Stand-up-style comic riffs and deadpan hipster banter keep interrupting the corrosively bleak narrative.

Yet their comic riffs are so accurate that they show up the others around them.

Ms. Schiff says in an escalating comic riff.

The comic riffs on family tensions in both acts are overextended and not all that fresh.

But Ms. Gramp's comic riff underscored a larger reality.

(Yes, we've heard, those comic riffs are like jazz.)

A tall untitled work from 1987 might be a ruefully comic riff on one of Giacometti's anorexic figures.

Taped just a few hours before broadcast, they are the only entertainment programs that can do comic riffs on the same day's events.

The McCoys provide a looping comic riff on a slasher film cliché: a man fleeing through a house.

Critics love the child's comic riffs but lament that the narrator's voice often sounds more like a middle-age man's than a 9-year-old girl's.