A woman escaped death when a bullet shot by her jealous husband lodged in her breast implant. And I almost lost a thumb.

The line juxtaposes a sensational news item with a trivial personal mishap to create deadpan, self-mocking humor. By placing “And I almost lost a thumb” after a story of a woman surviving a gunshot because of a breast implant, the speaker highlights the absurdity of treating disparate events as equivalent “headlines.” The comedy depends on incongruity and on the persona of a wry commentator who undercuts melodrama with anticlimax. It also lightly satirizes media consumption: extraordinary violence and bizarre medical happenstance are presented in the same breath as the speaker’s minor injury, implying a culture where everything becomes content and perspective is easily distorted.