Artist description Musical Stand-up performed by two brothers.

Music Style comedy

Musical Influences Doug Anthony All Stars

Similar Artists I'm sure you can think up someone.

Artist History Performed together since 1993. Guy went off to form "Sweetcorn & Tuna" in 1995. The Roberts Boys helped start the Christchurch comedy scene as one of the founding members of "Four Finger's missing". Guy and Jonno have also worked with the controversial extremist sketch group "In the Soup". First solo show was in the 1998 International Laugh! Festival in New Zealand. Currently The Roberts Boys are split as Jonno is at Harvard doing his Masters in Drama, and Guy is retired as he is too lazy to do solo sets.... However, the memory of their nude performances lives on in the corrupted minds of many.

Group Members Guy and Jonno Roberts, with extra material from Steve Church and Mark Hutchings.

Instruments vocals and guitar

Albums The Roberts Boys Perform For Love, Not Money (please realise that the mp3's on this page are not brilliant copy because of the low grade quality of the recording, which was due to a chewed up audio tape)

Press Reviews At the 1998 International Laugh! Festival the Roberts Boys were declared "The sexiest comedy duo in New Zealand" by the Australian Penthouse 'Pet Of The Year for 1997'.The biggest laughs of the night came from Auckland brothers Guy and Jonno who specialise in bastardising well known songs. Gloriously politically incorrect, the act worked because it was so unashamedly offensive."-The Christchurch Press, Monday September 8, 1997.“From the moment when Guy and Jonno – the Roberts Boys – introduce their opening number with “after hearing this song, Pam Corkery called us the most disgusting comedians she’d ever see,” you know you’re in for a parade of politically incorrect delights guaranteed to offend virtually anyone ever born. For Love, Not Money (“because there’s not much much money in stand-up,” according to Jonno) is a fast moving smorgasbord of sketches and bastardisations of famous songs, which put a new and hitherto unexplored spin on everything from the recent TV newsreading staff changes to drug dispensaries, unbalanced hackysack players and well-known cartoon animals’ visits to the vet – their butchery of “Snoopy’s Chrsitmas” drew the evening’s loudest laugh.The Roberts Boys willingly state that they see one of stand-up comedy’s functions as being to push boundaries, and then proceed to do exactly that with a song about the world’s first wheelchair-bound serial killer, while Guy rattles his body parts between sketches.In the end it was because the material was so unashamedly non-PC that it scored hugely with the audience, who were left slightly disturbed but massively amused.” – The City Voice, Thursday May 6, 1999.

Location Auckland, - - New Zealand

Copyright notice. All material on MP3.com is protected by copyright law and by international treaties. You may download this material and make reasonable number of copies of this material only for your own personal use. You may not otherwise reproduce, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, or create derivative works of this material, unless authorized by the appropriate copyright owner(s).