Also, I think having that comic gene kind of makes you look at things in a different way. If you take yourself so seriously, eventually you end up one of those people having a 'Do Not Disturb' sign on their lives. You see them drawing the curtains and they don't even realize that they've kind of drifted off somewhere.
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings. [Lat. , O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora caeca!]