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Interactive Comedy By The World's Only Legal Pickpocket
Is Crime a Laughing Matter?... It is, when Bob Arno demonstrates his twisted take on pickpockets. You’ve seen “that pickpocket guy” all over TV. Now see him live. Interactive comedy pickpocket stage show blends hilarity and reality. High impact, audience participation for small to huge audiences. With smart, timely, useful content, audiences learn through their tears of laughter. Call it a “show,” call it a “keynote.” It’s different, powerful, side-splitting.
In his hilarious exposé performance, The Art of the Steal, Bob Arno blends comedy with reality. His spectacular show of classic thievery reveals the sly tricks of pickpockets plying city streets worldwide. A few minutes of exclusive video showing actual street thieves informs, amazes, and preludes Bob's surprising take on how it really happens—with a comedy twist.
Time magazine called him “the world’s foremost expert on the techniques of first-rank pickpockets.” Ongoing research on global street crime has made Bob Arno the authority most consulted by police, security experts, and film producers.
He is co-author (with his wife, Bambi Vincent) of the book Travel Advisory: How to Avoid Thefts, Cons, and Street Scams.
For the past fifteen years, Bob has been “in the field,” tracking and filming real street thieves in action, in the world’s favorite travel destinations. His goal was to bring new material to his presentations, adapted from the latest MOs of the street thieves themselves. Bob succeeded in that endeavor, and much more. After realizing that people are universally intrigued by this petty crime viewed from the inside out, he brought an educational content to his comedy shows that audiences absorb with fascination, right through their laughs.
Bob’s career has moved from nightclubs to casino showrooms to theaters to industrial entertainment. He currently specializes in multinational corporate events, where audiences arrive with vastly varied experience and expectation. Multilingual and highly visual, his physical funny-business and audience participation break language barriers, amazing and amusing all. Bob’s “ConMan Comedy” is truly cross-cultural comedy.
Is Crime a Laughing Matter?... It is, when Bob Arno demonstrates his twisted take on pickpockets. You’ve seen “that pickpocket guy” all over TV. Now see him live. Interactive comedy pickpocket stage show blends hilarity and reality. High impact, audience participation for small to huge audiences. With smart, timely, useful content, audiences learn through their tears of laughter. Call it a “show,” call it a “keynote.” It’s different, powerful, side-splitting.
In his hilarious exposé performance, The Art of the Steal, Bob Arno blends comedy with reality. His spectacular show of classic thievery reveals the sly tricks of pickpockets plying city streets worldwide. A few minutes of exclusive video showing actual street thieves informs, amazes, and preludes Bob's surprising take on how it really happens—with a comedy twist.
Time magazine called him “the world’s foremost expert on the techniques of first-rank pickpockets.” Ongoing research on global street crime has made Bob Arno the authority most consulted by police, security experts, and film producers.
He is co-author (with his wife, Bambi Vincent) of the book Travel Advisory: How to Avoid Thefts, Cons, and Street Scams.
For the past fifteen years, Bob has been “in the field,” tracking and filming real street thieves in action, in the world’s favorite travel destinations. His goal was to bring new material to his presentations, adapted from the latest MOs of the street thieves themselves. Bob succeeded in that endeavor, and much more. After realizing that people are universally intrigued by this petty crime viewed from the inside out, he brought an educational content to his comedy shows that audiences absorb with fascination, right through their laughs.
Bob’s career has moved from nightclubs to casino showrooms to theaters to industrial entertainment. He currently specializes in multinational corporate events, where audiences arrive with vastly varied experience and expectation. Multilingual and highly visual, his physical funny-business and audience participation break language barriers, amazing and amusing all. Bob’s “ConMan Comedy” is truly cross-cultural comedy.
