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Pray for this man.


He revealed he has pancreatic cancer.

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FROM GETTING ASSAULTED BY CHEVY CHASE NO DOUBT...ANYWAY I HOPE HE KICKS THE CANCERS ASS...FUNNY GUY.

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I always liked him. No controversy and funny. Sadly pancreatic cancer is one of the more deadly ones.

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THAT SUCKS.

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Probably helps to get your facts correct though.. https://time.com/6215318/eric-idle-pancreatic-cancer. He survived it.

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Glad I was wrong. The article I read it from never made any mention of him surviving it.

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Eric Idle was just revealed last week as a masked singer on Season 8, episode 1 of The Masked Singer on Fox in the USA. (It was one of the worst episodes ever on that show, trashing the previous formats.) They let him close the show singing Always Look On the Bright Side.

William Shatner was also revealed on the same night. Only one of the four singers could actually sing.

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sad news

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I just found out he survived it. The article I read could have done a better job explaining that.

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You never survive something like pancreatic cancer because it is right in the middle of liver, pancreas, and all the other organs or digestion and it spreads. Just a question of how long it takes to come back. It is a terrible cancer to have

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Up to 10 percent of patients who receive an early diagnosis become disease-free after treatment. For patients who are diagnosed before the tumor grows much or spreads, the average pancreatic cancer survival time is 3 to 3.5 years.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/pancreatic-cancer/pancreatic-cancer-prognosis#:~:text=Up%20to%2010%20percent%20of,is%203%20to%203.5%20years.

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He's had a great life. Everyone has to go some time.

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You know what they say...
some things in life are bad,
they can really make you mad,
other things can make you swear and curse,
when your chewing on life's gristle,
don't grumble, give a whistle,
and this'll help things turn out for the best
and...

Always look on the bright side of life,
(whistle)
always look on the light side of life,
(whistle)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJUhlRoBL8M

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The name didn't ring a bell, but the cheeky face did. He was hilarious in Life of Brian. Good comedic actor. Cancer is a cunt.

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My favourite line in the song is, "life's a piece of shit, when you look at it."

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