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December 15 movie: God Said, Ha! Julia Sweeney's one woman show about the year in which her brother was diagnosed with terminal cancer, her entire family moved into her house to care for him, and then she was also diagnosed with cancer. It sounds godawful depressing but it's actually really funny and touching. The funniest part is when they have to give the brother a shunt in his head, and the doctor persuades him by saying that all his patients who have shunts love them. After which the brother goes around saying "I love my shunt!" all the time, and when they watch ER he yells at the screen "Give him a shunt! He needs something to love!" Also funny is her acknowledgement of how awful and unfunny the Pat character became, and how everyone (including her) wished Pat would go away unfortunately before it did.