Rob Huebel
{{Short description|American actor and comedian}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Rob Huebel
| image = Rob Huebel CCI2012.JPG
| caption = Huebel in July 2012
| birth_name = Robert Anderson Huebel
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1969|6|4}}
| birth_place = Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.
| occupation = {{Hlist|Comedian|actor}}
| yearsactive = 1998–present
| spouse = Holly Hannula
| children = 1
| education = Clemson University (BA)
| website = {{URL|http://www.robhuebel.com}}
}}
Robert Anderson Huebel{{cite web|url=http://www.clemson.edu/clemsonworld/profiles/07summer/hueble.html|title=Clemson World Magazine|access-date=7 July 2015|archive-date=31 October 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071031093726/http://www.clemson.edu/clemsonworld/profiles/07summer/hueble.html|url-status=live}} (born June 4, 1969) is an American comedian and actor. He is best known for his sketch comedy work on the MTV series Human Giant and for his role of Dr. Owen Maestro on the Adult Swim series Childrens Hospital. He also appeared as Russell on the FX/FXX series The League and as Len Novak on the Amazon Prime Video series Transparent. In December 2022, Entertainment Weekly called Huebel "the premier d-bag character actor of his generation".{{Cite web |title=The best TV episodes of 2022 |url=https://ew.com/tv/best-tv-episodes-of-2022/ |access-date=2023-01-20 |website=EW.com |language=en |archive-date=2022-12-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221209203206/https://ew.com/tv/best-tv-episodes-of-2022/ |url-status=live }}
Early life
Huebel was born in Alexandria, Virginia, the son of Louisa and Jared Huebel.{{cite web|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CS&s_site=thestate&p_multi=CS&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=1184809001BA46A8&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=State: Search Results|website=nl.newsbank.com|access-date=7 July 2015|archive-date=8 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150708105307/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CS&s_site=thestate&p_multi=CS&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=1184809001BA46A8&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|url-status=dead}} He attended Annandale High School in Annandale, Virginia, before attending Clemson University, where he studied marketing in hopes of working in advertising.{{cite web
| url = http://www.improvinterviews.com/2006/11/rob-huebel-52306-part-1.html
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070523074833/http://www.improvinterviews.com/2006/11/rob-huebel-52306-part-1.html
| archive-date= 23 May 2007
| url-status = dead
| title = Rob Huebel 5/23/06 Part 1
| work = Improv Interviews
| date = 15 November 2006
| access-date = 16 June 2016
}} He later moved to New York and began studying improv comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater.{{cite web|url=http://losangeles.ucbtheatre.com/performers/900|title=Rob Huebel's Upright Citizens Brigade Theater Profile|access-date=6 October 2018|archive-date=10 April 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080410002109/http://losangeles.ucbtheatre.com/performers/900|url-status=dead}}
Career
{{BLP sources|date=September 2017}}
Huebel first began improvising when he was 27 by taking classes at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City.
His early work was as a sketch actor on shows such as Late Night with Conan O'Brien and Upright Citizens Brigade. He was nominated for an Emmy award for his work as a producer for Michael Moore's Bravo series The Awful Truth. He worked as a segment producer on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.{{citation needed|date=November 2017}}
Huebel was a panelist on the VH1 series Best Week Ever, part of the NetZero "Candidate Zero" campaign during the 2004 election. He also appeared on the HBO television series Curb Your Enthusiasm and Fox's Arrested Development.
The comedy partner of Rob Riggle (the two even auditioned for Saturday Night Live during its 30th season [2004-2005], but only Rob Riggle was picked and stayed on the show for a year), the duo have worked with the improvisational comedy troupe Respecto Montalban and at the Upright Citizens Brigade. Huebel and Riggle performed a comedy bit in the documentary Super High Me. Among their best known work at UCB was their long-running two-man show Kung-Fu Grip, which was eventually showcased at the 2004 HBO Comedy Arts Festival. Huebel was in the movie Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story, as Sam Brown with Corddry, Scheer, and Riggle.{{citation needed|date=November 2017}}
Huebel and fellow comedians Aziz Ansari and Paul Scheer are writers, actors, and executive producers in the MTV sketch comedy show Human Giant. Some of Huebel's characters from the show include Samir from "The Shutterbugs" and T.C. Everwood from "Clell Tickle". He guest starred in the 30 Rock episode "MILF Island", and also as Holly's boyfriend A.J. in three episodes of The Office. He played the role of Tevin in the 2009 comedy I Love You, Man. He also co-starred with Rob Corddry in Childrens Hospital.
