Robert De Niro

Robert De Niro is a character on Smosh based on the American actor and producer of the same name. His only appearance was in the 2007 video "Sparky Goes to a Club".

Background
Robert Anthony De Niro Jr. (born August 17, 1943) is an American actor, producer, and director. Born in New York City, De Niro studied acting at HB Studio, Stella Adler Conservatory, and Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio. His first major film credit was in Greetings (1968) and soon gained recognition for his appearances in Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) and Mean Streets (1973), the latter of which was his first collaboration with filmmaker Martin Scorsese, with whom De Niro would make nine total feature films with; The Godfather Part II (1974), Taxi Driver (1976), and The Deer Hunter (1978). In the following decades, De Niro gained further recognition for his roles in Scorsese's Raging Bull (1980), The King of Comedy (1982), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Brazil (1985), The Mission (1986), Midnight Run (1988), Goodfellas (1990), Awakenings (1990), Cape Fear (1991), This Boy's Life (1993), A Bronx Tale (1993), Heat (1995), Casino (1995), Wag the Dog (1997), Analyze This (1999), and Meet the Parents (2000). After a series of critically panned and commercially unsuccessful films, De Niro reportedly restored his reputation with roles such as Silver Linings Playbook (2012), The Wizard of Lies (2017), Joker (2019), and Scorsese's The Irishman (2019). Outside of his numerous roles as actor and producer, in 1989, De Niro co-founded the film production company Tribeca Productions with producer Jane Rosenthal and in 2002, he co-founded the Tribeca Film Festival with Rosenthal and real estate investor Craig Hatkoff.

Considered among the best actors of his generation, six of De Niro's films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Among his series of awards and accolades includes two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. In 2009, De Niro received the Kennedy Center Honor and in 2016, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama.

Appearance
While dressed like a dog, "Roberta" had light brown fur with a darker brown belly and grey eyes. In reality, De Niro is a human with light skin, brown eyes, and grey hair.

"Sparky Goes to a Club"


Under the influence of pills given to him by a "kind fellow", Sparky found himself becoming a "dancing machine", soon attracting the attention of the "best-looking pooch in the club", who started dancing with Sparky. The two "danced the night away", as described by the narrator. The following morning, Sparky woke up in bed next to the dog he was dancing with the night before, who had introduced herself as "Roberta". However, that morning, Sparky found out that the dog was not actually named Roberta, let alone female, and was actually acclaimed actor and producer Robert De Niro, who had apparently dressed up as a dog. This revelation upset Sparky to the point of throwing himself off De Niro's twenty-story balcony, but he survived the fall after landing on all fours.