Cancer, Comedy and Robert Schimmel

As one of the most respected working stand-up comedians of our time, Robert Schimmel, has for more than 20 years, made thousands of comedy fans laugh as well as influenced a huge crop of up-and-coming comics, as he’s constantly likened to Lenny Bruce, George Carlin and Richard Pryor. But since he beat the non-Hodgkins lymphoma he was diagnosed with in 2000, his comedy has done a lot more than create laughs.
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