Comedy and Cancer: What's So Funny?
Comedy and Cancer
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Here are a few funny and empowering books, plays, TV series, and movies that promote humor and comedy when battling cancer.
Tig Notaro
Stand-up comedian and writer survived breast cancer and a double mastectomy."Hello, I Have Cancer."
Fran Drescher
Cancer Schmancer - the book, the Movement, and the Foundation
Fran started the Cancer Schmancer Movement and Cancer Schmancer Foundation to "transform women from patients into medical consumers, and to shift this nation's priority from searching for a cancer cure towards prevention and early detection of cancer."
'Thank God I Got Cancer!' New book by Angelina Assanti laughs at 'The Big C'
Speaker and author Brenda Elsagher has a funny and inspiring book on battling and surviving colorectal cancer,
If the Battle Is Over Why Am I Still In Uniform?
Humor as a Survival Tactic to Combat Cancer.
God said HA! Julia Sweeney
Brilliant and touching stand-up comedy performance. Cancer is a family affair.
The Big C - Showtime TV Series
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