting, it was changing. There was less work put out by the comics to make their material intellectual.

Robert Dubac: 4:37

But you, yeah, it's all, you know, it's become image over substance. I mean, you know, they want clicks over merit and you know, they'll sit and complain about it. And obviously we're, and I'm in a position where I'm going to complain about it, but because, you know, I don't think it holds up to the gold standard anymore. But still, I think you're correct because people just don't, they're not impressed with it as like they were. I mean, you know, we used to really put time and effort into, I mean, the main guy of our generation is Seinfeld. The guy. All he did was sit and write. And it took us, you know, maybe years to realize, well, that's the route to go. We gotta. But at least we sat down and we put a lot of effort into the, into the writing. But I don't see that anymore. I think I see a lot of guys just go up and think they can wing it. You know, it's very few people who could get up there from our generation wing it. Obviously Robin Williams could do it. Even Shandling could do it. But, you know, there's people who just think, oh, my point of view is so important. I can just sit there and flap my gums and, you know, people will laugh. And the problem is when you start flapping your gums, it always resorts to dick jokes.

R. Scott Edwards: 5:39

Yeah. And I think it's interesting because you say people just go up and flap their gums. And it is a lot these days of people just going up and going, here's my opinion on something, and isn't that funny? And that's not how stand up comedy started. It was more a conversation with the audience where you engaged with them and you took them down a path of a story that had punchlines and had funny material. But there was usually, hey, I was traveling or I was dealing with my parents or I was dealing with my job. And there was this thread of consciousness that, that a good writing comic could bring material to.

Robert Dubac: 6:17

Well, yeah, that's true. I mean, there is a. I mean, there is still that nowadays. It's just that they bail out on setting up the punchline. I mean, it's all set up, set up, set up. It's, you know, here, let me tell you about a story. And let's hope something funny comes out of this memory of me telling you a story. And it's not, you know, it. Hey, what can I say? I mean, most of the stuff that I do, and especially the new show, Stand Up Jesus, is okay, what if Jesus came back as a stand up comedian? What would he have to say? So that's the premise.

R. Scott Edwards: 6:46

But Jesus isn't doing dick jokes. You're making it intelligent material.

Robert Dubac: 6:50

Well, of course Jesus doesn't have a dick. You know, it's an immaculate conception, for crying out loud. So, you know, he does, he can't resort to that. So that's, that's part of the positive of the show. And you know, he's Jesus, so he can, I mean, he's able to see even though he doesn't believe in intelligent design. He is designed with intelligence because he can see things that his stupid human beings can't quite take a look at. It's A big task and lesson in irony.

R. Scott Edwards: 7:25

Well, let's take you back to the beginning a little bit, Bob. You were a more thoughtful, intelligent comic. I know you. I know that was on purpose, but was it something that you, you know, were you just smart in school and thought, I want to bring this intelligence, make the audience think a bit, or did you just find it was. Made you. That was your hook that made you different than the other comics?

Robert Dubac: 7:53

Well, I think it eventually evolved into that. I think there was always part of my essence that just loathed stupidity. And I would intentionally try to write jokes that you had to be smart, not knowing that's what I was doing, that you had to at least pay attention. I mean, I tell people, you know, if you're thinking, you'll laugh. If you're not thinking, you still laugh. You just don't know why. So it's one of these things where I remember, even when we first started out, even working at the improv with Bud and, you know, some of the. Even before your clubs were realized, that they did want some of the silly prop stuff like, you know, Steve Martin, that was big and I. And they kept getting pushed. Don't be too smart, you know, you know you're going to chase the audience away. But I says, well, okay, well, why can't you be smart enough to draw them in? I mean, you have to kind of. You maybe kind of start out dumb, but you. You turn it into being smart as long as you're up there for a while. Nowadays, though, when you only got three or four minutes to get on stage, it's hard to set the. Set the table. I mean, my shows are an hour, an hour and a half long, so I can spend the first 10 minutes guiding everybody into the right path so that we can, you know, we start out dumb, but then we start. We get. You start thinking while you're watching it, but I don't know how you do it in three minutes.

