Rob Bartlett

About Rob Bartlett

Robert Bartlett (born May 18, 1957 in Brooklyn, New York) is a comedian, actor and writer who gained wide-spread fame as a comedian on the radio and television show Imus in the Morning. His most famous characters include: Dr. Phil McGraw, Rush Limbaugh, Bill Clinton, Hulk Hogan and Brian Wilson (of the Beach Boys).

Not all of his characters consist of celebrity caricatures. One long-running recurring character is named Blind Mississippi White Boy Pig Feets Dupree, an old blues musician from Louisiana. "Feets" employs a harmonica to accompany his vocals on the "Imus" show. He often takes credit for writing songs or for having instituted, decades ago, innovations in American popular music that have been widely attributed in most music histories to African-American rhythm & blues, jazz and blues musicians. His apocryphal biography includes his part of the defunct blues band, "Dumbass Johnson and the Shortbus 5."

Rob writes all the material he performs on the Imus show, as well as the lyrics to all of the song parodies the show has become famous for over the years. The lyrics often comment on current news items or societal phenomena. For example, the Bartlett character "Rush Limbaugh" sometimes expresses his commentary in song. An example from the years of the Clinton Administration was the "Limbaugh" criticism of the alleged ultra-feminist or unfeminine tendencies of First Lady Hillary Clinton in "The First Lady is a Tramp", a parody of Frank Sinatra's version of "The Lady is a Tramp". Somewhat later came another example of a "Limbaugh" song, a holiday parody of the Burl Ives version of "A Holly Jolly Christmas". "A Robert Downey Christmas" was about seasonal and celebrity drug use and dysfunction.