John Oliver
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And its main processing technique was often comedy.
And my granddad was a really, really funny guy.
A very odd man.
I loved jokes.
It's just how you survive.
Gallows humor, right?
And so it's the only thing that's ever made sense for me.
It's the only way I've ever processed the world is through laughs.
At his funeral, I did... Granddad's funeral.
Yeah.
I wanted it to be funny.
Yeah.
Because it felt like for this...
this event isn't funny.
This is no reflection of who he was that in many ways, in my mind as a kid, he was the guy that taught me how to misbehave because he knew it would be funny.
Like you sitting at a table, he's like saying, just bang your cutlery like this.
And like two seconds later, I'm in trouble and he's laughing.
You're like, Oh, I like the sound that came out of that mouth.
I've caused a big problem in this room, but this guy's just chuckling to himself.
Oh, why do I need to get a little bit more of that?