Austin's 12-12-09

Did one hour, 10 minutes at Austin's Coffee and Film in O-town. Headlined with Dirt McCoy (104.1, straight up funny and raw), Kyle Rogers (Funny-eclectic-musical), Sean Moore (Boston Breed Family Funny) and Clayton Anderson (Stanhope, Funny).
I did some material from "Koo Koo", crowd work, improv, and some new written bits and songs.
Was good to be on stage for that long again and keep the laughs coming, excluding trying to remember my rewritten Newhart bit. Honestly, I could have done without about 10 minutes of my set so, a bodacious hour "Dobbins style".
All comedians did a rad job!! Had a lot of fun!

my acting reel

Mike Dobbins Acting Reel

A Stand-Up Bit Clip!

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Mike Dobbins Billy Goats Dat Bonk!

9-2-09 Bonkerz!!

I Performed live at a Bonkerz in Altamonte Springs, FL last night. It was old school comedic performance art that was not well planned (sometimes it's that kind of night). I protested David Brenner's Merch application on his website by "nonsensing" to the sounds of "Bolero"(which I claimed David Brenner did not fancy) because I will never be able to go on Johnny Carson 150+ times like David Brenner did.

It was anti-70's/80's semantic joke structure to the max! I performed with num-chucks in a gorrilla mask, played recorder, and keyboard melodies in C minor, had a marionette puppet fart drum beats, called on a spirit of a relative's bedroom acoustics to come to altamonte springs to make my keyboard sound louder and closed it out with a reggae riff.

Guess what? the camera didn't record it, so that means it was only meant for the audience of that evening. I know people were moved (even if just their bowels).

Living Room 8-8-08

This was a pleasant night in the world. The doors were open to the cafe and the crowd was good in spirit and in size considering "cafe size" of the cafe. Everyone was funny. Abbi did straight stand-up and Luke did a commited character called "Shock Therapy". He could have been called any name or said anything because of the commitment of his facial expression.
My set was clean and chill with some improv at the top and in the middle. I have my set recorded and it may be the first one I extract a chunk from to put on YouTUBE.
The show was very enjoyable.

Piano's-"Scum & Villainy" 7-13

Cassidy Henahan hosted. The show was good besides a technical difficulty for a video, me getting stepped on twice by staff members messing with a ladder with no "excuse me", and the crowd bizarrely not clapping except for like 4 people it seemed as I walked to the stage. So that situation helped create a set long bit...The classic "enormous ego vs. lack of respect". It started a little slow and uncomfortable which was great and then lightened up once I said "watch your purses". Finished pretty strong. I think audience members actually find comedian ego rants to be interesting and slightly uncomfortably funny as long as they are somewhat safe which I feel mine was. However it came off, Big thanks to Cassidy, Melissa, and Piano's for the stage time.

Caroline's-"The Freak Show" 07-11

Line-up Maddog Mattern-Host, Matty Goldberg, Rick Shapiro, Eric Andre, Josh Filipowski, Me, Dustin Chaffin. Pretty Good Crowd-Responsive, wanted to play laughter ball.

Very enjoyable experience. I acted like my ex-wife was one of the people that was walkin' out as I was taking the stage and told the crowd about our sour marriage and now how bad things had gotten living with 8 roommates, became a texas pastor, then told 2 jokes.

Everybody had rad sets. It was a lot of fun. Poster out front for show certainly didn't hurt.