Find a successful comedian, & you'll probably find 6 out of 10 times a really obtuse mind. I wouldn't call myself successful, but I did work the comedy circuit for about 10 yrs. Think about it, Lenny Bruce, Richard Prior (he didn't kill himself quickly but he did try & drug himself to death) & Robin Williams.
I can't think of any more at this time, but MOST if not all good comics live in a shell, which comics sometimes refer to as, "the sit-com life"! Everything we do is based upon, a laugh. Don't ask me why, I'm not a therapist!
Comics have a hard time understanding why you don't see the humour in everything in life YES! Even in death. I personally needed to get a lawyer to place a stipulation in my will, for my headstone to read, "See!
I told you I was sick!" NO it's NOT original, but my wife swore an oath that it would never get on my tombstone. If you let me I would "roll on" for ever, but, I better not, as I'm starting to feel depressed.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.