I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.

These provided commercial as well as critical success but left Dine unsatisfied. ISBN 978-0-9755662-0-6
John Coplans "New Paintings of Common Objects" Artforum November 1962. Jim Dine (born June 16 1935) is an American pop artist.

He is sometimes considered to be a part of the Neo-Dada movement.