• mommykink
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    1 year ago

    Sure thing. Here you go

    On the language of “losing/winning” a “battle” with cancer:

    “I’m pretty sure when you die, the cancer dies too at the same time. So that to me isn’t a loss, it’s a draw.”

    It’s worth mentioning that Norm MacDonald died from leukemia in 2021 and the joke was probably written sometime early into his diagnosis or pre-diagnosis. If I were reading into it like an English teacher, I’d say that this is an example of a man candidly coming to terms with his own mortality, vocalizing it in the only way he knew how: third-person comedy. It’s just all-in-all a pretty saddening thing to look back on. Almost reminds me of that tragedy.