Bob Golub

Bob Golub (born September 6, 1957) is an American comedian, actor, writer, and filmmaker of Polish descent, whose work is largely inspired from his true-life childhood experiences of growing up in a dysfunctional home located in the steel-mill town of Farrell, Pennsylvania.

Career
Bob Golub began his career as a stand-up comedian in the 1980s, following a two-year prison term for cocaine dealing. He appeared in clubs in New York City, Pittsburgh, Miami, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. He has appeared in Goodfellas, Art School Confidential, The Glass Beads, Johnny Virus, The Kings of Brooklyn, and The Watermelon.

From 2003 to 2006, Golub toured with his one-man show, Dodo. The show derives its title from the nickname given to Golub's deceased father who, having lost an eye as a child, was unable obtain work and began a family roof-repair business for income. In the show, Dodo is portrayed as an angry and frustrated alcoholic, who routinely beat his wife and children. Golub has stated that this influenced his career, as he sought to become funny enough to make his father laugh in spite of his anger, thus deflecting violence.

Golub's self-written, self-directed independent feature docu-comedy Dodo is a mixture of taped live performance, professionally shot auto-biographical recreations of past events, and hundreds of hours of home video featuring himself and his family. The film version of Dodo was released in the year 2010, by Celebrity Video Distribution.