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Award-winning producer of “Growth.” NY Times Bestselling author of "Shrinkage." Co-host, TFV @andersonandbryan. Weekly Baldywood Newsletter.
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Hi friends. Tomorrow night, @baldbryan’s documentary @growth.movie screens in Santa Monica at the Awareness Film Festival @awarenessfest, and I would love for you to be there with us.

Bryan spent more than ten years making this movie. It asks one question: can you laugh at cancer? He spent 18 years proving the answer is hell yes.

GROWTH is about comedy and cancer, but it’s also about caregiving, family, and how you keep laughing through the hardest thing in your life. It’s funny. It’s heartbreaking. And it’s Bryan through and through.

His film won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at @cinequestorg film festival in March, and was the only sold out film the at entire @davincifilmfestival two weeks ago. Bryan didn’t live to see the audience's most recent reactions, so now it’s my job to carry his torch and make sure this movie helps as many people as possible.

At Bryan's premiere, the whole theater stood up at the end in cheers for what he had accomplished. Let’s do it again. Bring a friend, enjoy a beautiful movie, and come hug me. I’ll need it.

And if you know someone who would connect with this film, please share this post. 💛

🗓 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15
🕡 6:30 PM
📍 Illusion Lounge Main Theatre, 1418 4th Street, Santa Monica 90401
🎟 Tickets: link in bio

@baldbryan #GROWTH #BaldBryan #AwarenessFilmFestival

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Hello LA friends! I directed a documentary called GROWTH that screens tomorrow night, THURSDAY OCTOBER 15TH, in Santa Monica at the Awareness Film Festival @awarenessfest

I spent ten years filming my friend Bryan Bishop @baldbryan for this movie. Sadly, Bryan passed away last month. We spent ten years making this thing, if you haven’t seen it yet, I’d love for you to come out. Bring a friend, watch a movie, and hang with us.

And to everyone who came to our recent screening, thank you! If you know someone who might connect with the film, please share this.

ILLUSION LOUNGE MAIN THEATRE. 1418 4TH STREET, Santa Monica 90401.
6:30P START.
TICKET LINK: https://app.entertainmentoxygen.com/festivals/awarenessfestival/events/69aa28e8-9b64-422c-9b96-cbf3fae4db5c/screenings/5fc4728a-6acc-412a-b474-4654a5cad455

Hope to see you there!

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#baldbryan #bryanbishop #adamcarolla #adamcarollashow #adamcarollapodcast

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“Growth” is screening at The Grove - @amctheatres, Saturday, September 26th!

Directed by Dominic Russo and written by podcaster Bryan “Bald Bryan” Bishop, this feature documentary chronicles Bishop’s personal battle with a brain tumor. It explores the healing power of humor and the vital role of caretakers, featuring appearances from comedian Adam Carolla and Dr. Drew Pinsky. It won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the @cinequestorg Film Festival.

Tickets here:
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/davinciinternationalfilmfestival/2303900 ❤️

#losangeles #podcast #documentary #doc #braintumor

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In 2015, a mutual friend set me up with a radio/podcast guy named Bald Bryan who wanted to make a comedy documentary about his brain tumor. Hilarious.

I would learn that in 2009, Bryan had been diagnosed with a brain tumor and given six months to live. But, as Bryan liked to say: “I made that doctor look like an idiot.”

Sadly, after eighteen years of proving doctors wrong, Bryan passed away this past Friday night, surrounded by family and friends.

From 2015 to 2025, I filmed Bryan getting healthier, then sicker; his tumor shrink and, later, grow. Christie got pregnant and had Tessa. (I didn’t film that.) I watched his baby girl become a big kid. And maybe the hardest thing to watch… I filmed Bryan practicing stand-up comedy.

Somewhere in the middle, the film felt impossible to finish. I had small children and was trying to pay the bills like the taxi driver from Total Recall. More than once, I decided I couldn’t make it a priority anymore.

But then I’d talk to Bryan. He’d ask about my family, stay positive, then mention some SNL cast member he’d landed for the documentary.

I’d complain about shooting another interview alone; Bryan would show up excited despite another horrific medication side effect. He never acted like a victim.

After ten years around a guy with an inoperable brain tumor, I learned that whatever I was bitching about probably wasn’t that bad.

Bryan wasn’t going to quit, so neither was I. And, after a quick ten years, in early 2026 we finished Growth (thanks to our fantastic editor/producer, @tylergurdfilm) and premiered it with Bryan, Christie, Tessa, family and friends.

Growth screens again this Saturday, September 26, at @davincifilmfestival at The Grove— our first screening without Bryan.

I wish he could be there to laugh at his own jokes and bask in his own glory. But I’m grateful that, in the first days after losing him, a roomful of people will get to hear Bryan’s story and laugh with him.

