{"id":38646,"date":"2025-07-04T17:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T17:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/38646\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T17:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T17:48:09","slug":"craig-robinson-makes-surprise-announcement-im-officially-quitting-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/38646\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Robinson Makes Surprise Announcement: &#8220;I&#8217;m Officially Quitting Comedy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/craig-robinson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_craig-robinson\" data-tag=\"craig-robinson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Craig Robinson<\/a> is leaving the comedy world behind for what <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-office\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-office\" data-tag=\"the-office\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Office<\/a> alum says is \u201csomething huge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn Instagram posts \u2013 watch them below \u2013 Robinson announces that he\u2019s retiring from comedy and teases that he intends to start a small business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn the first video, Robinson, whose post-Office career includes roles on The Cleveland Show and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, says, \u201cJust want you to hear it from me. I am quitting comedy, but not for nothing. It\u2019s been an amazing run, and y\u2019all been amazing and wonderful. But I\u2019m following something bigger. So, you know, thank you so much. I love you, and stay tuned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn a subsequent video, Robinson, who played warehouse foreman Darryl Philbin in The Office, asks for advice on starting a small business, saying he\u2019s hit a \u201cfew bumps in the road.\u201d That video is captioned, \u201cTurns out having a dream and building a business with your friends are two VERY different things. I can\u2019t go into detail just yet, but for real though any help would be huge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cBig shoutout to all my small business owners,\u201d Robinson says in the follow-up video. \u201cHey, you guys got any advice for me while I\u2019m trying to get my business afloat?\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWhatever career path he chooses, Robinson has the support of some fellow comedians, including his Office cast mate Kate Flannery. She left a comment in the Instagram post saying, \u201cWe love you, craig!!! Go big, my friend!!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOther celebrities who left comments include Howie Mandel, who joked, \u201cBeing a dancer is tough, but go for it.\u201d Arsenio Hall wrote, \u201cYou been called to preach? \u2018If loving you is wroo0ng, \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 I don\u2019t wanna be riiiiiight\u2019!\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAnd David Arquette commented, \u201cI hope it involves Music! You\u2019re brilliant at whatever you chose to do.\u201d (Robinson has played with the funk band The Nasty Delicious since 2007.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Craig Robinson is leaving the comedy world behind for what The Office alum says is \u201csomething huge.\u201d In&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":38647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[31107,171,31108,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-38646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-craig-robinson","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-the-office","11":"tag-tv","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}