They say men can never experience the pain of childbirth. They can... if you hit them in the goolies with a cricket bat for fourteen hours.

The joke riffs on a familiar cultural claim—often used to minimize women’s experiences—that men “can’t understand” childbirth pain. Brand flips it by granting men access to an equivalent sensation, but only through an absurdly specific, violent scenario. The humor comes from incongruity (a cricket bat, the slangy “goolies,” and the precise “fourteen hours”), while the underlying point is corrective: childbirth pain is not a vague discomfort but prolonged, intense, and embodied. The line also functions as feminist stand-up: it punctures complacent comparisons and re-centers women’s testimony through exaggeration and shock-comedy timing.