He’s a popular comedian who’s regularly on TV screens.
And in a new interview, David Walliams, 51, said he feels ‘in a happy place’ as he insisted it’s important to have a purpose, but admitted ‘some stress’ come with always trying to be creative.
The father-of-one – who shares son Alfred, nine, with ex Lara Stone – opened up on his attitude towards happiness and overcoming adversity, confessing that: ‘camp humour has always been a great weapon.’
Real talk: David Walliams, 51, says he feels ‘in a happy place’ as he insisted it’s important to have a purpose, but admitted ‘some stress’ come with always trying to be creative
In the latest episode of podcast Live Well, Be Well, David mused: ‘Happiness is sort of fleeting, it’s something you catch. You know, because I do think there’s a sort of tendency to think oh, well, you know, I should be happy ALL THE TIME.
‘It feels like something that you catch in a moment, doesn’t it? And you just realise, ‘Oh, I’m really happy’ It’s a really nice feeling, isn’t it? But it is NOT necessarily all the time.
‘I mean, being content is one thing, isn’t it? I think that to be at sort of peace, in some way.
‘But you know, for me, I’m always sort of striving, so I’m always trying to be creative, I am always try to do things and there’s, you know, some stress comes with that.
‘So things frustrate me and stuff, of course. There’s moments of those things, but generally I feel in a happy place.’
How it is: The father-of-one – who shares son Alfred, nine, with ex Lara Stone – opened up on his attitude towards happiness and overcoming adversity
He continued: ‘Purpose, I think is really important and you can have it, it doesn’t have to be workdays it?
‘It be looking after you kid, keeping a home, cooking a meal, working for a charity but with no purpose whatsoever, I think people start to unravel a bit.’
On diversity, David praised humour as the route to coping, as he explained: ‘I think comedy is a good way of dealing with adversity I think, and that often comes out of difficult situations and it’s a way sometimes you know.
‘You hear people being shouted at in the street and shouting something back.
‘Like, gay friends of mine said, sometimes somebody would shout something horrible ‘oh you queer’ or something like that over the street and then they go ‘That’s how I started’. Actually camp humour has always been a great weapon.’
Keep it camp! On diversity, David praised camp humour as the route to coping
The BGT star admitted of people-pleasing, that ‘you just can’t worry about it’ because it’s not possible to please everyone.
David said: ‘You are doing a theatre show, and you’ve got two and a half hours, right, win everyone over and I just think I want to get everyone one of you laughing, having the best time of your life.
‘But some people, you just didn’t like it. And you can’t worry about it, you just can’t worry about it. You just can’t please everyone.’
Don’t worry, be happy! The BGT star admitted of people-pleasing, that ‘you just can’t worry about it’ because it’s not possible to please everyone
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