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Cancer on Five Dollars a Day* (*chemo Not Included): How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My Life - Tapa dura

Schimmel, Robert

 
9780738211589: Cancer on Five Dollars a Day* (*chemo Not Included): How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My Life
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ISBN 10: 0738211583 ISBN 13: 9780738211589
Editorial: Da Capo Press Inc, 2008

Sinopsis

This is stand-up star Robert Schimmel's edgy, hilarious and poignant musings on his personal battle with cancer.In the Spring of 2000, Robert Schimmel was riding high. He'd won been voted the Stand-Up of the Year at the American Comedy Awards, his HBO TV show "Unprotected" was a huge hit, and his sitcom Schimmel had been picked up by Fox and was slated for later in the year in the slot following "The Simpsons".And then it all came crashing down. Diagnosed with stage three non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, he was told he would have to undergo an aggressive and immediate course of chemotherapy. The sitcom was put on "hiatus" (i.e. dumped) and the fire of his white-hot career started to go out.But Schimmel never lost his sense of humour, his knife-edge, and most of all, his passion to entertain. Indeed, it was his basic need to laugh - even if the only people around him were suffering from cancer, and the room he was playing to was the other patients at the clinic during chemo sessions - that carried him through his ordeal. From his colourful banter with nurses to his hilarious conversation with a wig salesman, going for the laugh was Robert Schimmel's survival mechanism. Luckily for the readers of this book, he took notes.Alternately laugh-out-loud funny and poignant, "Cancer on Five Dollars A Day" shares what Schimmel experienced and what he learned during treatment.

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Voted the Best Male Stand-Up at the American Comedy Awards in 1999, and named one of Comedy Central's 100 Greatest Comics, Robert Schimmel has had Showtime and HBO specials, bestselling CDs of his routines, a Fox TV pilot, consistently sold-out club dates, and is a regular on US TV show Late Night with Conan O'Brien. He mostly lives on the road, but also calls Los Angeles home.

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Editorial
Da Capo Press Inc
Año de publicación
2008
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0738211583
ISBN 13 
9780738211589
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
224
Contacto del fabricante
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9781410415769: Cancer on Five Dollars a Day (*Chemo Not Included): How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My Life (Thorndike Large Print Laugh Lines)

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ISBN 10:  1410415767 ISBN 13:  9781410415769
Editorial: Thorndike Pr, 2009
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