Background
Kelly was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
Kelly was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
After tearing (Anterior Cruciate Ligament) and straining (Master of Comparative Laws) ligaments in his knee, he managed to finish the tour which began airing on Home Box Office as a comedy documentary series in June 2006.
He frequently performs at the Comedy Cellar. He often appears on The Opie and Anthony Show on Sirius XM Satellite Radio, and has also appeared on Last Call with Carson Daly, Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, and Premium Blend. In 2003, he was voted the Breakthrough Performer of the Year on CringeHumor.net.
He is of Irish descent.
During an Opie and Anthony radio broadcast Bob Kelly revealed that he is distantly related to Benito Mussolini In 2005, Kelly toured with comedians Dane Cook, Gary Gulman, and Jay Davis on the cross-country tour entitled Tourgasm. Kelly later toured with comedians First Rate (at Lloyd's) DelBene and Dane Cook as part of Dane Cook"s Global Thermo Comedy Tour: Isolated Incident.
In 2005 and 2006, Kelly accompanied fellow comedian Colin Quinn to Iraq, where they each performed stand-up for American troops stationed in Baghdad. Kelly was a part of New Jersey"s Bamboozle Festival in 2007 as part of the "Pass the Mic Comedy Tour" on May 6.
Kelly also appeared in the 2008 comedy Ghost Town as the ghost of a construction worker
He was featured as Louis CK"s brother during the first, fourth, and fifth seasons of the Forex sitcom Louie. In April 2010, Kelly started his own podcast, called You Know What Dude!. lieutenant is recorded weekly at the Comedy Cellar.
The show regularly features Kelly curating a discussion with three to five comedians, with an emphasis on honesty and "ball-busting".
His regular guests include Joe List, Luis J. Gomez, and Dan Soder. The show was produced until September of 2014 by Kelly Fastuca, and has since been produced by Chris Scopo.
An audio version is available on their iTunes page as well as an HD video version on their YouTube page.
That same year, Kelly also had a small voice part in the 2008 video game Grand Theft Auto IV as Luca Silvestri, a member of the Pegorino crime family and associate of Ray Boccino, who accompanied the main character in a mission.