November 2007: The Mouse welcomes Robert! Yes, that's right through connections that may or may have included Robert's friend, Disney Legend Wally Boag (mentioned extensively by Steve Martin in his new autobiography "Born Standing Up" as one of Steve's idols and mentors), Robert was allowed to enter the famous, exclusive, and secret private club at Disneyland: "Club 33". Sorry, it's so very secret and exclusive that no pictures are allowed of Robert inside!

October 2007: The Halloween season brought little people in costumes but not what you think! Robert was back in Las Vegas to star in the show "Little Legends" at the Planet Hollywood Casino. The "Entertainment Tonight" TV show broadcast a piece on the show and Robert was seen by millions of people nationwide. Further fame came when the Los Angeles Times nespaper did an article on the show that mentioned Robert in the November 8th edition of its "The Envelope" section.

September 2007: This month was a very busy one for Robert! In the middle of the controversy over Ellen Degeneres giving away the dog she adapted, Robert can be seen in a commercial with Ellen promoting her new Variety show on TBS. Watch for Robert as he plays "Ned" Sullivan, the host of a hokey, old time Variety show who is bumped out of the way by Ellen Degeneres riding a unicycle(!) as she urges viewers to watch her new weekly Variety Show from Ceasar's Place in Las Vegas. Then Robert was flown to the Island of Maui where he wrote jokes, lines, and bits for the review show at the Ka'anapali Beach Hotel, Maui's most Hawaiian Hotel. Plus somewhere in between, Robert was sent to England to emcee and host an International Variety Show. Robert was so jet lagged by the time changes he is sure he called himself from the U.K. and recieved the call in Hawaii before he left!

August 2007: Shows this month included a charity golf tournament in Phoenix, Arizona; an appearance in the San Francsico Bay Area at the California Magic Dinner Theater; Corpus Christi, Texas for a Convention; and Vegas, baby Vegas! Yes, that's right; Robert was the host and Master of Ceremonies for the "Little Legends" show on the Strip at the Planet Hollywood Hotel and Casino. Producers have asked Robert back for more dates in October. More info on the show is available at the box office (800) 851- 1703.

July 2007: For a series of TV commercials airing now in select states, the Red Diamond Coffee and Tea Company used Robert to be their Creative Consultant. He worked with the production company and advertising agency to make their spokesman look like he was doing real magic! Using no camera tricks, edits, or Computer Generated Images, Robert designed, had built, and taught the actor to do the tricks at a cost that was far less than the price of standard CGI special effects. Plus, Robert worked with the director to ensure his vision and supervised on set during the filming. P.S. That's the art director in the center picture below who doesn't look happy to have to reset a prop again! Click here to see the commercials.

June, 2007: The film "Even Money" opens in theaters nation wide. Robert worked with Danny DeVito and Kim Basinger on the set of this movie. Ray Liotta, Tim Roth, and Forest Whitaker, are the other stars of this gritty crime drama that has Danny DeVito playing a down on his luck con man, gambler, and magician who has Kim Basinger as his beautiful assistant. Robert gets an on screen technical credit for his extensive training sessions to teach Danny the moves and patter necessary for his character. The full length theatrical film is produced by Bob Yari Productions who also did the films "Sideways", "Crash", and "The Ilusionist". It is also the film Oscar winner Forest Whitaker did just before his academy award winning turn in "King Of Scotland". Entertainment Weekly magazine said the fim was "the sawdusty romanticism of old-time magicians".

May 2007: For a television show pilot, Robert was asked to perform one of his rarely seen feats: The street levitation. With camera crews on hand to record the event, Robert casually strolled through downtown Los Angeles and demonstrated this incredible illusion for the viewing audience. Click here to see the amazing video!

April 8th , 2007: The annual Beverly Hills Awards Gala held by the Academy of Magical Arts (the parent organization of "The Magic Castle") is the industry's equivalent of the Oscar ceremonies. This black tie event featured celebrity presenters including Steve Martin, Jason Alexander, Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, and dozens of other TV and film stars. Robert was on hand sitting next to his friend legendary comedian Carl Ballantine who was honored with a lifetime achievement award from the Academy. The event was held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel and taped for broadcast in Japan.

March, 2007: Robert is flown to England to share his comedy skills while being the host and Master of Ceremonies for the Gala Final Night Show of the 4th Annual International Performing Arts Festival in NewCastle, South Tyneside. The five day event featured variety artists from around the globe and led to offers for Robert to appear at similar festivals in Dublin and other parts of the U.K.

January, 2007: The famous "Rose Bowl Parade" down Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, California used Robert for a fifth year as parade commentator. The televised event had Robert at the far end of the parade route working for group sponsors who 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. Robert's position on the judging platform got him an intimate moment with Parade Grand Marshall George Lucas when Robert announced to the crowd how much he enjoyed George's underated 1986 film "Howard the Duck". Mr. Lucas appreciated Robert's comments and an invite to visit Industrial Light and Magic followed!

December, 2006: The season is upon us! And with it comes every company party and corporate event that wants Robert to entertain it's guests. Robert's shows this month include entertaining for law firms, doctors, film companies, car dealerships, Japanese groups, musicians, soccer players, country clubs, real estate firms, antique dealers, Fortune 500 financiers, and his appearance below on the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California where he met with a certain Mr. S. Claus; a world renowned toy manufacturer and supplier. Happy Holidays to all from Robert!

November, 2006: Working on new material and TV projects for Lambchop, the legendary puppet made famous by Shari Lewis with her daughter Mallory Lewis. Mallory is an Emmy award winning television producer and uses Robert's jokes and lines in her performances and to extend the Lambchop brand to a whole new generation!