R. Scott Edwards: 9:16

Right, right. Well, I think it's a. Well, I think it's interesting, because you bring up a good point, is that I think that producers, and I'm a producer, and I don't believe I thought this way, but I could see television and other stage producers making the assumption that the audience is stupid, that they're dumb, because in general, people can be smart, but the public is dumb. However, I think that the intelligence is there with the individuals, and it made you special that you kind of forced the audience to think, you know, if you're going to get this joke, you have to think a little. So if you're in a room of 200 people and 100 people are smart and get the joke right away, the other hundred people will figure it out because they don't want to be left out.

Robert Dubac: 10:08

That's true. That does happen. I mean, you also, you got to understand that it took us a long time to realize that there are different forms. Television has a. Doing stand up on TV has a completely different feel than doing stand up on stage. You do have to do really distinct. You know, I always talk television is two dimensional, you know, it's a flat screen, you know, you don't have any depth to it. Whereas on stage there's a third dimension. You can, you know, you have something that you're sharing and something that you know you're creating along with another group of people. On television it's not, it's just being seen. And that's where it's difficult to be smarter on television because you're not, you don't have that third dimension you're working with. So it just takes a little more practice and more craft. You know, I see nowadays, you know, some of the, some of the kids that get on stand up on television, on some of the late shows, it just, it's unbearable because they haven't realized. No, it's a different medium. You can't do what you do in the clubs in front of a camera.

R. Scott Edwards: 11:12

Well, to your point earlier about the Internet stars that think they're funny because they can do 30 seconds or one minute and make people laugh and then you put them in front of a live audience and they're supposed to do 15, 20 minutes. They're totally lost because their whole world is 30 second TikTok videos.

Robert Dubac: 11:32

I know, and we do sound like a couple of grumpy old men here talking about that. But at least, you know, I mean, there's some self deprecation that needs to be involved. There's some sort, you know, I just think that the practice of the entertainment, I mean, I still fail to call it an art form because that's a whole different discussion. But the fact that you still need to, it's not like a musician who can go over a song over and over again in the studio by himself and listen to it and see how it changes. I mean, you do need an audience. You do need something to get some feedback and it's harder and harder. You're not going to get that doing TikTok videos and YouTube videos, whatever your two minutes of dry bar comedy is.

R. Scott Edwards: 12:25

Well, it's interesting. And I think that we've touched on something important in that comedy. Standup comedy is entertainment form. It has definitely changed over the decades. We, we come from a different generation. We might be the grumpy old men, but I think we were doing it right. I'm going to get on my soapbox and say that now in your case, we were talking about the dumbing down of the audiences or the entertainment to engage the audiences. When you went from stand up comedy to producing your first self produced one man show, the first one was called the Male Intellect, which, which coincidentally talks about.

Robert Dubac: 13:10

That's not the full, the full title is the Male Intellect. An oxymoron. So there, I mean, just that's the setup and the punchline all in the title. So, you know, that just shows you that it adds more. It took a while to come up with that title, to be honest. Took longer to come up with a title than it did to write the show. But I mean, that's just the discipline that comes in with having to explain everything right from the start.

R. Scott Edwards: 13:34

Well, but I think it's so funny that the title is the joke, but the point of your show, that first one man self produced show was the challenge that the male of the species had in relationships because we're basically stupid. And that was, you know, how did that first show come about?

Robert Dubac: 14:00

Well, it's, you know, I mean, it's interesting. I always, I tell people this, what's happened with the Male Intellect? I mean, that was the first show I wrote. It's now 25 years old. I constantly update it. But it has more, as much, if not more value now than it did back then because then I tried to get ahead of the curve. It was basically men admitting that we had it wrong and we had to figure it out. The whole show is about a guy who listens to an older generation of men who have real bad advice, which is kind of what happened to all of us. You know, we grew up listening to these older guys and now it's come completely full circle where we're listening to these, you know, misogynistic guys on the Internet or whatever. And it's, and it's, there's no question as to why, you know, young men in this country are at a loss. I mean, they, they're just not getting any information correct or they're getting a lot of information. They're just not getting a lot of useful facts.

