A comedian with a physical disability has the audience roaring with laughter. In a matter of moments, Josh Blue has everyone in the audience doubled over with laughter and gasping for air as they try to catch their breath. Watch the short but absolutely hysterical clip.

Everyone likes and appreciates someone who can take a joke and make light of themselves, who doesn’t take everything seriously. Who wants to be around someone who is all business, all the time and unable to crack a smile? No one wants to be around that guy.

Self-deprecating humor can and often does reduce and even remove tension in situations where people are unsure how to react or respond. Making fun of oneself helps others know and understand that this or that subject is not off limits and that they do not take themselves too seriously. Josh expertly used self-deprecating humor to hilarious effect, incorporating his disability into his act.

In the clip posted on YouTube, Josh begins by stating that he does have cerebral palsy and then mentions the reactions he gets if he doesn’t immediately address his condition. He also adds that giving his perspective as someone who is disabled is all he has ever known. However, he does state that he attempted to provide insight from a different point of view at some point during his stand-up career, but he admits it didn’t go too well.

Later in the clip, Josh has the studio audience in hysterics with several hilarious and witty jokes about a piece of jewelry he wears that may or may not have magical, otherworldly abilities.

For a short, four-minute clip, Josh packs in the jokes and has everyone in the audience and, likely, anyone who watches the clip laughing silly. If he is this funny in a short clip, I can only imagine how hysterical his entire stand-up routine is.

Proverbs 17:22 “A glad heart makes a healthy body, but a crushed spirit makes the bones dry.”