article_snippet: Sam Simon was diagnosed in February 2013 with terminal colon cancer.
article_snippet: Sam Simon said with a laugh on Marc Maron's WTF podcast that first ran in May 2013.
article_snippet: Most recently, Sam Simon was a consultant on the Charlie Sheen series "Anger Management" and hosted a show on Radioio.com.
article_snippet: Tired of the grind, Sam Simon exited The Tracey Ullman Show in 1993 after four seasons but worked out a deal tied to home video sales that Sam Simon said paid Sam Simon "tens of millions" every year.
article_snippet: The agreement also guaranteed Sam Simon executive producer credit long after Sam Simon departed, and Sam Simon name appears in the credits of every episode.
article_snippet: A couple of years after Sam Simon left, Sam Simon knew Sam Simon would have enough money to retire from show business.
article_snippet: Sam Simon was in Sam Simon mid-30s.
article_snippet: The sort of lifetime achievement stuff that I'm getting now is kind of like Tom Sawyer's funeral because they all know I'm sick," Sam Simon told THR's Gary Baum.
article_snippet: Born June 6, 1955, Sam Simon grew up in Beverly Hills in an era when the neighborhood was "quaint," as Sam Simon put it.
article_snippet: An avid poker player, Sam Simon re-created An avid poker player home game in a penthouse at the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas for a Playboy TV show in 2009.
highlights_snippet: Sam Simon earned millions and was determined to give it away .
  