Dave, whose family has roots in Germany, worked as a teacher at MidCity High School in Davenport for three decades (per LinkedIn). Although comedy wasn’t the career path they hoped Robin would pursue, Robin said her mom and dad have supported her every step of the way.
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To this day, Robin maintains a close-knit relationship with her parents. In 2020, one year after Season 1 of A Black Lady Sketch Show premiered on HBO, Robin took to Twitter to reveal that she had paid off her parents’ mortgage.
“I called my parents this morning and they were trying to figure out some problems they were having with their mortgage account,” Robin wrote. “They thought it might be identity theft. I said, ‘Nah I just paid off your house.’”
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She spoke more about the generous gift she gave her parents in a 2021 interview with the hosts of The Real. “For me, it was just the ultimate dream to be able to do that for my parents,” the comedian recalled tearfully. “I'm like crying thinking about it now. But they freaked out and they were just like, ‘What?!’’
“That was just like the ultimate sign that I had like made it, you know? I was like, wow the the fact that I can do that just means everything,” she added.
Along with Robin, Phyliss and Dave also have two other daughters — Acacia and Mackenzie.
Catch Robin on Season 4 of A Black Lady Sketch Show, premiering April 14 on HBO!
