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From the popular sidekick on the Guinness World Record-breaking podcast The Adam Carolla Show comes this candid, comical, and uplifting memoir of the author's courageous battle and recovery. At thirty years old Bryan Bishop's life was right on track: as the sidekick on The Adam Carolla Show, his career was taking off and, newly engaged, his personal life was soaring to new heights. Then he was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. Suddenly Bryan's promising future was looking at a troubling schedule of radiation and chemotherapy. But having found refuge in comedy, "Bald Bryan" recounts his alternately heartbreaking and hysterical experience of cancer treatment and recovery, from writing his will with the bravado of a pulp novelist, to taking chemo in a strip club, to achieving his life-long dream of getting another woman in the shower with him and his wife (even if it was only for physical therapy). These and other charmingly twisted scenes make the serious truly a laughing matter. Now four years since his initial diagnosis, Bryan celebrates how his aggressive treatment shrunk his tumor and gave him a new lease on life. Through odds and obstacles, blunders and dilemmas, Bryan radiates through "Shrinkage" with wonder and humor. This profound, honest, and surprisingly funny recovery book is a "Cancer Schmancer "for the "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" crowd.