Huebel continues to regularly perform at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles. He co-hosts the live sketch show "Crash Test" with Paul Scheer twice a month, as well as hosting "The Shit Show", in which he gathers comedian friends and other well-known performers to present the worst scenes in films, television and commercials that they have ever done.{{citation needed|date=November 2017}}
Huebel has written and starred in various filmed sketches for the HBO sketch comedy program Funny or Die Presents. In November 2010, he performed stand-up on The Benson Interruption on Comedy Central.
Huebel appeared in the films The Other Guys (2010), Life as We Know It, Little Fockers, Despicable Me, and The Descendants. In February 2011, he was cast as a lead in the Fox sitcom pilot Family Album and in May he guest starred on ABC's sitcom Modern Family as Glen Whipple in the episode "The One That Got Away". He also appeared in a recurring role on Amazon Studios's Transparent, playing Len Novak.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/arts/television/rob-huebel-transparent.html|title=Rob Huebel: The First Time I Filmed a Threeway for TV|newspaper=The New York Times|date=10 October 2017|last1=Huebel|first1=Rob|archive-date=22 September 2019|access-date=24 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190922233144/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/arts/television/rob-huebel-transparent.html|url-status=live}}
Huebel appears frequently on the comedy podcast Comedy Bang! Bang!{{cite web|url=http://www.earwolf.com/person/rob-huebel|title=Rob Huebel on Earwolf|access-date=7 July 2015|archive-date=11 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190511165023/http://www.earwolf.com/person/rob-huebel|url-status=live}} along with starring in his own podcast series on the Earwolf network, Mike Detective.{{cite web|url=http://www.earwolf.com/show/mike-detective|title=Mike Detective|access-date=7 July 2015|archive-date=14 January 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110114004924/http://www.earwolf.com/show/mike-detective|url-status=dead}} He later appeared in Horrible Bosses 2 (2014) and Barely Lethal (2015).
Huebel has starred as "Inconsiderate Cell-Phone Man" in several PSAs of this title, which are shown in movie theaters to discourage patrons from making calls during the picture.{{Citation needed|date=May 2019}}
Personal life
Huebel is married to Holly Hannula. Their daughter, Holden, was born in 2016.{{Cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/BM7MubQgzvu/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/instagram/robhuebel/1385757277268687854 |archive-date=2021-12-23 |url-access=subscription|title=Instagram post by Rob Huebel • Nov 17, 2016 at 8:39pm UTC|website=Instagram|language=en|access-date=2017-02-25}}{{cbignore}} She was born premature at 26 weeks and spent the first 117 days of her life in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.{{Cite web|url=https://longestshortesttime.com/episode-118-all-the-feels-with-rob-huebel/|title=The Longest Shortest Time "All the Feels with Rob Huebel" epp. #118|access-date=2022-01-20|archive-date=2025-05-02|archive-url=https://archive.today/20250502133122/https://longestshortesttime.com/episode-118-all-the-feels-with-rob-huebel/|url-status=live}}
Filmography
=Film=
| class = "wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 2002
| Corporate Criminal | Uncredited |
| rowspan="2"| 2004
|Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story | Sam Brown | |
| Terrorists
| Town Council Member | |
| rowspan="2"| 2007
| Excited Man on TV | |
| 7-10 Split
| Jerry Lowry | |
| 2008
|{{sortname|The|Love Guru}} | Frat Guy | |
