People process pain differently. My family, we were pretty humorous about things that went on.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We've all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we've all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that's a gift - to you and your audience.
Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can.
I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism.
All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release.
Writing humour certainly involves pain. A sitcom is 6 months of writing pain!
Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others' discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it's funny.
Pain is funnier than love.
My comedy comes from pain. I can't stand to see someone hurting.
I grew up in a family that was very barbed and difficult, and there was a lot of humor. None of it was painless humor. All of it was at someone else's expense. It was kind of always about power.