LUMPY JOE

Laughter is like cancer: they both leave a lump in your throat and will kill you unless you go to a doctor and get them to drop an A-bomb in your mouth (or a Q-bomb if you're NHS. Biting political satire, cos y'see, standards in the NHS aren't as high as they should be, so instead of atomic bombs they have qtomic bombs, but then if you live your life according to the rules of the keyboard, Q is above A, and W is above A too, but Q is more, so maybe it's good and maybe it's not, but it's good in spirit anyway, even though it's shit cos it doesn't have enough money because people think that they shouldn't pay for services with tax, they should pay for services with money, which makes a lot of sense if you're a complete fucking retard, and even more sense if you're not a complete fucking retard but have the sense of a complete fucking retard) and laughter is like cancer: they leave a lump in your throat and require doctors with radiation, but they also sneak up on you like a motherfucker - being male I'll never fuck a motherfucker; I might fuck someone who once was or will be a motherfucker, but unless I grow myself a uterus and give birth, I can never fuck a motherfucker; I don't suppose (scuse two semi-colons, but you don't really care, do you?) I really want to fuck a motherfucker, but it's just the fact that I can never fuck a motherfucker that I find limiting, unlike cancer and laughter which can be anything you want them to be, except a cancerous monkey laughing at the cancerous face of another monkey who's laughing at the cancerous face of the first monkey - there's ironic; good thing they aren't photographing each other or the universe would implode (just once, juuuuuuust once, that's all I'm asking for, I'd like the universe to explode. Sorry about the clauses. It's all good.

I once knew someone who had cancer and laughed. Scientists, doctors, medicine men, all kidnapped him and cut him open until they'd managed to cut the cancer out of him. You'd think that they'd somehow cut the laughter out of him too, wouldn't you? Wrong. You can't cut laughter out with a knife, a scalpel, a chopper, a hacking blade, oh no nono. You (one) can (two) cut (three) laughter (four) out (five) with (six) a (seven) sharpened (eight) spoon (nine) but (no more fucking numbers, count yourself motherfuckers) doctors won't use sharpened spoons (cf. New York Not The Times, front page, Dec 82nd 19927 "Doctors Won't Use Sharpened cont. p.2" and New York Not The Times, page 2, Dec 82nd 19927 "cont. from p.1 Spoons") because it's not professional (cf. ibid. "It's not professional"). Laughter and cancer are the same. Chop them up and lightly fry them in honey and spices - always honey, always spices - then toss into some pasta with some honey, pasta, spices, and a little cancer and laughter to garnish, then serve to your guests screaming wildly "Eat that you motherfuckers, it's fucking laughter, cancer, honey, spices and pasta," throwing in an exclamation mark if the mood calls for it (no candles). Hit them with the handles of the knives, gripping the blade firmly in your hand... well, as firmly as you can, but this pathetic desire of man - man being man and woman - to not bleed and not get hurt too much ensures that you don't beat your guests into a twitching pulp, just gently imply that you'd like them to eat the laughter and cancer you've served them and you're willing to hit them with the handle of a knife to make sure they do. They'll ask for wine or water, just give them orange juice.

Cancer patients (why do they call them patients? Is it because they are more than one patient?) are known as the funnest people around. Bad comedians will go to the local hospices and bribe the doctors to up the painkilling dosage for one night only, then sell tickets to all the dead people and sit them in the second row (front row for people who come from towns in the Midwest called Cuntsville, or Motherfucker City, or once fucked a whore and beat her to death rather than fuck her and pay her the $14) and laugh their motherfucking lumps off. They die, people hear rave reviews from the motherfuckers from Cuntsville and the cunts from Motherfucker City about all the laughter that was going on - it wasn't to their taste, per se, literally, but all the coughing people were laughing their motherfucking lumps off, so it must have been funny, even though they didn't really understand it per se - bad comedian becomes bad comedian with people pretending they find it amusing, even though they don't get it, the cancerous die and the laughing fuck off to fuck their mothers, motherfucker.