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"Growth" is a hilarious documentary about cancer. No, really. "Growth" explores the healing power of laughter and asks, "How do you joke about cancer? CAN you joke about cancer? And WHY should you joke about cancer?"
Transcript
00:12What's funny about cancer? Everything and nothing.
00:15Yes, the obvious thing, you might die.
00:18Every other thing is hilarious!
00:20How ridiculous it is to have your ball shamed by a Filipino man in front of your wife.
00:25If stress can kill you, then why can't laughter heal you?
00:29It can't be a one-way street.
00:32There's people who their immediate thought is, you can't joke about that.
00:35Whereas everyone who has had cancer is like, oh, no, no, no, you can joke about it.
00:38It's going to be some of the funniest stuff you've ever heard.
00:40I called the tumor Debbie. We had a code word.
00:42I was like, f***ing Debbie. Oh my God, she's f***ing killing me today.
00:48Humor is how you get through tragedy.
00:50You must see the humor in things or it's just too much, too painful.
00:54Thank God I'm funny because what the f*** would I do with all this?
01:00This is not your grandpa's cancer documentary.
01:03If you thought having cancer sucked, try eating your own balls in front of 1,500 people in an auditorium.
01:10You're going to wish to God you had brain cancer.
01:12I don't think I can get away with that.
01:13I know, but we got...
01:14Hey, you've had f***ing cancer, you can get away with any motherf***ing thing.
01:18It's really an awful thing.
01:18The through line to this whole project is, how do you joke about cancer?
01:22So I have to ask you, how do you joke about cancer?
01:26However the f*** I want.
01:28Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
01:29Ha ha ha ha ha!

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