Robert Schimmel died on Friday in a Phoenix hospital from injuries sustained in an August 26 car accident
Gina DiFalco
ABC News reports that comedian Robert Schimmel, 60, died in a Phoenix hospital on Friday from injuries he sustained from a car accident on August 26.
Schimmel’s 19-year-old daughter was driving the car in which the comedian was a passenger, along with his 11-year-old son. The driver swerved to avoid another accident and lost control of the vehicle. Although the 11-year-old was uninjured, Schimmel’s daughter sustained injuries, but she’s expected to recover.
The comedian survived a heart attack in 1999 and was diagnosed in 2000 with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, which he recovered from. He wrote a book about his diagnosis called Cancer on $5 a Day. No stranger to the disease, he lost a son from leukemia at the age of 11.
Schimmel is best known for his work on The Howard Stern Show as well as appearing on many HBO-affiliated programs and his own special Unprotected.
According to the New York Times, his manager Lee Kernis remembers Schimmel by saying, “Robert was always the butt of his own joke,” adding, “When he would talk about the failings of his marriages, his relationships or having kids, he always made the joke about his inability to ever win at the end.”
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