Bob Nelson (comedian)

Bob Nelson
Born	March 3, 1958 Massapequa, Long Island, USA

Bob Nelson (born March 3, 1958), is an American stand-up comedian and actor.

Nelson began doing stand-up in comedy clubs while a theater student at Nassau Community College in the late 1970s.

Nelson specializes in rubber-faced comedy characters, much as Red Skelton did in his heyday. His most popular originals include Jiffy Jeff, a punch drunk prizefighter with a Gym in NYC; Eppy Epperman, a brilliant but nerdy kid with deeper insights than meet the eye; an entire football team of stereotypical characters and unnamed football stars doing a charity commercial; Wilby Stuckerson, a hillbilly chicken farmer based on a life experience of Nelson's from Shreveport, Louisiana, and Mr. Pingyeh, an argumentative Asian man who is more eloquent than the people with whom he argues. He is also known for his Jacques-Yves Cousteau impersonations and his "football act" in which he parodies the old team rundowns in the College Football All-Star games, in which players announce their names, numbers and teams (example: "Quasimodo... Notre Dame... halfback!")

Bob Nelson was Rodney Dangerfield's opening act for eight years of Mr. Dangerfield's career. Bob was featured in two of Rodney's HBO stand-up comedy showcases, alongside Jerry Seinfeld, Roseanne Barr, Rita Rudner and Bob Saget. That led to two HBO specials starring Bob Nelson, including "Nelson Schmelson". Bob considers Rodney his 'Comedy Godfather'. Nelson was also in a comedy group called "The Identical Triplets" with Eddie Murphy and Rob Bartlett.

Nelson has appeared several times on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and various other talk shows, such as David Letterman, Regis Philbin, and Merv Griffin as well as being scheduled to appear on tour with Gallagher for the upcoming 2016-17 season.

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