# No laughing matter, but still funny. Mike McCready and Chron's

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 24, 2003, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-laughing-matter-but-still-funny-mike-mccready-and-chrons/177288 "2003-05-24T21:08:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![FallenAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@FallenAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallenAngel)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2003, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-laughing-matter-but-still-funny-mike-mccready-and-chrons/177288/1 "2003-05-24T21:08:41Z")

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Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready has come out as being a long-time sufferer of Chron’s disease, which is a serious stomach disorder that causes severe and near-spontaneous diarrhea among other problems.

[http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=769&e=16&u=/nm/music\_pearljam\_dc](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=769&e=16&u=/nm/music_pearljam_dc)

He went public to show other suffers that you can have a life and career despite the affliction, which I thought was pretty cool of him.

However, relating an experience while touring with the Rolling Stones got me into a full-blown laugh fit:

“It was our first show with them,” McCready continues. “Five minutes before we went on, I went up to (Pearl Jam frontman) Eddie (Vedder) and I said, 'Look man, can we play ‘Sometimes’? – which is a slower song that I’m not really on. I was in pain. I went running offstage looking for a bathroom, and there wasn’t one. Then, all of a sudden, there was one. It was a honeybucket. I heard my band play that song from inside a portable toilet!”

I will refrain from all the “no wonder PJ sounds like crap” jokes, but I thought McCready’s announcement was both cool and amusing. Just wanted to share.

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**Author:** ![FallenAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@FallenAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallenAngel)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2003, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-laughing-matter-but-still-funny-mike-mccready-and-chrons/177288/2 "2003-05-24T21:09:53Z")

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Perhaps even more amusing is my apparent inability to spell Crohn’s correctly. Oops.