Scott Adams, the creator of the comic strip “Dilbert,” announced on Monday that he had been diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer. He said it was the same kind of cancer that former President Joe Biden was diagnosed with.
“Dilbert” was a famous comic strip that humorously criticized the inner workings of corporate America through the life of a fictitious and animated engineer named Dilbert. It ran from April 1989 until March 2023, after numerous publications dropped the comic strip over comments Adams made pertaining to race relations in the country.
Adams announced his prostate cancer diagnosis on his “Real Coffee with Scott Adams” podcast. After first talking about former President Joe Biden’s diagnosis, wishing him well, and analyzing many of the responses to Biden’s cancer revelation, Adams told his audience of his bout with the disease.
“Today, I am going to take the opportunity… to make an announcement of my own,” Adams said. “Some of you have already guessed, so this won’t surprise you at all. I have the same cancer that Joe Biden has, so I also have prostate cancer that has also spread to my bones. But I’ve had longer than he’s had it, well, longer than he’s admitted having it.”
Adams then announced a grim diagnosis of how much longer he has left to live.
“So my life expectancy is, maybe, this summer,” Adam said. “I expect to be checking out from this domain, sometime this summer.”
Adams then chronicled his struggles with the disease, detailing his pain and how, on many days, he finds it intolerable. He said that he must use a walker every day and that he is always in pain.
“Every day is a nightmare, and evening is even worse,” Adams claimed during the podcast.
Known for the comic strip, Adams made remarks in 2023 that were deemed controversial, which eventually led major publications to pull the “Dilbert” comic strip, effectively ending it. It was later relaunched as a webcomic. He became somewhat of a political pundit later in his career. While always dabbling in political commentary, especially with the contents of the “Dilbert” comic strip, he was one of the first to predict that Donald Trump would win the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
In February 2018, Adams was interviewed by the Washington Examiner, in which he raved about Trump’s first year in office.
“I think history might judge this one of the most successful first years of any presidency. I’m not a presidential historian, so there may be some other examples that are clearly more,” Adams told the Washington Examiner at the time. “But from a Republican point of view, the number of things that he got done that were important to them is really impressive. I mean, ISIS is beaten down. You know the list, right? Immigration is down. Just by persuasion, it’s down, plus probably stronger enforcement.”
“You see that North Korea might be getting a little flexible. You see the economy’s good. You see the small business confidence level at the highest it’s ever been,” he added. “Black unemployment is at its lowest rate in a long time. So, it’s hard to find anything that’s not trending in the right direction, at least at this point.”
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Adams would go on to have many political guests on his podcast and continue to talk politics even after his supposed controversial remarks. Now, living with a terminal disease, claiming only to have months to live, he spoke of finding it “civilized” to know how much time he had left.
“I have to say everybody has to die, as far as I know, and it’s kind of civilized that you know about how long you have so you can put your affairs together and make sure you’ve said your goodbyes and done all the things you need to do,” said Adams. “So, if you had to pick a way to die, this one is really painful, like really, really painful, but it’s also kind of good that gives you enough time while your brain is still working to wrap things up.”
