# What's wrong with Roger Ebert? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 3, 2004, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-roger-ebert/253348 "2004-07-03T05:30:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2004, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-roger-ebert/253348/1 "2004-07-03T05:30:44Z")
I haven’t seen Roger Ebert on television for many years. I don’t watch his movie review show. Tonight I saw him on 20/20 talking about Marlon Brando. It seemed to me he was talking from the side of his mouth. Did ebert have a stroke or something? ---
**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2004, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-roger-ebert/253348/2 "2004-07-03T05:37:15Z")
[Radiation for cancer](http://www.oralcancerfoundation.org/news/story.asp?newsId=77) ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-roger-ebert/253348/3 "2004-07-04T18:35:48Z")
_ **Ebert said he has had a tumor in his salivary gland “in one form or another” for 16 years.** _:eek: Not good!☹ Anyway, thanks for the info **Annie** ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-roger-ebert/253348/4 "2004-07-04T19:15:13Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > _ **Ebert said he has had a tumor in his salivary gland “in one form or another” for 16 years.** _ The tumor awakened when he overused the gland salivating over the gleefully nasty review he was going to write of “Freddy Got Fingered.” ---
**Author:** ![Live\_Better\_Electrically](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@Live\_Better\_Electrically](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Live_Better_Electrically)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-roger-ebert/253348/5 "2004-07-04T19:30:37Z")
I thought this was going to be a thread about what is wrong with his reviews. Man, he really missed the boat on **Pootie Tang**! ---
**Author:** ![International\_Playboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/48db29/32.png) [@International\_Playboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/International_Playboy)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-roger-ebert/253348/6 "2004-07-07T14:18:19Z")
Thanks for starting this topic. I caught Ebert’s and Robert’s show a couple of weekends ago after not seeing them for several months, then saw them a few days ago on Conan. I was shocked how old Ebert looked. Even his voice sounded old. Not recalling any news that he was suddenly ill, I wondered what happened too. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-roger-ebert/253348/7 "2004-07-07T15:09:40Z")
> [@Live Better Electrically!](#): > > I thought this was going to be a thread about what is wrong with his reviews. Man, he really missed the boat on **Pootie Tang**! Roger Ebert, missed a boat? Dude, if Roger Ebert made his living actually catching boats, he’d spend half his life leaning off the end of pier shouting and waving at retreating vessels.