After a profitable comedy profession that has included roles in The Workplace and the Sizzling Tub Time Machine motion pictures, Craig Robinson is looking it a day, apparently.
The actor introduced his comedy retirement in a current Instagram video. “Hey, all people! Simply needed you to listen to it from me: I’m quitting comedy, however not for nothing,” he stated. “It’s been an incredible run, and y’all been wonderful and great. However I’m following one thing larger. So, you already know, thanks a lot. I like you, and keep tuned.”
Within the caption to the video, Robinson stated he’s “engaged on one thing big” as he turns his focus to his “true calling.”
Robinson gave followers a clue about his future in an Instagram video the next day.
“Hey, guys! Massive shoutout to all my small enterprise homeowners,” he stated in that clip. “Hey, you guys received any recommendation for me whereas I’m making an attempt to get my enterprise afloat? I hit just a few bumps within the street, and I certain would recognize you guys’ suggestions.”
And in that Instagram video’s caption, Robinson wrote, “Seems, having a dream and constructing a enterprise with your mates are two very various things. I can’t go into element simply but, however for actual, although, any assist can be big.”
No matter Robinson is doing subsequent, he has the help of celeb buddies.
“I hope it includes music!” David Arquette wrote in a remark. “You’re sensible at no matter you [choose] to do.”
“We love you, Craig!” Kate Flannery, a fellow alum of The Workplace, wrote. “Go massive, my good friend!”
Arsenio Corridor added the hashtags “#getitdawg” and “#goodluck,” and Howie Mandel quipped, “Being a dancer is hard, however go for it.”
Robinson is greatest identified for his help position as warehouse foreman Darryl Philbin on The Workplace — incomes 5 SAG Award nominations along with his costars and three particular person NAACP Picture Awards— and he later starred within the TV comedies Mr. Robinson, Ghosted, and Killing It.
His different TV roles embody recurring roles on Eastbound & Down, Mr. Robotic, What We Do within the Shadows, and Brooklyn 9-9. He has additionally voiced characters in The Cleveland Present, American Dad!, and Massive Mouth.
On the movie aspect, Robinson costarred in This Is the Finish and the Sizzling Tub Time Machine motion pictures and lent his voice to Shrek Endlessly After and The Unhealthy Guys. His efficiency within the 2016 movie Morris From America earned him a particular jury prize at that yr’s Sundance Movie Pageant.
In fact, there’s an opportunity Robinson’s retirement announcement is a bit… maybe to advertise some forthcoming display position!