Adversity creates comedy.
You have to have a sense of humor about life to get through it.
Being nice can be funny. A lot of my jokes are like, 'Let me take a bad situation and try to put the best spin on it.'
Maybe there is something specifically Scandinavian that comes out of the long, dark winters - you have to learn to laugh at misery, in a way.
That's how to make a stand-up comedian: You take a person who is uncomfortable and try to squirrel their way out of it through humor.
I'm not someone who shies away from darkness being funny. I think that life is very dark at times, and there are things that are very funny about that.
It's always good to take something that's happened in your life and make something of it comedically.
The embarrassment of a situation can, once you are over it, be the funniest time in your life. And I suppose a lot of my comedy comes from painful moments or experiences in life, and you just flip them on their head.
I can find the worst thing in the world funny. My humour is dark. If I'm talking about the worst situations in my life, it's like a comedy - you can laugh at my pain.
There's only so many ways you can cope with being in dire means, and one way is humour.
