{"id":210,"date":"2015-11-26T19:05:28","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T19:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paravonian.com\/EPK\/?page_id=210"},"modified":"2015-11-27T17:17:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T17:17:58","slug":"affable-and-intelligent-comedy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/paravonian.com\/EPK\/?page_id=210","title":{"rendered":"Affable and Intelligent Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Midwestern nice meets big city confidence\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Rob was born and raised in Waukegan, Illinois, an industrial, working class city north of Chicago that is\u00a0home to another musically-inclined comedian: the legendary <a title=\"Jacke Benny on wikipedia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jack_Benny\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Benny<\/a>. With the help of an academic scholarship Rob went to the University of Southern California and earned a writing degree, then returned to Chicago to study improv and sketch comedy at the Second City Training Center. The Midwestern roots, smarts, and comedic instincts have laid the foundation for an innovative and successful comedy career.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about Rob\u2019s background, check out his <a title=\"Rob\u2019s bio page\" href=\"http:\/\/paravonian.com\/EPK\/?page_id=11\">bio page<\/a>. To see Rob in action in his hometown, check out the clip below, recorded live at Rob\u2019s 2015 headlining show at the <a title=\"Genesee Theatre website\" href=\"http:\/\/geneseetheatre.com\" target=\"_blank\">Genesee Theatre<\/a> in downtown Waukegan, IL.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YAuuw_ELX4k\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Midwestern nice meets big city confidence\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-210","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"kubio_ai_page_context":{"short_desc":"","purpose":"general"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/paravonian.com\/EPK\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/210"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/paravonian.com\/EPK\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/paravonian.com\/EPK\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paravonian.com\/EPK\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paravonian.com\/EPK\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/paravonian.com\/EPK\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"http:\/\/paravonian.com\/EPK\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/210\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paravonian.com\/EPK\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/paravonian.com\/EPK\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}