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Mark Trevorrow was born on the 4th of February 1959. He attended Murumbeena State Primary and State High School and his first job was working in the window of the Grace Brothers department store in Murwillumbah. He also worked as a copy boy for the Sun News Pictorial, and later as a freelance editor for the arts end of Vogue magazine.

In the early 1980s he became interested in the Australian entertainment scene, and Gloria and the Go Gos (better know as the Globos) was formed. Their biggest claim to fame was their single 'Tintarella De Luna' in 1982. Needless to say the group split in about 1984 - the same year Trevorrow's alter ego "Bob Downe" was born. "The reason Bob works so well on stage is that I have been doing it since I was a kid", said Mark in an interview once.

Trevorrow never dreamt about becoming a comedian. Instead he had his heart set on becoming a journalist. The character Bob Downe is famous for wearing funky clothing from the 70s, claiming to drive his mother's apple green Austin Kimberly with brown upholstery, and he is said to live in Murwilliumbah with his mother. "My influence on the fashion world? In a word, profound."

From the mid-80s Trevorrow has worked the comedy scene. He gained notoriety for performing with the Doug Anthony Allstars in the late 80s, and for performing his one man shows at various comedy festivals all over the world, particularly the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. But he has also appeared at the Brighton Festival and Mayfest in Glasgow. In 1995, he sold out his first London West End theatre season at the Bloomsbury theatre.

Bob Downe, a confirmed bachelor, has been called the Prince of Polyester, the King of Kitsch and "a singing, dancing, grinning, prancing, living Ken doll." Trevorrow draws his inspiration for the character from, amongst others, Pauline Hanson, Barry Humphries, Reg Livermore, and Peter Allen.

Trevorrow divides his time between Australia and the UK. In the UK he had his own television show, Bob Downe Under, and in 2000, "The Bob Downe Show" premiered on Australia's pay-TV station TV1.

Mark Trevorrow has hosted several Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras broadcasts. "Even as a tiny child it is indicated to you that being gay is not an acceptable thing to be," (he knew he was gay at age eight). "How times change," Trevorrow says. "That's what you call a triumph over injustice and diversity." He also hosted the 1999 Aria Music Awards alongside Paul McDermott.