Comedian Keith Robinson says Viagra induced life changing stroke

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By Jon Levine

There’s no hard feelings.

Comedian Keith Robinson said a crippling stroke he suffered in 2020 came shortly after he popped an ill-timed Viagra.

“My c–kblocking stroke had to stick its face where it didn’t belong,” Robinson, 60, reminisced to The Post by phone this week.

The story — and more — are expected to be recounted in a new Netflix special the comic filmed at Sony Hall earlier this month.

The event was attended by comedy luminaries including Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes and is expected to be released in early 2024.

The trouble for Robinson began on a flight to Phoenix, where the comedian had ventured for a tryst with a longtime lady-friend.

“Now I am drinking and drinking on the flight — first class of course — and I am a little hammered,” Robinson recalled in a slow drawl. He “popped a Viagra” 20 minutes before landing.

“I timed it perfectly,” he said.

Robinson, who had a smaller stroke in 2016, said he began feeling the symptoms as he was landing, but decided to forgo medical attention in favor of his original plan.

“Should I go to the hospital and live or try to get laid,” Robinson said, recalling the internal deliberations. “And she’s seeing me and then things start to happen, but bad. My arm was gone, my leg was gone and the only thing that was still working was from the Viagra.”

Robinson ultimately didn’t get medical attention until the next day.

“She’s a person that I’ve worked with for years,” Robinson said of the unidentified lady friend. “This was the first time we were going to get down to the nitty and gritty of things. That’s the only reason I flew.”

Viagra doesn’t put its users at additional risk of stroke, but there are anecdotal reports of stroke after taking Viagra while drinking heavily.

Robinson almost didn’t make it and recovery took years — but in early 2023, he began to re-emerge on New York City’s comedy scene.

The Comedy Cellar in Greenwich Village, a favorite hangout, even installed railings for him.

“They’re not [Americans with Disabilities Act] compliant, they are just for him to get himself on the stage,” said Comedy Cellar owner Noam Dworman. “He loves it so much he wouldn’t quit. He’s learned to talk about it on stage, and I would say he’s stronger now than he has ever been in his whole career.”