If you are currently suffering from hemorrhoids you probably can't believe that anyone can see a lighter side! At this time, these embarrassing, rather disgusting, very uncomfortable and often painful swollen veins can only be all bad! When you're suffering with indignity and discomfort, being the butt of a hemorrhoid joke is just adding insult to injury. It is said that you know you're "middle aged" when hemorrhoid jokes stop being funny.

However the following are just some lighter side stories that may help you feel better or, at least, make you understand that your affliction has a wide variety of interest and that you are in the company of many famous people.

The Hemorrhoids are a rock band. Imagine the introduction "ladies and gentlemen put your hands - er, cheeks - er, no, hands together for the pride of Lawrence, Kansas, The Hemorrhoids!" Although their mothers must be proud I'm sure that when you listen to them on YouTube, and depending on your age and "musical" appreciation, it will be a toss up on whether the band or the condition is more painful.

We would all love to be a successful stand up comedian. They look so smooth up there on stage delivering joke after joke and getting laugh after laugh. They make it look so easy and seem to be so relaxed. Of course there are those who are not so good and even those who completely bomb out on stage. Audiences really aren't nice people when you don't deliver what was promised. So a good stand up comedy routine is worth it's weight in gold.

However, it is not just enough to have a good routine you also have to be able to deliver the material so that you get laughs. That is what you are paid to do and if there are no laughs forthcoming you wont get invited back. So what is it that makes a good comedian. There have been many famous names in the past and a few good ones about now so what is it that they all have to make them so successful. Some are just naturals. They can get up on stage, be as cool and natural as anyone and deliver line after line because they have their own natural style that is funny.

Others struggle on stage. They are never at ease at least not until the laughs start to roll. They have to learn routines and methods and spend a long time trying to get it right. It just does not come easy to them. Wouldn't it be great to be able to just get up there and start talking. Your style is naturally funny and you just have a heap of stuff that is relevant to every situation and is naturally funny. You can get up any time in front of anybody with no preparation and just do it. How good would that be.