R. Scott Edwards: 14:56

Well, I think it's because they're getting their information from the Internet instead of from life. You know.

Robert Dubac: 15:02

Well, true. And they're afraid of life, I guess, you know, they're not out there.

R. Scott Edwards: 15:05

Yeah, we learn from the road of hard knocks and make mistakes and learn from them. And now, you know, you watch these stupid videos and you're trying to emulate some other idiot, you know, I mean.

Robert Dubac: 15:17

Yeah, so I mean, that's a good word, emulate. Because that's instead of it being any experience, it's emulation. And again, we're now back to image over substance. It's, you know, how do I appear to be, how do I act, how can I act like I am somebody instead of having the experience that you can actually garner some, some facts and experience from what you've done instead of what you're watching people and you know, look, if you were very impressionable, I mean, we all were when we were young about, you know, you're told what to do and you follow it. That's kind of, I mean, to bring this back around to religion. You're indoctrinated at a young age. I don't care if it's whatever it is that you're told to believe, but at one point you believe there is no Santa Claus, but you still believe there's a Jesus. There's a part that there's a reason why when we inscript young men and women to go into the army, we do it before they're 21. Because your damn brain's not even functional at full capacity until, you know, you're 25. So you can still be told what to do. So you sit there and you listen to Andrew Tate or you listen to Rogan or any of these guys will form your. I mean, there's a huge, you know, amount of young men that are believing in just things that they don't that have no basis in fact, but it makes them comfortable.

R. Scott Edwards: 16:31

Well, they're moldable.

Robert Dubac: 16:33

Yeah, very moldable at that age.

R. Scott Edwards: 16:35

And the government is smart and takes advantage of that so that they get the army that they want as opposed to a group of self.

Robert Dubac: 16:46

But the army they're getting now can't fit into a set of average sized fatigues. So you're going to have a physical army that's unable to run a mile.

R. Scott Edwards: 16:59

Well, that is true. It has changed a bit. So you had the male intellect, which is, you're still performing, it's still very successful and still touches audiences. But then you wrote the Book of Moron and that was a different iteration of the same topic. Really.

Robert Dubac: 17:17

Well, you know, it didn't really have anything to do with, with relationships at all. I mean, the way I look at the arc of all these three shows is it's very similar to a lot of comedians, starting with Mark Twain. You start out talking about, you know, adolescence and relationships, which is what he did with Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. And then you later get into politics, which Twain did. And then later he completely, you know, rallied against religion. I mean, you see Carlin do that. You see, you know, Prior did that. I mean, it was, it's, it's common, I think, just in the way human beings grow and mature. So the Book of Moron, the overall theme is about, you know, stupidity. Whether you're stupid about relationships, you're stupid about culture and politics, you're stupid about, you know, your indoctrination. And it's not necessarily any of these shows are saying you can't have a different point of view. What they're saying is you should have some critical thought in whatever point of view you choose. So. And I don't think critical thought is encouraged.

R. Scott Edwards: 18:23

Well, I just try to.

Robert Dubac: 18:25

So that's what I try to do in the shows against a huge problem.

R. Scott Edwards: 18:30

But I think it's great that you.

Robert Dubac: 18:31

Explained I should be doing my shows to people who are in grammar school and in high school. They're the ones before their brains have been formed. They should be watching my stuff instead of now trying to get them at 40 and 50 years old to look at a different point of view.

R. Scott Edwards: 18:45

There's some truism there. But I think it's interesting you explain that the arc of the shows and the arc of your entertainment also follows the arc of our own lives and how we grow as people and make different decisions and see the world in different ways. You had great success with the Male Intellect, the oxymoron, great success with the Book of Moron. They're both still out there and doing very well. And then you transitioned a little and went straight into religion. I think one of the funniest concepts, and I think your newest and most successful show, Stand Up Jesus, really touches so many people in so many ways. And it is, it makes sense that it was the last generation of your self produced shows. But for you, what, what made that writing happen?

