Scott Adams, the creator of the once-beloved comic strip Dilbert, revealed Monday that he has been diagnosed with the same aggressive prostate cancer that former President Joe Biden is battling.
During an episode of his YouTube show, Real Coffee with Scott Adams, Adams said, “I have the same cancer that Joe Biden has. It has spread to my bones.”
He expressed sympathy for Biden and his family, who announced Biden’s diagnosis just one day earlier.
Adams described the pain from his illness as “basically intolerable,” noting that he relies on a walker and expects his life to end sometime this summer.
Despite the grim prognosis, he said the diagnosis has given him time to say goodbyes and get his affairs in order.
The Dilbert comic strip, which humorously critiqued office culture for decades, was dropped by most newspapers in 2023 after Adams made racist remarks about Black people during an online show.
At that time, he called Black Americans a “hate group” and refused to “help” them, comments widely condemned as hateful and discriminatory by publishers and readers alike.
The San Francisco Chronicle, one of the papers to drop Dilbert, said the comic “went from being hilarious to being hurtful and mean.”
Scott Adams’ cancer announcement brings renewed attention to a figure once celebrated for his humor but later mired in controversy — now facing a serious health battle alongside the former president.
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