Richard Herring has revealed he has been diagnosed with incurable leukaemia, five years after beating testicular cancer. The 58-year-old stand-up comedian and actor, known for his work on Channel 4’s ‘Taskmaster’, opened up about the diagnosis in a raw and characteristically humorous essay that he shared with his subscribers on the publishing platform for writers.Herring revealed his exact condition is called hairy cell leukaemia. “Let me give you the bad news first. I have cancer again,” he wrote. “Not ball cancer this time, I can’t afford to lose another one of those, though I will be doing my show ‘The Male Eunuch’ if it does happen. This time I have blood cancer. And God is determined to make sure I get the funniest cancers possible, and this one is called hairy cell leukaemia. The other bad news is that it is incurable.”
Richard Herring on the hopeful side of his diagnosis
Despite the seriousness of the news, Herring made clear in his essay that there remained reason for hope. “The good news is that it’s entirely treatable and will not kill me. The treatment has a tiny chance of killing me, but so has loading the dishwasher, so don’t worry about it,” he wrote.
