Robert Schimmel Dead |Comedian Dies Of Injuries From Accident
If you never had to see a Robert Schimmel show, you truly missed out on some great comedy. I still every now and then pull out the DVD of one of his HBO specials. He was truly a comic genius.
Unfortunately, Robert Schimmel passed on from injuries sustained in a car accident. It was made all the worse as his daughter was driving and she remains in the hospital
Standup comic Robert Schimmel, a frequent guest on Howard Stern’s radio show, has died after suffering serious injuries in a car accident. He was 60.
Schimmel’s spokesman, Howard Bragman, says Schimmel died Friday evening in a Phoenix hospital.
Schimmel was a passenger Thursday in a car driven by his 19-year-old daughter Aliyah. Bragman says Aliyah Schimmel swerved to avoid another car and the vehicle she was driving rolled to the side of the freeway. Bragman says she is hospitalized in stable condition.
Robert Schimmel lived in Scottsdale. The 60-year-old comedian has been a frequent guest on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” and on Howard Stern’s radio show. His 2008 memoir, “Cancer on $5 a Day,” chronicles his battle with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Robert Schimmel Dies Of Crash Injuries (NewsCore) – Controversial US comedian Robert Schimmel, best known for his work on the “Howard Stern Show,” has died from injuries he sustained in a car …
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