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Comedy helped Riley recover after surgery on brain tumours. Now his dream is to be a clown doctor

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For Riley Blackwell, who had two brain tumours more than a decade ago, 'laughter is the best medicine'. He has joined a disability-led show on the Gold Coast, with the dream of becoming a 'clown doctor'.

It does what it says on the box; the podcast to lift you up and put a smile on your face."I've always said laughter is the best medicine."

"There was one tumour pushing down on the pituitary gland on the optic nerve, that's why it was bad for me," he said."It's good for the endorphins on the brain and everything." "There's not a lot of opportunities in their lives where there is a group of people, a group of 50 people, celebrating them," Ms Grabham said.Ms Blackwell said for some the shows are a chance to "learn teamwork; we have to learn empathy and compassion".

"These mentors that they've got — their abilities, their strength and their patience, they have this special aura about them."We're not doing Numb by Linkin Park — it's not happening."

 

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