It is written in a deliberately bad way for comic effect.
The music, like the writing in the books themselves, is morose for comic effect.
Certain computer games have taken the idea of the boss key and used it to comic effect.
Butt I'm sure it was only done for comic effect.
His voice was actually not bad, even with exaggeration for comic effect.
Most of the questionable dialogue was used for comic effect.
It's like one of those radio shows they used to listen to as children, with comic sound effects when the doors opened.
Irony is often used in literature to produce a comic effect.
However, it is possible that this was done for comic effect.
In any other situation it would have had a comic effect.