Standup comic Robert Schimmel, whose X-rated brand of humor made him a Howard Stern favourite, has died from injuries suffered in a automobile accident. They was 60.
The Bronx-born Schimmel died Friday night in a Phoenix hospital, said his spokesman, Howard Bragman.
Schimmel, a frequent visitor on Stern's radio show, was riding in a automobile driven by his 19-year-old daughter, Aliyah, when the vehicle flipped Aug. 26.
Bragman said Aliyah Schimmel swerved to keep away from another vehicle & lost control of the automobile, sending it rolling to the side of the freeway.
Schimmel's daughter is hospitalized with nonlife-threatening injuries.
His 11-year-old son, who also was in the automobile, was reportedly released from the hospital hours after the accident.
The son of Holocaust survivors, Schimmel rose to stardom with the help of Rodney Dangerfield.
In 1986, Dangerfield invited Schimmel to perform on his HBO "Young Comedians Special," setting the young comic on his path to fame.
In addition to appearing with Stern, Schimmel was a frequent visitor on "Late Night With Conan O'Brien."
The self-deprecating Schimmel was known for incorporating details from his personal life - the lovely, the bad & the ugly - in to his routines. Schimmel survived a heart assault & battled non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. His first marriage ended in a messy divorce; they was on the brink of splitting along with his second spouse.
"He was the butt of his own jokes & lampooned his own foibles & distinctive circumstance," Bob Merlis, the veteran music publicist who signed him to Warner Bros. Records in 1996, told the Examiner.com. Schimmel is survived by his brother, Otto; father, Sandy; father, Jeffrey & his second spouse, Melissa.
He is also survived by his seven kids from his first marriage - Jessica, Aliyah & Jacob - & seven sons from his second marriage, Max & Sam.
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