Mikey Robins
A veteran broadcaster who treats standup like an exasperated armchair historian.
1 special · 2002
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Robins stands at the microphone with the casual posture of someone who spent decades talking for a living. He doesn’t pace or try to manufacture tension in the room. Instead, he leans on the stand and delivers long, winding setups that feel like a conversation at a pub. He uses his voice like a broadcaster, dropping his register to signal the turn of a story or pausing just long enough to let a weird fact sit in the air.
Specials
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The World Comedy Tour: Melbourne 2002 with Dom Irrera, Al Murray & 13 more
An international lineup of working comics performing tight festival sets.
65 min
On stage
In Australia, he is an institution, playing arts centers and theaters to crowds who already view him as a familiar companion. He operates as an armchair historian who transitioned into live comedy, pulling audiences who grew up with him on their televisions and car stereos.
His material bypasses standard observational comedy to focus on human incompetence through the centuries. He will build an entire routine around the bad decisions of a nineteenth-century explorer or the strange habits of a monarch, delivering the details with cheerful exasperation. When he shifts to personal material, he relies on suburban nostalgia, detailing bad childhood holidays in Newcastle. The transition from historical trivia to local stereotypes can be loose, and he often lets his natural charm carry a familiar observation.
Before performing live comedy, Robins spent seven years hosting the national breakfast radio show on Triple J and served as a longtime team captain on the television panel show Good News Week.
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