Greg is gone. Robert Schimmel has passed. My internet is incredibly slow today. I can’t even read TMZ - this is the real tragedy. Anyway…  Both of these comics I highly respected, and wasn’t here to post when Schimmel died. SO…

First I present a segment from “Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn”, a highly underrated Comedy Central show that should still be on the air today. Here’s Greg Giraldo, a usual Tough Crowd guy:

I hope Giraldo is burning people in Heaven as he did here on earth.

And Bob Schimmel, whose sad death I failed to acknowledge because I was away; here I present one of Bob’s many classic Howard Stern interviews. Strength can overcome certain doom, and Bob showed us the possible success of the human spirit’s inner warrior.

Hope with me there will be no more stand-up deaths. Of course we could pray for the health and safety of everyone, but fuck those guys! Stand up comics represent a tightly knight family, and it hurts whenever one of our most beloved are lost.