Vad var betydelsen av orden som skrivits av Oliver på reklambrädet?

Det är en linje från ett band i Mike Mills " Människor " samling som rapporterats i en intervju i Får inte panik :

At one point in the film, Oliver sprays in giant 3ft lettering "You make me laugh but it's not funny" onto a blank billboard, echoing a phrase on one of your Humans brand ribbon designs. It looks like you had a lot of fun with that, similarly the illustrations Oliver creates in the film...

It’s the line from the ribbon yes! That’s part of the crisis thing; for a long time it didn’t look as though I’d be able to make the film, so when it was green lit I put all these things that only I can do into it, my Humans collection, the graffiti I did and the drawings (especially the firework drawings). I felt like “this is my last film” or “this is the film I’m never going to get to do”, so when it went ahead I wanted to put as much into it as I could. As it took me five years to do the film, I started researching fireworks for Beginners and I got really into drawing them. I did a book on them for Nieves and that was published, and the slow process of the film kept going in the background. The same for another project where I hand drew a thousand rainbows and researched Gilbert Baker and the original 1978 Gay Pride flag; all the research set off these independent projects and I included these in there too, sort of like a ripple effect. There’s a lot in the film.

På grund av detta svar verkar det inte som om det finns nödvändigtvis någon koppling till resten av filmen, bara att regissören försökte ta med mycket av sin egen konst. Med det sagt har jag inte sett filmen, så det kan säkert finnas andra tankar om det.

Det här är bandet i en bild:

Texten visas på det blå bandet, men det verkar ändras något:

... u to know I don't think it's funny you make me laugh but I want you to know..