Famous for his Pachelbel Rant, which garnered well over five million views on YouTube, Paravonian will be traveling throughout the East Coast and Midwest over the next few months. Musical since his childhood, when he learned to play the cello in grade school, he didn't start bringing his guitar on stage till he was already established as a stand-up comedian. The boredom of waiting for his sets at comedy clubs led him to bring his guitar with him to entertain the other comics waiting in the wings. Since then it has become his major comic tool.

In addition to college campuses and beer joints, Paravonian did the Edinburgh Fringe in 2008 and even traveled to Afghanistan to entertain the troops back in 2005. It was the furthest he's ever traveled for a gig, and he described it as "...a great experience."

He has opened for Roberta Flack, Danny Bonaduce, Gilbert Gottfried and even Meatloaf.

From Rob's MySpace page:

I played the cello for 12 years. I've been in rock bands. I'm a comedian. I will beat you at Ms. Pac Man. I will never shake my Midwestern roots. Lots of people know me from my Pachelbel Rant that's been making the rounds on the internet lately. Aside from minor internet accliam [sic] I make my living tooling about the country performing at colleges and comedy clubs.

So who inspires Rob? Well, he toured last year with the late George Carlin, and says that having worked the legend was the biggest thrill of his career. When Carlin died this past summer, Rob paid tribute to him on a friend's blog.

Carlin at 71 was, above all, a comic, and that's what impressed me the most. With the amount of success, visibility, and recognition he had earned, he could easily have set up shop in Vegas and made a fine living doing concerts of his greatest hits. Instead, he chose to work on all new material, fine-tuning it to the point where it's not only funny but also says something.

Carlin's death meant that Paravonian's work schedule was all up in the air, but for him that meant back to the comedy clubs and campuses he has made his name at over the years.

Other influences were Johnny Carson, Jack Benny and The Simpsons. He considers Kyle Broflofsky from South Park as one of his comic "heroes." Paravonian studied comedy in Chicago at the famed Second City Training Center and became one of their improve regulars.

In addition to his comedy website, he also has a blog, or web log, to provide more timely updates to his friends and fans.

Rob Paravonian has three live comedy CDs - Live on Both Coasts, Official Bootleg and Playing for Drunks; three studio CDs - Living it Down, American Cheese and Don't Crowd the Plow; as well as two DVDs - 40 Minutes From Chicago and Rob P. Live.

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