{"id":237555,"date":"2026-04-30T08:11:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T08:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/comedian-sinbad-back-on-stage-over-five-years-after-suffering-stroke\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T08:11:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T08:11:02","slug":"comedian-sinbad-back-on-stage-over-five-years-after-suffering-stroke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/comedian-sinbad-back-on-stage-over-five-years-after-suffering-stroke\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedian Sinbad back on stage over five years after suffering stroke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2026-04-30\" datetime=\"1777536662\" pubdate=\"\">30 April 2026<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p>Sinbad is back on stage for the first time in over five years after suffering a stroke.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Sinbad is returning to the stage<\/p>\n<p>\nThe 68-year-old actor and comedian revealed he was &#8220;so looking forward&#8221; to getting back to live comedy for two sold-out shows in Pasadena, California on April 29 and May 10.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn an Instagram video on Wednesday (29.04.26), he said: &#8220;I can&#8217;t walk. Since the stroke in 2020, I have not been on stage. I&#8217;m gonna get my feet wet. April 29th, May 10th at The Comedy Ice House in Pasadena, California.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s just the beginning of me coming back. I wanna thank everybody who bought tickets, I think it&#8217;s already sold out.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m so looking forward to these shows! I&#8217;ve got so much stuff to talk about, I&#8217;m gonna be talking more trash than I ever talked.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nHe revealed that he had &#8220;two very funny people&#8221; opening for him, including longtime opening act Chase Anthony, and Sinbad&#8217;s own daughter Paige Bryan.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe added: &#8220;That&#8217;s the first time we worked together as comics on stage, I&#8217;m looking forward to this &#8217;cause she talks more trash than I talk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nHe ended the video with a heartfelt message to his fans for their support over the last few years.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said: &#8220;I thank you for all the prayers people prayed for me. It worked!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the caption he wrote: &#8220;Some moments you don&#8217;t rush. You just wait until they&#8217;re ready. Tonight is one of those moments. I&#8217;m coming back to the stage \u2014 and I&#8217;m bringing family with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nLater in the day, Paige shared her own post about the show.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe said: \u201cTonight, I&#8217;m opening for the man, the myth, the legend himself. My daddy makes his return back to the stage at the legendary Ice House. This is bigger than I can fully comprehend.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cSince starting comedy, my dad has only been able to watch me perform twice. Mainly due to the fact that MOST clubs are not ADA accessible so he literally can&#8217;t get in there.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s been heartbreaking to be on this journey without my biggest cheerleader so when I say tonight it special \u2014 it&#8217;s a moment I will NEVER forget and ALWAYS cherish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nThe father and daughter duo are yet to share any posts about the first performance.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn a lengthy post on his website, his family previously detailed his health battles since suffering an ischemic stroke.<\/p>\n<p>\nAt the time, they said: &#8220;After surgery, Sinbad was talking and moving with some weakness, but the prognosis was very promising. The next day, however, another blood clot formed, half the size of the first&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;He underwent the same surgery again successfully but it took a little more from him than the first surgery&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;He was transferred to Cedar Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles where the doctors indicated that his brain had begun to swell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nHe underwent a &#8220;craniotomy to relieve the pressure and reduce the swelling&#8221;, but his surgeon found a bleed during the procedure, and he was put into a medically induced coma, as well as placed on a ventilator.<\/p>\n<p>\nIt took several weeks until the Jingle All The Way star could speak or open his eyes, and months until he was slowly taken off the ventilator before starting therapy.<\/p>\n<p>\nHis odds of surviving were around 30 percent, but he has overcome that.<\/p>\n<p>\nHis family added at the time: &#8220;Sinbad is a light source of love and joy for many generations. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;While he is beginning his road to recovery, we are faithful and optimistic that he will bring laughter into our hearts soon. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Our family thanks you in advance for your love and support and ask for continued prayers for his healing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/comedian-sinbad-back-stage-five-years-after-suffering-stroke-1441515.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>30 April 2026 Sinbad is back on stage for the first time in over five years after suffering a stroke. Sinbad is returning to the stage The 68-year-old actor and comedian revealed he was &#8220;so looking forward&#8221; to getting back to live comedy for two sold-out shows in Pasadena, California on April 29 and May [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":237556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15098,15097],"class_list":{"0":"post-237555","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-paige-bryan","9":"tag-sinbad"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}