It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

In this line, Jackie Mason uses hyperbole to satirize modern health anxiety and the culture of constant diagnosis. The joke hinges on a reversal: instead of aiming for health, people are portrayed as inevitably “having something,” so the only remaining choice is to select a condition that suits one’s identity or lifestyle. It pokes fun at medicalization (ordinary discomforts reframed as illnesses), the proliferation of health advice, and the way ailments can become conversational currency or even a form of self-definition. The humor is dark but pointed: it suggests that the pursuit of perfect wellness can become so obsessive that sickness feels like the default state.