Comedian Robert Schimmel dies after car accident

[Va Beach VH Fan]

Terrible, dude was funny as hell...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100904/ap_on_en_tv/us_obit_robert_schimmel

PHOENIX – 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.

[chefcraig]

That's awful, particularly if you are familiar with what the man went through fighting cancer.

RIP, Mr. Schimmel.

[FORD]

Damn that sucks. You beat cancer, and then go out in some random fucking freak accident

[PETE'S BROTHER]

very shitty deal

[Little Texan]

I believe he was the creator of Triumph The Insult Comic Dog and the Ambiguously Gay Duo if I'm not mistaken. That sucks as the guy was a comic genius! I really enjoyed his funny ass TV Funhouse cartoons on SNL. RIP

[Little Texan]

Er, that's Robert Smigel I'm thinking of. Wrong guy, but RIP anyway to Mr. Schimmel.

[Little Texan]

Now that I googled his name, I do remember seeing him on tv a few times.

[hambon4lif]

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[jhale667]

Tragic. Dude beats cancer and goes out like that. Sad. R.I.P.

[Va Beach VH Fan]

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[GAR]

It's always delightful to read reports of Howard Stern's entourage reaping what they've sowed after soiling American culture with their vile bullshit.

[twonabomber]

It's always delightful to read reports of Howard Stern's entourage reaping what they've sowed after soiling American culture with their vile bullshit.

that's kind of a shitty thing to say, and i'm not really surprised that it was you who said it.

[Unchainme]

It's always delightful to read reports of Howard Stern's entourage reaping what they've sowed after soiling American culture with their vile bullshit.

says the person who put a toy car up their ass and gave it to a small child.

[Green Manalishi]

I heard this guy a lot on the Bob & Tom show , a syndicated classic rock morning show . He was pretty funny . Sad . I feel for his daughter .

[Von Halen]

It's always delightful to read reports of Howard Stern's entourage reaping what they've sowed after soiling American culture with their vile bullshit.

He wasn't part of "Howard Stern's entourage". He was a guest on the Stern show, much like a lot of celebrities and comedians. Hopefully you can meet a much more violent and painful demise, for soiling these great message forums with your lying and vile drivel.

It's a shame Schimmel had to go out like this after beating cancer a few years ago. Schimmel was a funny motherfucker.