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Breaking Bread with Tom Papa

Episode 315 - Annabelle Gurwitch

Breaking Bread with Tom Papa

All Things Comedy

Arts, Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Food

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Happy surprise Thursday episode! We welcome Annabelle Gurwitch to the table, and she and Tom chat all about fun topics such as Cancer and Death. Seriously, though, it's a great discussion. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. Today, we are spending time with Annabelle Gerwitch. She is fantastic,

0:06.0

funny person, an actress, a writer. I would like to say comedian, but she hasn't done

0:12.9

stand-up comedy, but she is a very funny person. You know her from dinner in a movie,

0:17.1

which ran forever on TBS. She's been NPR. She's been in films. She's had six books,

0:25.5

I believe it's six. She was on the New York Times bestselling author. She has a new book that

0:31.7

we're going to discuss today, and it's fantastic. It's called The End of My Life is Killing Me,

0:36.6

The Unexpected Joys of a Cancer Slacker.

0:40.8

And she has this amazing story you're going to really,

0:46.4

it's gonna knock you out.

0:49.0

She got this diagnosis for stage four lung cancer during COVID and just came out of nowhere.

0:58.2

There was no, nothing, no signs, no nothing.

1:01.6

Like one of those scenarios that, you know, we all walk around thinking, is that going to

1:05.9

happen to me?

1:06.5

And it happened to her.

1:08.4

And you don't want it to say, you don't want to, you don't want anyone to go through this.

1:14.2

But the great thing that came out of this is that you have someone who's a great writer

1:17.9

and is able to really take that situation and put it into very thoughtful words.

1:25.9

It's a very hopeful, fun book.

1:28.2

And as soon as you meet her in the interview,

1:33.3

you understand exactly what I'm talking about.

1:35.7

This is a special person, a really nice light out there in the world.

1:40.7

And we had a great conversation, and I really hope you enjoy it. So enjoy my time with

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