Nor can we attribute his life as a funnyman to that other launch pad for comedians, the need to keep the playground bullies at bay by making them laugh.
On Saturday the funnyman featured in the impromptu "Iranian dancing" finale of Irish-Iranian stand-up Patrick Monahan's show at the Gilded Balloon.
TV funnyman David Walliams has revealed he has tried to kill himself several times during his life-long battle with depression.
Man of the hour ever since his brilliant turn in last year's Bridesmaids, the Irish funnyman can do no wrong at the moment it seems, and here, as the boozy half-wit musician with a heart of gold, he brings a dry wit and boyish silliness to an elsewhere fluffy script.
The funnyman added: "You know, the whole Boris bike thing is crazy.
The 35-year-old actress - who has a three-year-old daughter Olive and another girl, aged around eight months, with spouse Sacha Baron Cohen - was amazed to be refused alcohol and taken to a special room at the first showbiz event she attended with the 39-year-old British funnyman, who she has been in a relationship with since 2002.
The Round Chapel, Hackney, London Church isn't just for carols, with screenings, from behind the pulpit in this wonderfully atmospheric chapel in east London, of Elf, featuring funnyman Will Ferrell, and It's a Wonderful Life, the black-and-white family classic starring Jimmy Stewart.
The Little Britain funnyman, 41, poked fun at the TV mogul's age, career and even his new racehorse as they watched potential acts for the forthcoming series.
It just looks more ironic on him as he makes his living as a funnyman".
Leading the odds is that other beeb funnyman Graham Norton, though Pandora rather favours the curve-ball that is Alan Carr.
The emotions are voiced by some of America's leading comedians: Parks and Recreation's Amy Poehler plays Joy; funnyman Bill Hader is Fear, stand-up Lewis Black is Anger and stars of the US's version of The Office, Phyllis Smith and Mindy Kaling, play Sadness and Disgust.
