"It only hurts when I laugh" is a punchline of a joke which exists in numerous versions since at least 19th century. A typical setup is that someone badly hurt is asked "Does it hurt?" — "I'm fine. It only hurts when I laugh."Leon Rappoport, Punchlines: The Case for Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Humor, p. 83"The Joke Stops Here", Memphis Flyer
The phrase has been used as a title of various works:
It Only Hurts When I Laugh (album), by Jann Browne, 1991 It Only Hurts When I Laugh, an autobiography by Stan Freberg ('It Only Hurts When I Laugh...') in the correspondence of Stanisław Lem It Only Hurts When I Laugh!, a caught-on-camera series that aired on truTV from 2009 to 2011
See also Only When I Laugh (disambiguation) "It Only Hurts When I'm Laughing", a song by Mi-Sex It Only Hurts When I Cry It Only Hurts When I'm Breathing
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