Pissing Out Cancer

Pissing Out Cancer is a comedy special by Internet personality and entrepreneur Hank Green, released on Dropout in 2024. The special centers around Green's experience of Hodgkin lymphoma, which he was diagnosed with in May 2023. While still in treatment, Green began testing stand-up comedy material; Sam Reich of Dropout.tv, having been sent a clip of Green's work, offered him a full special, which he accepted after initial hesitation about "cut[ting] the line" of other performers. Green's special – inspired in part by comedians like Tig Notaro and John Mulaney – follows his experience of having cancer, interspersed with comedic tangents, an explanation of cancer, and reflections on beauty and positivity in life despite its challenges. Pissing Out Cancer was received positively by critics in the news media and on the internet.