Robert Dubac: 19:38

You know, I've always toyed around with it and when I do these shows, I try to, I think I said earlier, try to get ahead of the curve, but you can get too far ahead of it. I mean, 10 years ago and even as much as 20 years ago, you couldn't really poke, you know, immediate people think I'm poking fun at Jesus, and I'm not. Jesus is poking fun at us. He's saying how everybody got. You guys have got it all wrong. You know, you've taken my word and tried to make it fit into your world instead of the other way around. I'm just giving you this barometer of things to try to ease your life. But they automatically are judgmental, which is obviously the first thing that any kind of religious Christianity teaches is don't be a judge. Except for Jesus, of course. Jesus, he can judge you.

R. Scott Edwards: 20:29

He's the ultimate judge. Right?

Robert Dubac: 20:31

So. The ultimate. Right, he says. So, you know, that's where the irony comes in, where the thought process, the critical thought, and a lot of humor.

R. Scott Edwards: 20:39

Let's be honest, Bob, huge amount, really funny.

Robert Dubac: 20:42

It is. I mean, and the thing is, 15, 20 years ago, you couldn't even. It was hard enough to tell you, first of all, you never were able to do any kind of religious stuff on television. They just wouldn't. You'd be censored. Whether it was Carson or any of these shows, they wouldn't let you do it. So you had to do it in the clubs. Obviously, you have to wedge it in between dick jokes. You get people, you know, so. And this country has such a perverse evangelical movement that, you know, you start telling jokes about religion, you're a felon. Their eyes. No, you should be thrown in jail. You're a hypocrite, you're a heretic. So you kind of had to wait for a little more of this pushback from the religious right. I mean, it's still very heavy out there. And I actually still want to do this show in the Bible Belt because I figure the more I get picketed, the more publicity will get. And like I said, it's got a better message than you actually think it does. I mean, these religious zealots have no idea. They try to judge the show before without even seeing it.

R. Scott Edwards: 21:54

No, they're going off the title without giving it and you the opportunity to show that it's really pro Jesus, anti human beings. But I think it's interesting and very true that many people would see you as the heretic, as making fun of religion, when really you're just finding the funny in religion as opposed to making fun of it. The other thing I think is true is you should be extra successful in the next few years with Stand Up Jesus because there is this kind of backlash against woke society and everybody being judged on everything they say and do. And even though there are still 10 I don't know, hopefully smaller. 5% of the population that is really pushing and living, that the rest of the world has moved on and realized that words don't kill you and that everybody has a chance to express their opinion and not be judged and be wokeified or whatever and stand up. Jesus really is a great triumph of your writing. And it's so funny. And it really attacks something that's right there in front of all of our faces.

Robert Dubac: 23:10

Yeah, I mean, there is a. There is a timing that's involved that you can't control, and it seems to have beginning speed. I mean, like I was saying, I can now. I mean, there's so many people that. And look, I'm going to be a complete hypocrite here and say on TikTok and YouTube, there's plenty of videos that are funny about Jesus. So you've already got that out in the zeitgeist. People are already aware there is no way. Unless you were. And even Andy Kaufman wouldn't have done it where he'd walk out and say, I'm Jesus. I mean, you can't even, you know, you could tell jokes about Jesus, but you couldn't say, I am Jesus. And who's to say that any of us aren't? So. But now I think you can kind of get away with that. And because you're, you know, you're trying to involve everybody's critical thought into understanding this. So if the timing has opened it up to be acceptable. But also there's just as much negative push against it too. I mean, I mean, I've already done. I did a show did Jesus in North Carolina, in Charlotte, which is the home of Billy Graham. And this was a couple years ago when I was first working on it. And I come out and the truck is completely keyed. It's completely damaged. And these are Christians now that are.

R. Scott Edwards: 24:26

Oh, yeah. No, they're always the most judgy in.

Robert Dubac: 24:29

Fishing and the most violent.

R. Scott Edwards: 24:30

Right, right. I mean, think we see.

