I've reviewed so many comedies about cancer recently I've started to feel less like a critic and more like an oncologist. There have been health-related dispatches from Richard Herring, Mark Steel, Matt Forde, Laura Smyth and the late Janey Godley among others. You might start to think being a stand-up is bad for your health.
With the sad exception of Janey Godley, the aforementioned have, spoiler alert, recovered and are back to firing on all creative cylinders. And none more that Rhod Gilbert, whose tour charting his far-too-close encounter with head and neck cancer has now been extended into 2026.
