Shortly after, Delaney posted a profoundly moving statement online about losing his son, and how he was determined to stay positive for the sake of his other children (Delaney and his wife have two older sons and a younger one born after Henry’s death). You don’t want your kid’s hair to fall out through chemo – but if it does, aesthetically, a sweet little fuzzy head is quite lovely to hold and kissĭelaney’s son Henry was two when he died from a brain tumour. Having a foot in these two worlds gave me a perspective on just how unequal things are.” “I was spending time with people who were disabled, dying, often people who were much less materially fortunate than myself. “Then he got incredibly sick, then disabled, and then he died.
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“I have a potentially unique perspective in the sense that as my career was taking off and I was being surrounded by wealthier and wealthier people, my son got sick too,” he says. Delaney had campaigned for Labour with a moving video extolling the brilliance of our NHS. When we meet – slightly more boringly for coffee in a bar near his home in north London – the 42-year-old comic is still raw from December’s UK election results. “He’s just Canoe Cheese Man to me.”Īnd yet Delaney is reminded of the guy’s impact on a regular basis. “I don’t even remember his name,” he laughs. It was in that moment that Delaney believes his core principles were formed. I remember saying: ‘Man, this is good,’ and he said: ‘Yeah, food tastes better when you share it.’ ” And the friend I was with took out his cheese and a knife, sliced off a piece and gave me some. But in his head he’s there now, reminiscing about a pivotal point in his life. Not literally that would be a weird place to do an interview.
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Rob Delaney is on a canoe, sailing down the north American waterways with a massive lump of cheese in his mouth.