Robert Schimmel - Life Since Then (DVD)

Robert Schimmel’s brand of all-too-real humour has put him at the forefront of comedy ever since he first began writing gags for, among others, Yakov Smirnoff, Jimmie Walker, Gabe Kaplan and Joan Rivers. His big break came when he was singled out by Rodney Dangerfield and invited to perform on an HBO special. From there, guest shots in a wide variety of TV and film productions set the stage for his recorded comedy debut, Robert Schimmel Comes Clean in 1997, followed, a year later, 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 1999 American Comedy Awards. Diagnosed with cancer in 2000, Schimmel’s career was put on hold but he has used this misfortune to benefit not only himself but countless other sufferers with the proceeds from his charity work being used to fund Comedy CD and DVD libraries in Cancer treament centres across America. Voted one of Comedy Central's 100 greates stand-up comedians of all-time, Robert Schimmel set record ratings for his Showtime and HBO specials and was about to star in his own prime-time television series series. Then he hit a few road bumps. He had a heart attack, got cancer, had his television series cancelled before it began, met his soul mate, lost his wife when she found out about the soul mate, lost a house, got remarried...though not necessarily in that order. As the title suggests Robert Schimmel survived all that and this DVD of a performance live from New York tells how…

- Backstage with Robert Schimmel
- Deli Extra