A brief spell writing theme tunes, pop songs and jingles combined with the love of a good woman to bring Rob back to London, where at the beginning of 2000 his stand-up comedy career began in earnest, although he had already spent a decade or so finding any excuse to get up on stage, leading, for example, to a legendary sing-a-long of the Home And Away theme tune late one night at the Edinburgh Festival in 1994.