[He chuckled, taking a long pull from his mead.]

If you want comedic relief, I could recount to you some story of adventuring with the Warriors Three. Fandral alone fulfills the role, though Volstagg often provides it in equal measure.

[Though something akin to sadness crosses his expression for a moment at the thought of them. They may not have been his biggest fans, and he may have treated them poorly, but they had been the closest things he'd had to friends, and now they were gone...along with his home.]