The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.
A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal.
My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.