Bobbie Oliver
Los Angeles, California, United States
Music
Press
"Bobbie Oliver is a consummate professional with the ability to adapt her performance and material to any audience or situation. Disproving the notion that those who can't do, teach, she has proven, time and again, that she is both a great teacher and one of the best comics working today."
Steven Friedlander
Executive Vice President: Distribution CBS Films
"Bobbie is a very gifted comedienne with a heart. Her show for our cancer patients won't be forgotten anytime soon. When she took the stage, we knew we were in for something special and fun. She is a professional who can deliver the comedy goods, anytime, anywhere."
Dr. David D. Smith
City of Hope National Medical Center
"Wry wit, Southern bubbly charm, an eye for details and human foibles… put it all together and what do you have? An outstanding stand-up comedienne, named Bobbie Oliver, that’s who!"
Marianne Ruth,
Foreign Press Association
Correspondent for Le Figaro, France, and Stardust, Sweden
”Bobbie was a great speaker/comedian at the Pasadena City College retreat. The staff loved her and can't wait to have her return. She had everyone hunched over in their seats with laughter. Bobbie proved that she is just as hilarious at a school retreat speaking to a variety of school employees as she is on stage in a comedy club.”
~ Cha Mancini
Chair, Classified Staff Development
Pasadena City College
“Bobbie Oliver’s comedy is smart, irreverent and unrelentingly funny. This is as good as modern stand-up comedy gets!”
Psychedelicatessen.blogspot.com
"Bobbie Oliver performed stand-up comedy at a recent Million Laughs Comedy Show as the headliner. The audience consisted of approximately 40 men and women recovering from substance abuse at a rehabilitation facility in the Los Angeles area. To say she was a crowd-pleaser would be an understatement - when she finished her set, the crowd called her back to the stage demanding more!"
Will Morton, Million Laughs
- Various Happy Clients
"Bobbie's style of comedy is wide-ranged and versatile, and never resorts to vulgarity. Apart from working diligently in the field, she's also a passionate teacher who has created confidence in many timid souls and groomed talents in many doubtful individuals. To me, she will always be THE TEACHER."
Felix Guo
Host of KAZN/KAHZ's morning-drive show "Today's Topic," the award-winning Chinese language radio show.
- KAZN Radio
"Bobbie Oliver is a cool combination of Southern, edgy, and emotionally raw; she is the Janis Joplin of Comedy!"
Bran Peacock
LaGrange College Hilltop News
“Bobbie Oliver delivers! I would book her again in a heartbeat”.
Jon Grant
Loyola Marymount
“Bobbie Oliver had them rolling in the aisles!”
Covington News
- College Reviews
Discography
Colleges*
University of Southern California
University of Georgia
University of South Carolina
Clemson University
Loyola Marymount
Georgia Tech
Georgia State University
University of LaVerne
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena City College
Television/Radio*
Comedy TV - Entertainers With Byron Allen
TNN – Be a Star
The Style Network – Ruby
NPR Feature Story
L.A. Talk Radio
The Dork Forest Podcast
Comedy Clubs*
The Riviera Hotel & Casino
Comedy Store
The Ice House
The Improv
Jon Lovitz Comedy Club
Flappers Comedy Club
The Punchline
Hillarities
Sidesplitters
Huntsville Comedy Club
Funny Farm
Zanies
The Laughing Skull
Contests/Festivals*
Named “Best of the Fest” at the Hollywood Ha Ha Festival
Winner, L.A. Soup-or-Bowl of Comedy
Corporate/Special Events*
NASA/Jet Propulsion Lab
Congressional Fundraiser: Adam Schiff
Chrysler Corporation
Midas
Atlanta Hawks Association
City of Hope
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
Comic Relief
*Extensive List Available on Request
*Writing Samples Available on Request
Photos
Bio
Bobbie Oliver is one of America’s funniest comics, but she had to come a long way to get here. Born Barbara “Bobbie” Evans in Covington, GA, the city where The Dukes of Hazzard was filmed, she grew up dirt poor in the Dirty South. The economy was depressed and so were the people. Bobbie found escape in staying up late with her father to watch The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Carson and the comedians who performed on his show, including Roseanne, Brett Butler, Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Lily Tomlin and Garry Shandling, became an inspiration to her.
Studying theatre in high school, Bobbie discovered that she had a gift for comedy and went on to receive a BA in theatre from LaGrange College, where she founded a standup comedy group with her future husband Chris Oliver. After graduating Bobbie and Chris moved to the cultural hub of Athens, GA. From that base, Bobbie began working the grueling comedy circuit of the East Coast. Comedy clubs, colleges, one-nighters, military bases, corporate gigs, frat parties…you name it, Bobbie did it, for seven years. This experience, the comedy school of hard knocks, has provided her with a rock-solid foundation that cannot be acquired through any other means.
In 1998, tired of the road, Bobbie and Chris made the move to Los Angeles, where she founded the renowned comedy school StandUp Academy at The Ice House Comedy Club. Ready to make a new start, Bobbie completely scrapped over an hour of material and started fresh. Bobbie has appeared on TNN, The Style Network, Entertainers with Byron Allen, at The Riviera in Las Vegas, The Ice House Comedy Club, Flappers, The Improv, The Jon Lovitz Comedy Club, The Comedy Store and many clubs, colleges and corporate events, including NASA, USC and congressional fundraisers. She has won many comedy contests, including the Hollywood Ha-Ha Festival and the L.A. Soup-or-Bowl of Comedy, and was featured on the cover of Pasadena Weekly. Bobbie is the author of The Tao of Comedy: Embrace the Pause, to be published in 2012. Bobbie Oliver is smarter, sexier and funnier than ever, and her Southern charm wins over audiences wherever she performs.
Links
