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I'd never heard of Funny Business until one of last year's stand-ups, Martin Loxley, fingered me in the bar. Naturally I was taken aback, but thought I would sit on it for a few days and contemplate his enthusiastic delivery.

'OK, I'll do it'

'Fantastic' came the reply. Then the 'oh no what have I done feeling' descended, and once I'd said yes, it became too late to say no and now I'm at the 'seemed like a good idea at the time' stage.

But.. on the serious note, I am a recently retired GP having worked full time in the health service for 32 years and in that time have seen a great number of people and their circumstances, varying from sad to inspirational and from tragic to hilarious. The term 'laugh or cry' was particularly pertinent to our work.

Weston Park Hospital and its staff, helped us to help patients and their families. It continues to offer help and hope, so that those with a cancer diagnosis can be offered best management from this centre of excellence.

I recently lost a dear friend to cancer. He told me all the jokes I know. If I wasn't doing Funny Business this year, he would be.

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