Expensive Haircut

The joke plays on the word 'haircut' to make a dark and ironic connection to chemotherapy, a treatment that often causes hair loss. It's funny because it uses a mundane concept, haircut, to deliver an unexpected, grim answer.

• Chemotherapy
• Haircut
• Cancer
• Cost
• Health
• Hair loss

• What do you call a mammal that has no hair? Cancer.
• Want one way to get a free haircut? Call the cancer hotline.
• Cancer jokes really grow on you--unlike the patients' hair.
• Someone walked into a cancer ward and asked for a skin fade.