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Born in the Bronx, Robert Schimmel's "big break" came in 1986 when Rodney Dangerfield invited Robert to perform on his HBO Young Comedians Special (also debuting Andrew "Dice" Clay, Bill Hicks, Dom Irrera, and Carol Leifer), which led to his critically-acclaimed Showtime specials Hard Core in the Big Apple and Robert Schimmel: Guilty As Charged.While a staff writer on the hit series In Living Color, an impromptu set at a local club generated the opportunity to perform in Scotland at the Edinburgh Festival in 1994, where he was nominated for the coveted Perrier Award. In 1997 & 2002, he headlined at Montreal's Juste Pour Rire (Just For Laughs), the world's largest international comedy festival. Red-hot word-of-mouth sparked the attention of major media, resulting in editorial pieces in Billboard Entertainment Weekly, and US News & World Report, and a four-page feature profile in Playboy Magazine. Consistent delivery has made him a regular on several shows, including The Howard Stern Show and Late Night with Conan 0'Brien, on which he has appeared seven times!
Robert Schimmel has proven that the best comedy comes from the truth. His all-too-real brand of humor, which spotlights relationships and sex, has put him at the forefront of the comedy circuit. Other TV shows Schimmel has been seen on include Hollywood Squares and The Simpsons, and he has been seen in the films Scary Movie 2, A Low Down Dirty Shame, and Blankman, as well as at the US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, where he delivered a stellar performance. Robert's CD releases include Robert Schimmel Comes Clean, followed by If You Buy This CD, I Can Get This Car, which helped to land the performer the prestigious Best Male Stand-Up Comic Award at The 13th Annual American Comedy Awards and his latest release Robert Schimmel: Unprotected, recorded from his HBO special Unprotected. [LESS]
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Comedian Robert Schimmel and his wife decide whether or not to circumcise their son.
Do not stick anything in a dolphin's blowhole.
It comes natural for a bear to ride a bicycle.
It might be kind of awkward if the shark wasn't even going to attack you.
A lot of commercials send the wrong messages about their products.
Extra insurance? Am I gonna get in an extra accident?
You do comedy? Yeah, that's why you're installing my stereo.
My daughter saw this billboard for this place: 'Swim With the
Dolphins.' She goes, 'I wanna do that.' I said, 'It's a lot of money -- forget about...
I went to rent a car, and the guy goes, 'Do you want the extra
insurance?' I said, 'Why -- am I gonna get into an extra accident?'
I took my kid to the circus. 'How do they teach a bear how to
ride a bike?' 'It's easy, honey, they nail his feet to the pedals, and they beat the...
I flew out here on Southwest Airlines. Southwest has a plane
that's painted like Shamu the whale from Sea World. Yeah, that'll be easy to find if...
It's fun to be in California. The police are kind of weird
here. They ask you stupid questions. 'Do you know why I pulled you over?' Because I have...
If you get a ticket, you can go to traffic school, and they
make you watch movies for like eight hours: head-on collisions, mannequins flying out...
They do have weird ads. That one with the mother and daughter
on the beach -- 'Mom, why do they have douche?' Why don't you ask the pelicans that...
A lot of weird ads. Sally Struthers with that little kid: 'Just
55 cents, the price of a cup of coffee, feeds this kid and his family for a week.'...
You know what's weird about plane crashes is that you watch it
on the news and they say the people have to be identified by their dental records....