Thursday, October 9, 1986
Page 10
Daily Nebraskan
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Round the
Bend with
Rob Noxious
By Craig Anton
It was the worst of interviews, it was
the worst of interviews, it was the Rob
Noxious interview.
In a nutshell, Rob Noxious is a loud,
insincere master of sincerity, a comic
who leaves his audiences in noseb
leeds, and the self-proclaimed king of
Nebraska.
"Comedy is my wife," says Noxious,
an eight-year veteran of stand-up come
dy. Working part time as a blood donor
scanner, Rob Noxious generally tours
the Midwest harassing crowds, women
on golf courses and small children. t
Noxious will be the feature act tonight
and Sunday evening at Rocky Rococo's
Comedy Corner.
DN: Do vou have any albums out?
Noxious: Yeah, Foreigner's Cold as
Ice, and Cheap Trick's Live at Budikahn.
DN: Who have you worked with?
Noxious: I've gigged with Howie
Mandel, Gallager and Kitty Wells . . .
opened for "Dance Fever," I did the
warm-up for Playboy's "Girls of the Ivy
League" it's a video special coming
up later this year on cable. Yeah, I've
done it all.
DN: What's your current plan of
action?
Noxious: Well, I'm currently writing
and performing with an improvisational
company based out of New York called
42nd City. However, the shows are usu-
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McFortunes for McDonald's, you know,
all the bad ones like, "Your parents are
secretly selling crack to the CIA." I've
been seen in the movies: "Boystown"
with Art Carney and also "Beach Girls"
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DN: Where did you get your start?
Noxious: I began as a child extra on
"Nanny and the Professor."
DN: Where have you been and where
are you going?
Noxious: I'm waiting for a nuclear
winter right now because I've invested
most of my money in ski rental equip
ment, I plan to make a bundle.
DN: I've heard that you're the man
who discovered Bonnie Franklin. Is this
true?
Noxious: That's right, and I just saw
her last weekend with Jamelle Holli
way at a Prince concert. I was a little
disappointed; the man has no sense of
rhythm.
DN: Are you registered to vote?
Noxious: Are you serious? I am a
little concerned with Reagan's new
crackdown on drugsthough. Think
about it, Reagan wants the death penalty
for all dealers, and that includes antique
dealers, automobile dealers, and in Las
Vegas they'd have a blood bath with all
of the card dealers.
DN: Latest rumor that you've heard?
Noxious: Well I know for a fact that
Idi Amin is alive and working as the
night cook at Denny's on Ninth Street.
DN: Where do you see yourself five
years from now?
Noxious: I will attain the papacy or
super stardom within the next three
years. But in five, well I see myself lufa
diving off the coast of Bimini with sev
eral scantily dressed babes.
DN: What are your big tum-ons?
Noxious: Hot new Bananarama videos
and Zamfir, king of the pan flute com
ing over for dinner on Friday. I think us
kings should stick together.
DN: Can you recommend a good
book?
Noxious: "Curious George" and "The
Man With the Big Yellow Pants."
DN: Are you a health nut?
Noxious: Hell no. I do smoke plain
label cigarettes, though. Yeah, they're
very in now. If you smoke plain label
cigarettes the chances are good that
you'll get plain-label cancer, and that's
much cheaper to treat.
DN: What's hip for the '80s?
Noxious: The drink of the '80s is a
Robitussin and 7 in a tall glass.
DN: What are you going to be for
Halloween?
Noxious: I'm not sure yet, but I did
go through a haunted trailer at the
Sapp Brothers truck stop. It was wild
the ghost of Boxcar Willie chased
me around for about an hour.
Rob Noxious, a legend in his own
mind. Just a stand-up comic with a few
gripes, a few opinions and a few thermometers.
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