THEATRE + COMEDY

Improv Comedy Showcase and Restaurant presents Robert Schimmel.

 "The best comedy comes form the truth," says Robert Schimmel. "Unprotected" his debut HBO comedy Hour, successfully premiered November of 1999. Schimmel is one of the few comedians that have comedy cd's released on Warner Bros. Records. Robert Schimmel's show is not for the easily offended. All shows for Robert Schimmel are non-smoking shows.

Robert Schimmel is a survivor.  In the spring of 2000, Robert Schimmel was riding high. He had won the Stand-Up Comedian of the Year award, his HBO special was a huge hit, and his Fox sitcom “Schimmel” had been picked up. Then it all came crashing down. Diagnosed with stage III Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, he was told he had to start chemotherapy immediately. The sitcom was cancelled, and the fire of his white-hot career started to fizzle.

But Schimmel never lost his sense of humor, his searing honesty, and most of all, his passion to make people laugh. Indeed, it was his basic need to entertain - even if the only people around him were suffering from cancer and the room he was playing was the Mayo Clinic infusion center - that carried him through his ordeal. From his colorful banter with nurses and other patients during chemo, to a crazy encounter with a wig salesman, to his hilarious foray into medicinal marijuana, going for the laugh was Robert Schimmel¹s survival mechanisim.

Named one of Comedy Central¹s 100 Greatest Comics and a recipient of “The Celebration of Life Award” from the National Lymphoma Society.

Today Robert Schimmel still going strong. He has written a best selling book entitled “CANCER ON $5 A DAY * CHEMO NOT INCLUDED” He has a new SHOWTIME special “Life Since Then” and he is integrating his experiences and life lessons with comedy, providing his audiences not only with laughter, but cancer awareness and hope.