Bio
With an appearances on Comedy Central’s Live at Gotham, NBC’s America’s Got Talent and on the Tonight Show as Jay Leno’s correspondent, 23 year-old Rob O’Reilly is quickly gaining a reputation as an up-and-coming comedian to watch in New York City.  It all began in Cleveland, Ohio, where Rob made his stand-up debut at a high school talent show and later won the city’s largest comedy competition.  While attending Boston University on an academic scholarship, he became a finalist in the 2005 Boston Comedy Festival and retired any notions of a “normal career.”  With his youthful point-of-view making him a favorite at three NACA conferences, Rob now headlines colleges across the country.  He booked 27 colleges out of NACA Northeast (2007) alone.  Residing in New York, he also enjoys playing in a comedian basketball league and performing sketch comedy with his group The Straightmen.

Credits

  • Stand-up performance on Comedy Central’s Live at Gotham (6/27/08)
  • Semi-finalist on NBC’s America’s Got Talent (7/29/08)
  • Correspondent twice on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1/19/07 and 3/16/07)
  • Correspondent on MTV’s TRL (3/17/08 and 4/14/08)
  • Appeared in Jimmy Kimmel Live skit (1/6/06)
  • Finalist (5th place) in Boston International Comedy and Movie Festival (2005)
  • Appeared on Last Comic Standing 2 on NBC (2004)
  • NACA Central, NACA Northeast, NACA Midatlantic and APCA Verona
  • Debut Album Strip Solitaire available on iTunes in Fall, 2008
  • Opened for Dane Cook in front of 2100 students at Boston University
  • Winner of Discovery Channel’s You Spoof competition for “Man V. NYC” (2007)
  • Plays a young John Lennon in the feature film Icons (currently filming)
  • Currently heard on XM Satellite Radio’s XM Comedy Channel (150)
  • 2nd place (out of 64) in Caroline’s March Madness competition (4/11/07)
  • 2nd place (out of 64) in Caroline’s March Madness 2  (4/1/08)
  • 1st place in Bassa Vita’s competition in Lakewood, OH. (7/19/04)
  • 1st place in Pittsburgh Funnybone’s New Voices in Comedy competition. (6/24/04)
  • 1st place in Boston University’s Stand-Up Comedy Competition (10/29/04).
  • Featured in the documentary Starting Stand-Up.
  • Has jokes published in Judy Brown’s books It’s A Man’s World: 800 Jokes from the Man’s (Warped) Perspective, Comedy Thesaurus, and Squeaky Clean Comedy: 1512 Dirt-Free Jokes from the Best Comedians.
  • Makes appearances on television’s Nitebeat with host Barry Nolan.

Rob O'Reilly