{"id":718648,"date":"2026-06-22T05:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T05:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/718648\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T05:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T05:39:15","slug":"comedian-moshe-kasher-reveals-cancer-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/718648\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedian Moshe Kasher Reveals Cancer Diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI\u2019m so grateful I have a life that\u2019s worth living and a kid to raise this Father\u2019s Day,\u201d wrote comedian <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/moshe-kasher\/\" id=\"auto-tag_moshe-kasher\" data-tag=\"moshe-kasher\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Moshe Kasher<\/a> on Instagram today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe context: Kasher revealed in his post that he was diagnosed with tonsil cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tKasher shared that, three months ago while working on the Judd Apatow-Glen Powell project The Comeback, he \u201cfound a bump\u201d on his tonsil. He the related a harrowing procedure two days ago at Cedars Sinai in which \u201ca Jewish robot yanked my jaw open for five hours\u201d in order to get the cancer out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe good news, he said, \u201cis the cancer I have has an incredibly high cure rate (in the 95% zone),\u201d before adding that a determination on whether radiation will be needed will happen next week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cMy life has been terror, meditation, tears and medical planning,\u201d he wrote. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe comedian has appeared on Whitney, Shameless, Brooklyn Nine-Nine and The Pitt. His stand-up act has been featured on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Conan and John Oliver\u2019s New York Stand Up Show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tKasher thanked his wife, fellow comedian Natasha Leggero, and Judd Apatow for being \u201ckind, supportive and nurturing\u201d on set.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHe also said he and Leggero recorded a whole hour of conversation just before his surgery and that would be available on their The Endless Honeymoon Podcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019m so grateful I have a life that\u2019s worth living and a kid to raise this Father\u2019s Day,\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88,309513],"class_list":["post-718648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-moshe-kasher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}