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The first thing that I learned - and I understood it at a really young age - was that I could get a laugh. Really early. Because my mother and father are funny.

I grew up with an extremely funny dad, and my mom is super funny.

I like discovering stories where I'm laughing and I'm learning. It's like, 'How was I never taught that in school?'

My mother is very funny. She is from a village; she has a typical village kind of humour. Often she says a lot of things she herself isn't aware is a punch line.

My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my parents.

When I was younger, my sister thought it was funny to pretend to punch me in the face because my mom was concerned about my teeth falling out. They were loose for a long time, and she knocked out my teeth.

My mum has always been quite free-spirited, and she has taught me a lot. I think that is probably why I have the sort of mind that I do.

My mum passing away wasn't funny, but that funeral and what I went through, the things that happened, looking back at it, there were funny moments. You have to be strong enough to look back at it, to sit and assess the situation.

When I was young, I learned very early on that I could make my mother laugh. And that was one of the greatest sounds I ever heard.

My parents were very funny - they didn't know it. But they were. They were actually sharing an IQ.