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Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer

  • TV Special
  • 19931993
  • RR
  • 1h 2m
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
2.7K
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Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer (1993)
  • Documentary
  • Comedy
Ticked off comic Denis Leary talks honestly about subjects ranging from smoking, red meat, drugs, his family, rehab, and yes, cancer.Ticked off comic Denis Leary talks honestly about subjects ranging from smoking, red meat, drugs, his family, rehab, and yes, cancer.Ticked off comic Denis Leary talks honestly about subjects ranging from smoking, red meat, drugs, his family, rehab, and yes, cancer.
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
2.7K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Ted Demme
  • Writers
    • Bill Hicks
    • Denis Leary
  • Stars
    • Denis Leary
    • Chris Phillips
    • Adam Roth
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  • Director
    • Ted Demme
  • Writers
    • Bill Hicks
    • Denis Leary
  • Stars
    • Denis Leary
    • Chris Phillips
    • Adam Roth
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    • 25User reviews
    • 1Critic review
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    Denis Leary
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    Chris Phillips
    Chris Phillips
    • Self
    Adam Roth
    Adam Roth
    • Drummer
    • Director
      • Ted Demme
    • Writers
      • Bill Hicks
      • Denis Leary
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    • Trivia
      The night of the show's taping, the crew set up but through some error gave the actors no access to the bathroom. Just before the show, Denis Leary had to take a shit badly, but had no way of getting to it. Chris Phillips took a look at the crowd and seeing no way to get Denis to the bathroom without making the audience believe the show had started, handed Denis a mop bucket and a roll of toilet paper, and sent him into a separate room backstage. (During a documentary on the show featured on the DVD, Denis was filmed pulling his pants down and squatting over the bucket.)
    • Goofs
      The Muppet character Big Bird (performed by Caroll Spinney) sang a quavering rendition of "(It's not easy) Bein' green" at Jim Henson's funeral, not Kermit the frog.
    • Quotes

      Denis Leary: I recently read an interview in Rolling Stone, where he advocated that people should not do drugs, KEITH RICHARDS said that we should not do drugs. Keith, we can't do anymore drugs, BECAUSE YOU ALREADY FUCKIN' DID THEM ALL! There's none left, we have to wait until you die so we can smoke you're ashes, alright!

    • Crazy credits
      Denis ends the show collapsing dead from a fake heart attack, then is seen laying there not moving all through the credits as everyone is leaving.
    • Connections
      Featured in De wereld draait door: Episode #4.97 (2009)

    User reviews25

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    Top review
    Justice appears to have been served
    I love the way that this site have given Bill Hicks and uncredited writing "credit" for this - seems like they know the score and have bigger testicles than I ever game them credit for - I wonder how many packs a day they smoke :-)

    for those of you who don't know, before Leary became a corporate sell out and did beer commercials, he lifted his style, delivery, and most of his material (often verbatim) from a fellow comedian called Bill Hicks.

    He does it quite well though and No Cure for Cancer is worth a chuckle, and its easy to see why Leary's watered down, corporately acceptable, and mass marketable versions of Hicks' style and material earned Leary the success that it did - the same success and recognition that eluded Hicks during his lifetime.

    If you want your ranting and non-conformist comedy of a ultimately non challenging variety then Leary will probably do for you.

    Otherwise I suggest you try the originator of Leary's work first
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    • inaneindamembrane
    • Nov 1, 2004

    Details

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    • Release date
      • February 20, 1993 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Нет лекарства от рака
    • Production company
      • Channel 4 Television Corporation
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 2 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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