Pauline Cornelis has cancelled her entire new stage show due to a cancer diagnosis, the comedian and writer announced on Instagram.

“I am now being treated by very good doctors and nurses,” wrote Cornelis, 48. “It is all difficult, but my family and I are getting a lot of help from our dear friends and family.”

She will be going on tour with her new show next year. commaCornelis invites people to go see a show by a comedian they don’t know yet. “Because thanks to the people who came to watch me when I first started, I was able to learn my craft. So be surprised by an unknown name! In the meantime, I’m focusing on healing and making peace with my family.” People who have already ordered tickets for her new performance can get their money back.

As of September, she can be found again on the front page of de Volkskrant “For as long as possible”. And also her new book Confused Guinea Pig Returns to Office They will be released as planned.

Her first cabaret show was held in 2008. Dawn It premiered and won the Neerlands Hoop Cabaret Award. She broke through as a writer a year after the book. Language is really my thing.Where she writes in an entertaining way about the everyday use of the Dutch language.

Her first novel was published in 2016: guinea pig mixabout a guinea pig who works in an office. Two years later she made the TV series for VPRO. Tokidoki About Japan, where she lived for some time.

Last year, Cornelis lived with her family in Sheffield, Great Britain, where she did a project with Dutch studies students from the University of Sheffield.

As a columnist, she has written for NRC Next and NRC for ten years, and has written for Volkskrant three days a week since 2018.

This is not the first time Cornelis has been diagnosed with cancer. In 2021, she was diagnosed after a talk show appearance. Jink An email from a surgeon was examined saying she must have had a spot on her neck. Her GP immediately sent her to hospital, where thyroid cancer was diagnosed.

She needed surgery to remove half of her thyroid gland. A week after the operation, she received a surprise call, she later said. Interview with M. The tumor turned out to be benign. “And I thought, ‘I’ve been going on for six months with just this ‘huh’ feeling. So it wasn’t necessary at all?’ Then the doctor rightly said, ‘The only way to know is to have surgery.’”