| 2009
| Tevin Downey | |
| rowspan="5"| 2010
| Anchorman |Voice |
| {{sortname|The|Other Guys}}
| Officer Watts | |
| Life as We Know It
| Ted | |
| Orientation Day
| Announcer | Voice, short film |
| Little Fockers
| Sleazy Doctor | |
| rowspan="3"| 2011
| Rex Newbauer | |
| Natural Selection
| Martin | |
| {{sortname|The|Descendants}}
| Mark Mitchell | |
| rowspan="4"| 2012
| Business Man | |
| What to Expect When You're Expecting
| Gabe | |
| Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
| Jeremy | |
| It's Not You It's Me
| Detective Archer | Short film |
| 2013
| Mickey | |
| rowspan="2"| 2013
| Phil | |
| Rapture-Palooza
| Morgan | |
| rowspan="3"| 2014
| Pete | |
| Horrible Bosses 2
| Pinkberry Executive | |
| {{sortname|A|Better You|nolink=1}}
| Coach | |
| rowspan="2"| 2015
| Mr. Marcus | |
| Night Owls
| Peter | |
| rowspan="4"| 2016
|Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal: The Movie | Le Club Boss | |
| Miss Stevens
| Walter | |
| Keanu
| Spencer | |
| Cuddle Party
| Drew | Short film |
| rowspan="5"| 2017
| Andrew | |
| How to Be a Latin Lover
| Nick | |
| Baywatch
| Captain Thorpe | |
| Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town
| Bennett | |
| {{sortname|The|House|dab=2017 film}}
| Officer Chandler | |
| 2019
| International Falls | Tim | |
| rowspan="3"| 2020
| Steve Richman | |
| Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics
| Himself | |
| Spontaneous
| Charlie Carlyle | |
| 2021
| Joe | |
| rowspan="2"| 2022
|Dizzy Dog Carnie |Voice |
| Snow Day
|Tom Brandston | |
| 2023
| Producer | |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1998–1999
| Various characters | 3 episodes |
| 2000
|{{sortname|The|Awful Truth|dab=TV series}} | | Producer; 12 episodes |
| 2000–2001
|{{sortname|The|Daily Show}} | | Field producer; 4 episodes |
| 2004
| Various characters | 22 episodes |
| 2005
| Dave Williams | Episode: "Righteous Brothers" |
| 2005
|{{sortname|The|Showbiz Show with David Spade}} | Correspondent | |
| 2005
| Dr. Mark | 2 episodes |
| 2007
| Morgan | 2 episodes |
| 2007–2008
| Rob / Various characters | 20 episodes; also creator, writer, and executive producer |
| 2008
| MILF Island Host | Episode: "MILF Island" |
| 2008–2016
| Dr. Owen Maestro | 79 episodes; also writer |
| 2009
| HMO Advisor #1 / Resort Salesman #2 / Financial Advisor #1 | 3 episodes |
| 2009
|Michael & Michael Have Issues | Jeff | Episode: "Frogbox" |
| 2009
| Howard Needleman | 3 episodes |
| 2009–2010
|{{sortname|The|Office|dab=American TV series}} | A.J. | 3 episodes |
| 2009–2015
|{{sortname|The|League}} | Russell / Dr. Deramo | 10 episodes |
| 2009–2019
| Various voices | 5 episodes |
| 2010
| Todd | Episode: "Barb's Husband" |
| 2010
| Mr. Dauntless | Episode: "Not on Your Wife Opening Night" |
| 2010
| Bill | Episode: "Powdered Doughnuts Make Me Go Nuts" |
| 2010
| | Writer and segment producer |
| 2010
| Brock | Episode: "Action Movie Pun Brainstorm" |
| 2010–2011
| Various characters | 13 episodes; also writer and executive producer |
| 2011
| Kev | 4 episodes |
| 2011
| Alan Fitzgerald | Episode: "You've Got Male" |
| 2011
| Glen Whipple | Episode: "The One That Got Away" |
| 2012
| {{sortname|The|Life & Times of Tim}} | Matt | Voice, episode: "The Smug Chiropractor/Corporate Disaster" |
| 2012
| Wade Flanagan | Episode: "The Magician's Code" |
| 2012
| Jerry | 2 episodes |
| 2012
| Dragon Shumway | 2 episodes; also writer |
| 2012
| Co-host | Television special |
| 2012
| Blue Falcon | Episode: "#2.9" |
| 2012–2022
| Various characters | Voice, 12 episodes |
| 2013
| Simon | 20 episodes |
| 2013
| Suicidal Rockstar | Episode: "Ice Dating" |
| 2013
| Michael Burgess | Episode: "I'm Moving On" |
