Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives.
“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.”
“But he knew people and he was head writer for Have Gun Will Travel, and if you took those early Star Treks that we did and put us in a western wardrobe and put us on wagon train going west, we can say the same lines.”