Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.
Well you can't be depressed and sad 24 hours a day.
The last person they expected to connect with a screenplay was the comedic...
I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that I was just interested in the concepts involved.
