Larry David Fights Cancer

About a year and a half ago I dated this girl who still holds the title of best fuck ever (and, like Usain Bolt, I don't really expect anyone to touch her record for some time). Anyway, I saw her do stand up one night at the Giggle Bin or the Chuckle House or whatever -- some place on Sunset where the money I saved on my comp'd ticket ended up being spent on some pushy DJ's mixtape - thanks, bro, good luck never making it. Wow two dashy tangents in one sentence. I guess the theme to this post is setting personal records. But it SHOULD be about this Larry David thing. So, where was I.....

Oh yeah, so Best Fuck Ever is doing her act, which is pretty good considering cute girls tend never to be funny. In fact they're often the opposite. Want to suck all the humor out of a room? Have a pretty girl add her two cents to shit-talking joke-filled banter and I guarantee the combination of her bad joke and the discomfort it creates will turn your puss sour.

So my girl is on stage doing alright for herself and then she tells a cancer joke that was actually funny. I can't remember the joke but I did laugh out loud and I was the only one. She recovered well, pointing out that cancer jokes are hit or miss. Here's my question: why? In the same way I use my big brother's Rafael's downs syndrome (no I didn't make that up) as a free pass to say retard, cancer hasn't come quiiiite close enough (Aunts and Uncles but no immediate family or me) for me technically to be allowed to say this but there's plenty funny about cancer. Especially if it's a clown with cancer.

In the clips below, Larry David coaxes some funny out of cancer, for the sake of cancer (specifically Stand Up To Cancer). I hope you like, I love. But I wonder what would have been the reaction to the bit if he'd done it, say, on stage without the Stand Up To Cancer angle. Definitely would have been like the retards protesting Tropic Thunder or the dudes who took offense to "black hole."

In a side note, Best Fuck Ever is engaged now and she's a fantastic girl so I'm thrilled for her, but fuck, can't we just knock boots once or twice more. For posterity.