| 2013
| Peter Crane | Episode: "Three Men and a Boubier" |
| 2013
| {{sortname|The|ArScheerio Paul Show|nolink=1}} | Ultimate Warrior | Episode: "Ultimate Warrior" |
| 2013–2015
| Gray Diamond | Voice, 16 episodes |
| 2013–2015
| Dave Grigsby / Larry Jetski | 2 episodes |
| 2013–2015
| Juan Francisco Treviño / Pat Garrett | 2 episodes |
| 2014
| Episode: "The Magical Place" |
| 2014
| Harvey Spielyorm | Episode: "Galentine's Day" |
| 2014
| Boomer | Voice, episode: "The Fadeaway" |
| 2014
|{{sortname|The|Mindy Project}} | Andrew | 2 episodes |
| 2014
| Rob Huebel | Episode: "Motorboating Dads; the Negative $100,000 Question" |
| 2014–2015
|Wes | 3 episodes |
| 2014–2019
| Len Novak | 28 episodes |
| 2014–2022
|{{sortname|The|Goldbergs|dab=2013 TV series}} |John Calabasas | 11 episodes |
| 2015
|Patrick (Crash) McCaren |Voice, episode: "The Archer Sanction" |
| 2015
|Last Week Tonight with John Oliver |Dad |Episode: "The Internet" |
| 2015
|Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp |Brodfard Gilroy |Episode: "Auditions" |
| 2015
|Crash Test: With Rob Huebel and Paul Scheer |Rob |TV movie; also writer and executive producer |
| 2015
|{{sortname|The|Hotwives of Las Vegas|The Hotwives}} |Gynecologist |Episode: "Vaca-Shunned" |
| 2015
|Jacob |Episode: "Triggers" |
| 2016
|Rick |Episode: "Year of the Rat" |
| 2016
|Sam |Episode: "The Nuttin' Professor" |
| 2016
|Business Meeting Leader |Voice, episode: "Road to India" |
| 2016
|Dr. Rudy Kamper |2 episodes |
| 2017
|Drive Share |Various characters |6 episodes; also creator, writer, director, and executive producer |
| 2017
|Blake Stone |Episode: "Poniu I Ke Aloha" |
| 2017
|Sperber Pennington |Episode: "This Sounds Unbelievable, but CSI: Miami Did It" |
| 2017
|Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later |Brodfard Gilroy |2 episodes |
| 2017
|{{sortname|The|Chris Gethard Show}} |Phone Sex Chewbacca |Episode: "Technology Will Destroy Us All" |
| 2017–2019
| Mr. Lizer | Voice, 6 episodes |
| 2017
| Do You Want to See a Dead Body? | Himself | 15 episodes; also creator, writer, and executive producer |
| 2017
| Landon Lawson | Episode: "Return to Skyfire" |
| 2018
| {{sortname|The|Mayor|dab=TV series}} | Don Viola | Episode: "The Pitch" |
| 2018–2021
| Gary | 3 episodes |
| 2019
| Brad | Episode: "Barbara T. Warren" |
| 2019
| Tad Frye | Episode: "Kimmy Finds a Liar!" |
| 2019
| Ranger Norm | Voice, episode: "Ranger Norm" |
| 2019
| Abby's | Clark | Episode: "Rosie's Band" |
| 2019
| Kids Say the Darndest Things | Himself | Episode: "Dad, Plug Your Ears!" |
| 2020
| Dr. Owen Maestro | 10 episodes |
| 2020
| Schooled | John Calabasas | Episode: "Boy Bands" |
| 2020
| Leo | 6 episodes |
| 2020
| Himself | Episode: "Joel McHale, Amanda Seales, Ron Funches, Ana Gasteyer, Rob Huebel, Nikki Glaser" |
| 2021–2024
| The Sex Lives of College Girls | Mr. Murray | 8 episodes; recurring role{{Cite web |title=Rob Huebel |url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1097364/ |access-date=2022-06-27 |website=IMDb |archive-date=2022-05-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220518071855/https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1097364/ |url-status=live }} |
| 2021
|Hudson |Voice, episode: "Moments in Love, Chapter 4" |
| 2021
|Xander Holmes |Episode: "No One Is to Blame" |
| 2022
| Chadd Worthington / Charles Worthington / Chester Worthington | Episode: "Triplet Homicide" |
| 2022
| Ghosts | Ari (Present Day) | Episode: "Trevor's Pants" |
| 2023
| Colin | |
| 2024
| Pellino | Episode: "Hold the Pickles, Keep the Change" |
| 2024
| Knuckles | Dylan Beagleton | 2 episodes |
=Web series=
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