Cancer on Five Dollars a Day (chemo not included): How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My Life
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (575 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B002U0KOO0 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Pure Schimmel R. Weinstein As is usually the case with Schimmel's humor everything "affects" him. From earlier in his career to present he has always been the fall guy. Now, with not only comedic drama in his life but a very real medical dilemma, he is still the fall guy. However, this time it's not funny, it's for real!Schimmel turns his cancer into a poignant story loaded with humor as only he can see it. It's a viewpoint that many would like to have, but usually fail to see h. More laughs than tears but plenty of both. JACK BUTLER I love Robert's comedy and when I saw him on Conan's show, I immediately ordered a copy of his book. I think I laughed out loud on every page for the first half of the book. The second hundred pages had plenty of Robert's wonderful humor, but also moments that brought tears. He is quite a comedian and quite a human being. I definitely recommend his book.. Rick Strebel said Super book to read. loved the book it. I have cancer and have not had anything done yet. This book is an eye opener as to what you will have to go through when it is your time. A lot of f bombs dropped so be aware. Good price for the book
Indeed, it was his basic need to entertaineven if the only people around him were suffering from cancer and the room he was playing was the Mayo Clinic infusion centerthat carried him through his ordeal.Alternately laugh-out-loud funny and deeply moving, Cancer on $5 a Day is a stirring account of how one man’s face-off with a deadly disease helped him better understand himself, and ultimately changed his life.. In the spring of 2000, stand-up comedian Robert Schimmel was diagnosed with stage III non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and soon the fire of his white-hot career started to fizzle.But Schimmel never lost his sense of humor, his searing honesty, and most of all, his passion to make people laugh
Schimmel also looks back on his son, whom he lost not long before to brain cancer. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. His world changed instantly; success in the raunchy joke trade-he also had an edgy FOX series in development-was replaced by the struggle for survival, the rigors of chemotherapy and all the fear and uncertainty that goes with it. From Publishers Weekly Schimmel already had a hit HBO stand-up comedy special and a Stand-Up of the Year title from the American Comedy Awards when, in the spring of 2000, he was diagnosed with Stage III non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Among a crowded field of inspiring and straight-talking personal survival storie