May, 2006: Robert gets flown to Puerto Rico for a sales conference at the fabulous Westin Rio Mar resort where he performs for a packed crowd of over 500 insurance executives. President and CEO Jay WIntrob of AIG Retirement Services, Inc. had Robert put some pep into the crowd for an early morning meeting. Oh, and of course it was a private jet that Robert travelled on in style!
April 2006: With the DVD release of the fourth film in the franchise, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", a Warner Brothers executive has a special "Harry Potter" themed party. Robert is given official license to perform his comedy at the event as 'Professor Baxt' a wizard character from the American School of Wizarding; not "Hogwarts" but "Warthogs"!
March, 2006: Robert is cast as a recurring character in the pilot of "The Jeff Garlin Show", a sitcom shot at Paramount Studios in Hollywood for the TBS network. Besides star Jeff Garlin from HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm" with Larry David, other cast members included Phil Rosenthal who's better known as the creator and producer of "Everybody Loves Raymond", and Super Dave Osborne; plus special guest star Wayne Newton. Who's that in the other photo? Another co-star: Dan Caslellenata (better known for his voice over work as the animated Homer Simpson on FOX-TV's "The Simpsons").
February, 2006: The hit CBS-TV Friday night drama "The Ghost Whisperer" hires Robert as their technichal advisor to work with star Jennifer Love Hewitt for a special episode featuring dead magicians at a circus who come back to haunt the living. Robert's expertise in circus arts and magic had him on set coaching the actors for their parts.
January 31st, 2006: Robert performs his comedy after dinner at a corporate event at Universal Studios in Hollywood where he had all of Spartacus Square as his venue when a special stage was erected for the thousand guests attending a special Roman themed party on the back lot. Robert came, he saw, and he conquered!
.
January 2nd, 2006: For the fourth time, Robert was an emcee for the famous "Rose Bowl Parade" down Colorado Boulevard in sunny Pasadena, California. The televised event had Robert at the far end of the parade route working for the PartyWorks USA Group that took out a private grandstand for a block long stretch so their guests could sit in covered comfort with heaters to protect them from the morning chill.
End of December 2005: Robert took to the seas! Appearing on the Celebrity Cruise Lines ship "The Summit" for their holiday cruises to Hawaii. As ship's comedian Robert had plenty of funny jokes and lines for all the passengers in their 1,100 seat theater.
December 6th, 2005: Robert is the host and Master of Ceremonies for a special tribute in Las Vegas to legendary character actor and comedy magician Carl Ballantine. Famous for his many appearances on the old "Ed Sullivan Show", plus his years starring on the sitcom "McHale's Navy" with Ernest Borgnine, and his many TV and movie appearances including co-starring with Elvis Presley and Nancy Sinatra in the MGM film "Speedway"; Carl is honored at Ceasar's Palace by the International Brotherhood of Magicians and Robert is asked to play Billy Crystal for this night of celebrities honoring Carl. Steve Martin, Carl Reiner, Shirley Jones, Robin Leach, Penn and Teller, and Dick Van Patten are among the celebrities seen that night with Robert.
October 2005: MySpace.com has a special Halloween Night event at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, and Robert is hired to play host to a Carnival of Sideshow Freaks, emceeing and introducing the acts in between the rock bands playing. That's Robert in black at the front left of the troupe. In the other photo, Robert is not short, but the bald man standing next to him is over 7 feet tall! He's George the Giant, who was seen in the Tim Burton film "Big Fish" with Danny DeVito and Ewan McGregor.