Robert Dubac: 24:33

Because, look, you can't fault them because they grew up in believing in violence. I mean, just the crucifixion of Christ is nothing but a violent image. And they have completely been normalized to this thinking that this is piety. And it's not. It's torture. It's, you know, it's any kind of torture that any political force has gone through in any war with any prisoners. It is basic. It's torture that we have glorified. Well, obviously they can say, well, I can torture anybody I want because I believe in torture.

R. Scott Edwards: 25:07

I believe in Jesus, but in the.

Robert Dubac: 25:09

Jesus is the first one in the show to say, hey, you guys got it wrong. Quit praying to torture. I mean, you know, I understand that, you know, the human being, you know, it's like train wrecks get more clicks than Kumbaya's. But you know, you gotta stop with this. If it bleeds, it leads kind of thought process.

R. Scott Edwards: 25:28

Well, those are all very important thoughts. And I think it's amazing that, that your very intellectual mind is able to write and bring to audiences these important messages. But I think we don't want to lose sight of the fact that as at its base you're a stand up comic and you are funny and you are just taking a little bit more intellectual and serious view of the world or religion. But you never give up on the concept that you can do it in a funny way and entertain an audience. And I think that's your gift to entertainment, Bob, is that you're able to take these challenging subjects and bring the funny in such a smart way that it not only entertains, but it educates the audiences. And I think that that's your gift to the world. And thank you for that. It's really important stuff.

Robert Dubac: 26:26

We're bringing that gift to New York city on the 14th and 15th of November. So Jesus is going to do his second coming in New York at the Triad Theater.

R. Scott Edwards: 26:35

Well, I was just about to say.

Robert Dubac: 26:37

Every gig he does is his second coming.

R. Scott Edwards: 26:40

Well, that's a great transition, Bob. Actually that's for the audience.

Robert Dubac: 26:46

Yeah, that's because we're comedians. We know how to write a segue, which is another thing you're not going to find with the younger generation.

R. Scott Edwards: 26:55

They don't understand that at all. But it's Robert Dubak if you want to find him and find his shows. So all three of these shows are still in production, Bob. What's coming up is, you know, you have the show in New York in November with Stand Up Jesus and that's the newest show. So you do that more often. But they're all being done right?

Robert Dubac: 27:18

Right. They are nothing. Kind of taking a hiatus this summer because we're organizing and getting things going. I really want to put more time into doing Jesus than the other ones. But we still have a bunch of other bookings with those. But the main focus to come back out in the fall mainly with Jesus, and then supplement it with the other shows.

R. Scott Edwards: 27:39

And what's going on with the Dave Shirley show, Happy Ville?

Robert Dubac: 27:43

Well, that's kind of in flux right now. It's A great visual piece. It's almost like bringing a television on screen and kind of a live stage television show. And it's really hard to describe, but it's also. It's a silent. There's no dialogue. Everything is visual. And it's a difficult show to produce. So we're having, you know, there's a lot of moving parts in it, so we're still kind of pushing that thing and trying to get it moving. But it's one of those shows that's got a, you know, a real fun, heartfelt message without. There's no. It's not like the preaching that I do in my shows. This is, you know, like a haphazard guy who, you know, is very lonely and he has to figure out how to find happiness. And he does it by, you know, ordering happiness from Amazon in a box and it gets delivered to his door. So it's a huge visual kind of prop comedy with no dialogue.

R. Scott Edwards: 28:49

Well, and again, you're pushing the boundaries of entertainment, Mr. Dubak, that I think is really interesting. And as the writer and director of this show, again, you're pushing the audience to think and you're engaging them, but without the dialogue. It's taking that different approach of using props and physical actions. Dave Shirley must be very expressive as an entertainer, as an actor, because you have to bring that and write to the audience to engage them. And I think that sounds like a really. That's the one of your shows I haven't seen. I've seen all the others, but that one is. Sounds incredible. I'm have to check it out.

