Dr Jo Prendergast. Photo: Supplied
When Dr Jo Prendergast was diagnosed with breast cancer, she decided the best thing to do was to write an 80,000 word manuscript about her experience, and create a comedy show out of it.
She's an award-winning Kiwi comedian, after starting stand-up comedy in 2017 at the age of 48, as well as a psychiatrist and author of her teenage mental health book for parents 'When Life Sucks'.
Dr Jo's bringing her new hit comedy, Cancer and Cartwheels, to the New Zealand International Comedy Festival next month, where she laughs her way through menopause, healthcare inequality, toxic positivity and much, much more. Some of the proceeds from ticket sales will also be going to the Cancer Society.
She joins Mihi to talk about her new show and her experience of surviving breast cancer.
