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Bob Golub
Bob Golub has realized the quintessential American dream. A poor kid from a family of ten, Golub left a one-movie-theater Pennsylvania steel mill town and through sheer fortitude and drive became a headlining comedian and movie actor.
Bob appeared in the film, "Goodfellas." It wasn't a sure thing. "I didn't know any better," Golub says of his first interview with the casting director. "I went in there dressed as Jimmy the Gent with 2,000 cash and a gun. Really scared the hell out of 'em!" Golub was cast as a tough truck driver in the dinner scene. He spent six months doing character research, leading him to mistakenly visiting John Gotti's lair, nearly getting himself shot. The Jimmy the Gent role went to another actor by the name of De Niro.
The activities of Golub's entertainment career have been closely followed by the press. The New York Post's Cindy Adams captured the essence of what makes Bob tick in her September 1998 column: "I'm a street kid. I grow up tough. Everything I wanted, I got myself."
Golub is working on a book called "The Big House to The White House," which will account how Bob went from being in prison in the late 70's to the White House in ten years. Bob also developed and produced the first stand-up comedy fundraising event for the deaf. Every year the event raises over a million dollars for the League for the Hard of Hearing in New York. He was given the Volunteer of the Year award in 1996.
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