2009-04-20

A man sits at a desk holding a telephone receiver, talking to someone on the line. He says: "I wouldn't do that. Why? Imagine your mother - crying, lonely, vulnerable. Along comes a strong young man with a reassuring voice. 'I'm so sorry for your loss. Let me hold you. Mmm. That's right. It's okay to cry.'" A bold caption beneath reads: "Our hotline prevented 100% of suicides." The joke: a suicide-hotline worker talks a caller out of it by describing how, after the caller's death, a seductive young man would comfort and seduce the grieving mother. In the votey aftercomic, a close-up shows the same man smiling on the phone, adding: "If only there were some way to come to terms with your son's death. Some SEXY way."