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Tireless and active at the tender age of 89, multiple Emmy award winner Asner is on the road – and has been for several years – entertaining audiences throughout the US, Canada, and this week at the Earagail Arts Festival, with his one-man performance of ‘A Man And His Prostate,’ penned by his friend and screenwriter Ed Weinberger.

Based on Weinberger’s own story, the show is both a theatre production, hard-hitting and comical, and a public service health declaration. In Asner’s words, it’s “a story of life, love and death.”

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A star-studded surprise happened Friday at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Emmy Award-winning actor Ed Asner, who is known for roles on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “Roots,” “Gunsmoke,” and “Elf,” toured the Applied Technology Lab for Advanced Surgery.

Asner is touring the United States to perform his one-man play, “A Man and His Prostate.”

A legend, recognizable from films like “Elf” and TV classics like “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” stopped in Buffalo Friday.

Ed Asner stepped off the stage and into Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center.

The Emmy-winner visited Buffalo on tour for his one-man show titled “A Man and His Prostate,” telling the story of a man confronting prostate cancer.

This is a seriously funny show, based on a serious subject. A life-changing week in a foreign hospital included a rectal exam, enemas, the fear of post-surgery impotence and sex after 70. A Man and His Prostate gives the audience a HILARIOUS scenario. Ed Asner makes A Man and His Prostate so gut-bustingly funny.

“This is a play about life and death. There’s also some love in it, for those who like that sort of thing. It’s a hilarious one-man play written by award-winning writer Ed Weinberger. Asner’s appearance is a delightfully thrilling opportunity to experience his considerable talents. He lands every joke with monumental comic timing. In part a public service announcement for men to get prostate exams. A Man and His Prostate is totally entertaining due to its superior writing and Ed Asner’s great star performance.”