Robert Dubac: 29:30

Dave was. He was a finalist on America's Got Talent, you know, probably about five, six years ago. And we took what success was there and put it together and made the show out of it. So it's. It stems from. From that and all his. He was. He started out as a street performer, so he's got a lot of these, you know, anywhere from juggling to, you know, visual prop things that, you know. I mean, he will juggle knives, but he slits his wrists when he does it. So blood's going all over the place, you know, so we work that into the story where there has to be us Union, kind of a religious story where there has to be a sacrifice in order to get what you want.

R. Scott Edwards: 30:13

Find happiness. Right?

Robert Dubac: 30:15

Yeah, exactly.

R. Scott Edwards: 30:17

Well, Bob, you are so inventive and creative, and I know that you've got all three of these shows, but Stand Up Jesus is the main push right now. But going into 2026, is there any projects or new writings on the horizon or are you just.

Robert Dubac: 30:36

Well, the only thing that I'm doing right now which I don't know whether it'll ever. It's to go all the way back to stand up comedy would be kind of a whistleblower and to, you know, it's to take the grumpy old man and show everybody what. What's wrong with stand up comedy? So it's kind of counterintuitive but you know, it's basically, it's, it's, it's a show that. It's probably not quite a full length, you know, hour and a half show, but it's probably a 40, 45 minute. Could be something that. Do you know, if I were to.

R. Scott Edwards: 31:09

Get Bob, I'm not sure. Are you doing any stand up to keep your chops or your shows keep you busy?

Robert Dubac: 31:15

Well, I'd like to, I'm not as much. But you know, this is, you know, you've got a problem now with the clubs aren't the way they used to. People wouldn't go. People don't go to the clubs. Now to the interest in discovering something isn't there. They want to go see something they've already seen. They've. You can't. Clubs want obviously the acts to bring their own audiences. Ironically, here in California, in Los Angeles, where I live, is the last place in the country or in the world that I have an audience everywhere else in the country they are familiar with my shows and I do them. So for me to get into a club here in la, it's almost like I gotta explain to them that I've been doing this for a while. But they don't, right?

R. Scott Edwards: 31:56

They wanna know your.

Robert Dubac: 31:58

They want to know how many clicks I have and how many people are on my Instagram account. And I says, well, I'm sorry but I was born before Instagram.

R. Scott Edwards: 32:08

Well, that's too bad. But I think that knowing your material and the way you think that you would be very entertaining both in a comedy club or in a theater with your one man shows. And I hope that you're able to keep doing both because as I've mentioned, it's real advantageous for your audiences to get a chance to kind of hear how your brain works. Because I think it kind of makes everybody else's brain work. So congratulations.

Robert Dubac: 32:37

We can condense it down in one nice little catchphrase. More truth, less dick jokes.

R. Scott Edwards: 32:43

More truth, less dick jokes. I like that. Wait a minute.

Robert Dubac: 32:47

There you go.

R. Scott Edwards: 32:50

Well, we're going to have to leave it at that. Bob, if people want to learn more about the shows, maybe book your show in one of their theaters or pick up your DVDs or CDs. How best to reach you best way is the website.

Robert Dubac: 33:06

It's Robert Dubeck.com. got the schedule, it's got everything else, contact information. And like I said, the big push is going to be in November at the Triad Theater in New York the 13th and 14th of November.

R. Scott Edwards: 33:20

Oh, that'll be a great risen if you're anywhere on the East Coast. Yeah, if you're anywhere on the east coast, get up to New York in November, look for the Robert Dubac show Stand Up Jesus and experience the second coming.

Robert Dubac: 33:34

Yes, and don't confuse Jesus in New York with any of the other homeless Jesus that are on the street or.

R. Scott Edwards: 33:42

All the other goofballs dressed up. And if you want to learn more or book him because he's extremely funny, go to robertduback.com that's robertduback-u b a c.com and connect with this intelligent and very funny person. Bob, it's so great to have you back on the podcast. Thank you so much.

Robert Dubac: 34:05

Thanks, Scott.

R. Scott Edwards: 34:06

Ladies and gentlemen, we'll be back next week some more great stand up comedy. Thanks for joining us. Thanks, Bob.

Robert Dubac: 34:13

Thanks, Scott.

R. Scott Edwards: 34:14

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