{"id":8538,"date":"2024-06-26T14:44:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T14:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=8538"},"modified":"2024-06-26T15:31:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T15:31:13","slug":"keith-robinson-on-having-2-strokes-and-making-a-netflix-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=8538","title":{"rendered":"Keith Robinson on Having 2 Strokes and Making a Netflix Special"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After two strokes, the stand-up has recovered enough to make a new special. If anything, his health crises have sharpened his humor.<\/p>\n

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When the stand-up comic Keith Robinson was 10 years old growing up in Philadelphia, his father was stabbed to death in a bar. Sitting in the restaurant above the Comedy Cellar in New York on a recent weekday afternoon, Robinson explained what happened dispassionately, adding that the killer died soon after.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe got shot accidentally on purpose,\u201d he told me, flashing a mischievous grin and saying nothing more.<\/p>\n

This is the kind of story that Robinson, 60, likes to tell, one with prickly uncomfortable humor and some tough-guy swagger. But Robinson is currently at the center of a different kind of dramatic narrative, less HBO, more Lifetime channel: He had two strokes in four years, robbing him temporarily of speech and mobility; then, against the odds, he recovered enough to return to the stage.<\/p>\n

Robinson has been a fixture at the Cellar for three decades, as much a part of the fabled club as the microphone and the hummus. A comedy Zelig, he did standup on \u201cStar Search\u201d in the 1980s; was a regular on the Comedy Central show \u201cTough Crowd,\u201d inspired by the table at the Cellar where Robinson, Colin Quinn and others hung out and bickered; and even wrote on the aborted third season of \u201cChappelle\u2019s Show.\u201d He has been a mentor to many comics, especially stand-ups from Philadelphia, most famously Kevin Hart who produced Robinson\u2019s last special<\/a> a decade ago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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When Amy Schumer heard Robinson\u2019s difficulty speaking after his second stroke, in 2020, \u201cI thought he was completely done,\u201d she told me by phone. Now she is the executive producer of his new special, \u201cDifferent Strokes\u201d (Netflix)<\/a>, a jarringly unsentimental take on his health crisis that tells what could be a feel-good story with cranky irreverence.<\/p>\n

Onstage, Robinson says that facing death taught him this lesson: \u201cIf there\u2019s someone you wanted to punch, punch them now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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After two strokes, the stand-up has recovered enough to make a new special. If anything, his health crises have sharpened his humor.When the stand-up comic Keith Robinson was 10 years old growing up in Philadelphia, his father was stabbed to death in a bar. Sitting in the restaurant above the Comedy Cellar in New York on a recent weekday afternoon, Robinson explained what happened dispassionately, adding that the killer died soon after.\u201cHe got shot accidentally on purpose,\u201d he told me, flashing a mischievous grin and saying nothing more.This is the kind of story that Robinson, 60, likes to tell, one with prickly uncomfortable humor and some tough-guy swagger. But Robinson is currently at the center of a different kind of dramatic narrative, less HBO, more Lifetime channel: He had two strokes in four years, robbing him temporarily of speech and mobility; then, against the odds, he recovered enough to return to the stage.Robinson has been a fixture at the Cellar for three decades, as much a part of the fabled club as the microphone and the hummus. A comedy Zelig, he did standup on \u201cStar Search\u201d in the 1980s; was a regular on the Comedy Central show \u201cTough Crowd,\u201d inspired by the table at the Cellar where Robinson, Colin Quinn and others hung out and bickered; and even wrote on the aborted third season of \u201cChappelle\u2019s Show.\u201d He has been a mentor to many comics, especially stand-ups from Philadelphia, most famously Kevin Hart who produced Robinson\u2019s last special a decade ago.When Amy Schumer heard Robinson\u2019s difficulty speaking after his second stroke, in 2020, \u201cI thought he was completely done,\u201d she told me by phone. Now she is the executive producer of his new special, \u201cDifferent Strokes\u201d (Netflix), a jarringly unsentimental take on his health crisis that tells what could be a feel-good story with cranky irreverence.Onstage, Robinson says that facing death taught him this lesson: \u201cIf there\u2019s someone you wanted to punch, punch them now.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8540,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8541,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8538\/revisions\/8541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}