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It’s taken me a while to write something, mainly because this one was a real gut punch. Bryan Bishop was one of those unique people that came into your life unexpectedly but made a profound impact. We met last Halloween through friends, and that led to a professional relationship as well as a friendship. We shared commonalities, we were survivors, and I was so proud to work on his funny & heartfelt documentary @growth.movie. This was a man who was beating all the odds, a walking miracle, and he executed it all with kindness & warmth & sincerity & humor. He was a living testament to just being a good person. Generous of spirit. He used his extra time here with us to touch so many, inspire, heal. I really thought this latest serious health challenge would just be another temporary derailment which he would get through. Sadly, we lost this special person on September 18 and the world got a little dimmer. All my love goes out to his family, Christie, Tessa, all his friends who loved him and the strangers who did as well. I hope his movie can get out there wide one day. You all deserve to see it. Until then, try to live life well for him, and may you all have a Bryan Bishop in your life.

(and because he would want us all to smile… I’m choosing my accompanying music for him)

@baldbryan @pardonmycrumbs #baldbryan #ripbaldbryan #growthmovie #fcancer

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Bryan Bishop passed away, but his legacy will live on with his work. @baldbryan Bishop passed of a brain tumor but made a film that is debuting this Saturday at the DaVinci Film Festival at @thegrovela. The movie is called “Growth.” Let’s pack the house for Bryan. Let’s sell it out for a man who never stopped giving back. The film will be showing Saturday 9/26 from 4:45-6:50pm. The movie will be shown and then Bryan’s widow Christie will lead a Q&A. Let’s celebrate and mourn this amazing man together. I’ll be there. Link below. If you can’t make it, a GoFundMe has been set up to help support Bryan’s widow and daughter. I’ll put the link to the film festival and then the link to the GoFundMe below. Love you all.
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/davinciinternationalfilmfestival/2303900
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-bryan-and-christie-bishops-health-journey-yfhdq

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A close friend of E2AC, patient advocate, and all around hilarious, great human Bryan Bishop passed away this past weekend on Friday.

After 7+ years of work, the film he spent so much of his last days on is set to make its local premiere in Los Angeles - where he, his wife, and young daughter called home - this coming weekend.

Premiere details here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DdCNBgSx_uD/ ❤️

Read a tribute to the man whose humor, courage and love for his family left a lasting mark on everyone fortunate enough to know him: https://awardsheaven.substack.com/p/bryan-bishop-1978-2026 ❤️

#hilarious #human #tribute #film #filmmaker

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“Not BRYAN BISHOP!” 😭😭😭

The King of Drops, the Master of Point-Shitting, the Classmate of Tom Brady… frick, my heart is so heavy💔

Most of us know the backstory- brain tumor diagnosis in 2009, given 6 months to live… And Bryan kicked that prognosis’s ass for 17 MOFO YEARS!!!
…which was extraordinary and miraculous and exceptional just like you, Bryan… but I sit here today and think- “yeah but still… How?…. How is it over…?” We were so used to you beating the odds… 😭

When I started working at Carolla Drinks I came in as a huge fan of Adam’s and everyone on the show. Teresa Strasser so brilliantly captured Bryan’s role on the show and the magic he created on ACS… I used to MARVEL that this guy started as a random call screener back in the Loveline days- because you would have thought from listening to the show he was a first round draft pick (that’s for you B) (if there were such a thing) to joining the pioneering pirate ship podcast of the Adam Carolla Show. He was lighting fast, whip-smart, eloquent and those DROPS alone are deserving of an award in some Comedy Hall of Fame!

Ironically, because I began working out of the studio and saw Bryan frequently there and at events- I never actually told him how much I loved him and what he brought to the show… which makes me kind of sad… When you’re around someone during the comings and goings of work, then fans are around at events- I think I always thought there would be another, better time to talk more in depth… and then you don’t (usually) know when the last time is that you’re gonna see someone…

I was fortunate that I got to be ever so slightly in the mix with ACS & Bryan… some of those days & events were the best days of my life and memories I will forever cherish.

But even as “just” a listener- the laughter and JOY Bryan brought to my life is immeasurable and unforgettable…

Thank you Bryan… I’m so sorry… and so heartbroken for Christie, Tessa and all of your families and loved ones. 💔

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Here’s a drawing I did of Bald Bryan. “Not Bryan Bishop!” RIP
@baldbryan @pardonmycrumbs

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I’m not usually someone who makes posts like this unless someone genuinely affected me, and @baldbryan did. I’m so, so sad and sorry to hear about his passing.

I worked with the Adam Carolla Show for several years, filling in Gina’s chair whenever they needed me, and Brian always went out of his way to make me feel at home, welcome, and like I actually belonged there. And when that feeling does come along, you don’t forget it or the people who made you feel that way.

Super grateful to this guy. He was such a stand-up guy and had such impeccable comedic timing. I feel legitimately lucky to have known him.

Life, man.

Thinking of his wife, daughter, family, and everyone who loved him.

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