Photo contributed Carole Deyoe performs at the Funny Farm in Broadalbin in the fall of 2005.

Comic Carole Deyoe must have been listening when radio personality Garrison Keiller said, “Nothing bad ever happens to a writer, it’s all material.” A native of Caroga Lake and pharmacist at Palmer’s Pharmacy in Johnstown, Deyoe has taken the jagged edges of life like a bout with cancer and scleroderma and made jokes of them. Referring to her mastectomy, Deyoe simply chants the song from PBS TV’s “Sesame Street,” “One of these things is not like the other.” With a Web site that refers to her as “Pharmacist, Comedian, Carnivore,” Deyoe manages to juxtapose the mundane and bizarre in order to dig a laugh out of the darkness that comes into her life. “I went to the Funny Farm on my 40th birthday to watch an open mic and said, ‘I could do that for five minutes,’” she said. “It took me a year to get the material together and the nerve up to do it.” Deyoe said she had done public speaking in the past and presented at pharmaceutical conferences using humor with no problem.