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There are about five or six comedy-nerd posts rattling around in my head, meant to be immortalized for all six of you readers, but this came to my Tumblr this morning and I was indignant!  And indignant to me means "forget about impulse control or editing!  Just rant, baby!"

So, I caught this photo over my morning coffee:

SERIOUSLY?

You smug bastards, have you ever been to a comedy show?

Dale and I have used all of these as punchlines - dare I say, to pretty good effect.

When I make a 'fat' joke - by the way, I am fat - I make the most joyous, self-affirming, put-it-out-there fat jokes around.  When I use 'illness' as a punchline - by the way, I have Stage III rectal cancer - it's funny.  And awkward.  And funny.  And yes, empowering and brilliant and vulnerable, and funny.  And it shows people that illness is real, a tough part of life that sometimes deserves to be treated with actual humor.

I am proud - and I know many other comics are - to use these words as punchlines.  Did it make you laugh? Did it make you uncomfortable? Did it make you - heavens forbid - actually THINK about these cheaply printed words?

And another thing - not only are they in fact punchlines, yes indeedy, but the idea of comedy is worthless without punchlines.  I think what really makes my blood boil is the fact that 'punchlines' - the staple, the lifeblood of my art - are being reduced to a cheap negative by these font-fucking Etsy rejects.  And that is utterly, utterly wrong.

Good comics work hard on their 'punchlines.'  They craft, write, edit, perform and perform some more.  Perhaps they're talking about their lives.  Perhaps their lives involve, oh, some of the above.  Do you expect to go to a comedy show and hear jokes about nothing but happy bunnies?  (Clearly, their lives involved something besides bunnies.  Do you folks want jokes about bunnies? Or will that offend the animal-rights snotheads among you?)

Bunnies?

Okay, I'm off for some breakfast.

I defy you, comedy community, not to be heartily insulted by this.