[1] In his teens, he worked as a parcel pickup boy at Woolworths, Garden City, Kotara, and as a barman at the Mary Ellen Hotel, Merewether.

[2] He formally co-hosted the breakfast program on Sydney radio station Triple M with Amanda Keller in 2001 and then Vega 95.3 alongside Tony Squires and Rebecca Wilson.

[3] The recognition he gained through Triple J launched Robins's career in television comedy; he appeared on Live and Sweaty and was a regular on McFeast before joining McDermott on Good News Week in 1996.

[citation needed] Robins is also a published author, having co-written two books, Three Beers and a Chinese Meal (with Helen Razer),[5] a bestseller, and Big Man's World (with Tony Squires and Steve Abbott).

In 2003, he was diagnosed with extreme sleep apnea which caused him to stop breathing around 70 times an hour while he slept, due in large part to his weight.