November 3, 2006: With the opening of the newly restored and enlarged Griffith Observatory after a four-year renovation and expansion project, this beloved icon of the city of Los Angeles located high atop Mount Hollywood is reopened to the public to great fanfare. Robert is among the celebrities who get to see the expanded space, new planetarium show, and explore the exhibits during the opening week festivities. Robert is not only a favorite all over planet Earth, he uses their mighty Zeiss telescope to search space for new planets and civilizations he can entertain!

Halloween, 2006: Appearing as the "Madcap Master of the Macabre", Robert does his comedy material at a special event for real estate developers and their guests in Mahanttan Beach, California. With the tearing down of the famous old restauraunt there, "Good Stuff" to make way for a new shopping and condominimum development; the last act before the bull dozer and wrecking ball was a special creepy Halloween party where the gutted structure was turned into a haunted house for hundreds of revelers. Demolition began as the last of the partygoers left the structure in the wee hours of the morning to end the party with a bang and as a fitting farewell to the well loved site.

October 26, 2006: Robert takes a meeting on the Disney Studios lot in Burbank. This is not the theme park, but the site of the original studios where Walt Disney himself had his office for many years and planned his movies, tv shows, and theme parks. While there, Robert is invited to tour the facility and gets to pose with some of the statues that tourists don't normally get to see!

October 16 to 23, 2006: AGAIN WITH THE MAGIC CASTLE? HE WAS JUST THERE! Here's a funny story: A month ago while performing in the big room at the Magic Castle as the host and Master of Ceremonies for the show, a performer in one of the other rooms failed to show up in time for his scheduled performance. A frantic call went out for someone, anyone, available to do a show immediately! Robert volunteered but was told this crowd had already seen him work earlier. Robert replied that he had a totally different set of material that this crowd hadn't seen him do. The booker was amazed that Robert had so much material and put him to work in the Parlor with all due haste where he did a another great (and different!) show for the audience. So this week Robert was hired to work the Parlor. Who knew Robert was so funny AND had an impressive amount of jokes, comedy, stunts, and tricks he could do!?

October 15, 2006: Robert is among the celebrities invited to the annual "Day of the Child" event in Los Angeles sponsored by the United Nations. After braving the red carpet with other celebs like David Carradine, Coolio, DJ Spinderella, and Orlando Bloom, Robert gets to touch an elephant and then take a ride in a humvee with a young fan who wants to be in the military. The crowd of over a thousand foster children and their mentors spent the day riding rides, being entertained, and eating carnival food. (And Robert has now learned the hard way to be very careful of going on any rides with children who have eaten waaay too much cotton candy and hot dogs!)

October 1st, 2006: ABC-TV's "Good Morning America" comes to the 4th Annual Escape Artist's Convention in Ontario California where Robert performs for the 2nd year in a row at this three day national event, emceeing the public shows that included television star Criss Angel. Plus, Robert is on hand for both the "Good Morning America" and evening news reports on two other networks when the TV crews come to cover the Guiness Book of World Records challenge where 80 Escape Artists got out of straitjackets at the same time. Robert's brother warned him to be careful there. He said: "Don't get yourself into anything you can't get out of!" And while it becomes obvious that Robert is the funnier one of the Baxt siblings; Robert says he only does it for the beautiful female escape artist groupies!

September, 2006: Robert is flown to Atlanta to do comedy after the evening banquet and speeches are given at a corporate business conference. Sticking around an extra day, he sightsees and gets to visit the birthplace of two of Atlanta's most famous treasures known world wide: Coca-Cola and Ted Turner's CNN Network!

August, 2006: Robert returns with his patented brand of comedy to the famous exclusive private nightclub in the Hollywood Hills, "The Magic Castle"; where sometime during his week he will pass the 500 mark for number of times he has performed there! (Hey, they do almost 20 shows a week, and Robert has been working there for over a decade!)

July, 2006: The gated community of Turtle Ridge in the hills of Orange County, California couldn't have it's 4th of July celebration without Robert! While this photo was taken outside, Robert's performance to overflow crowds took place in air conditioned comfort in the luxurious theater in the sprawling community center of this planned community. Multiple shows with Robert are already planned for next years festivities to accomodate all those who couldn't get in to see his single show!

June, 2006: The launch of the all new Robert Baxt Website goes live! If you're reading this, then don't worry, you're looking at the new site as a complete overhaul and redesign has been done to www.robertbaxt.com to handle the increasing traffic. Graphic designers were brought on board to make the presentation and flow of information as visually pleasing as possible, photographers were hired to take new shots to update the photos posted, videos were added to the items in the "Shop", and the results are on your computer screen right now. More updates and stuff to come in future months, but it's ready for viewing now. Enjoy! (And I only ask that you please do not click the big red button on the "Don't Click" page under the "Stuff" menu).

May, 2006: Robert gets flown to Puerto Rico for a sales conference at the fabulous Westin Rio Del 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!

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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. Robert enjoyed the warmth!

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 and other artists including TV's Criss Angel. 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.

July, 2005: Universal Studios in Hollywood is the shooting location for the film "Le Petomane: Parti Avec Le Vent" a comedy short in which Robert is second billed on the Internet Movie Database at www.imdb.com/title/tt0462471/ Robert speaks French and English with a French accent in this historical comedy-drama where he is featured as one of the acts who appeared in French cabaret shows at the turn of the century with the infamous performer "Le Petomane". The film can be seen in numerous film festivals throughout the U.S. and Europe, and is up for Oscar nomination in the "Shorts" category. It was directed by Steve Ochs, the man Robert is seen threatening with a knife in the right photo below in order to get a part in his next film. :-)