
Healing Bobby: From the Battlefield to the Comedy Stage
Bobby Henline survived a roadside bomb in Iraq that killed the four other soldiers in his vehicle and left him burned over more than a third of his body, after fifteen reconstructive surgeries. The film follows him from military hospital recovery to the stand-up comedy stage, where he now builds his act around his own scars and prosthetics rather than avoiding them. Interviews and footage of his performances show him working rooms of strangers and fellow veterans alike, using dark humor about his injuries as a way to talk about trauma without flinching from it. The film also touches on his life before the injury and the toll the recovery took on his family, framing comedy as the tool that let him process what conventional therapy could not fully reach. It is a short, direct portrait built around one man's decision to turn a battlefield injury into material, rather than a story he keeps hidden.