joke - funny or offensive?

[Doctor_J]

I post here thinking this demographic might be more receptive than the general public

Doctor: I'm afraid I have two bits of bad news
Patient: ouch. Ok, give me the first one
Dr: well, you have cancer
P: you're right, that is bad. What's the other one?
Dr: you have Alzheimer's
P: well, at least I don't have cancer

[In_The_Wind]

1. I'm not offended but I'm also not laughing.

Mr ITW doesn't have Alzheimer's but his memory is failing. Sounds far too real, too possible, to be funny.

[Darkhawk32]

2. Don't worry, it's funny. I laughed at it. n/t

[Renew Deal]

3. Amusing

[DavidDvorkin]

4. I've heard that one before

No, wait a minute. Maybe I haven't.

[Jenoch]

5. I find the joke amusing in a clinical sort of way.

My mother didn't have Alzheimer's, but she did have progressive dementia the last five years of her life. She died basically because she forgot that she was supposed to eat to continue to live.


On another note. As long as we're posting possibly offensive jokes in a men's forum.

A male patient is seeing his doctor.

The doctor says "You really are going to have to stop masturbating".

The patient says "Why is that, doctor?"

The doctor replies, "Because I am trying to examine you."

[lumberjack_jeff]

8. Okay, that one is funny. n/t

[bigwillq]

6. Not offensive, imo

Not a great joke, but I don't find it offensive.

[lumberjack_jeff]

7. Have you ever read the book "Stranger in a Strange Land"?

The protragonist, uh, wasn't from around here, so he didn't understand humor until he saw two monkeys in the zoo fighting. At that point he understood humor because it's always about someone's misfortune.

I had thought — I had been told — that a 'funny' thing is a thing of a goodness. It isn't. Not ever is it funny to the person it happens to. Like that sheriff without his pants. The goodness is in the laughing itself. I grok it is a bravery . . . and a sharing… against pain and sorrow and defeat.

[RiffRandell]

9. Funny. nt