"Standing apart" is a time-honored comic tradition.

It's really about the futility of resisting an antic comic tradition that seems destined to outlast the royal family.

In movie comedies, of course - and in the older comic tradition from which their conventions derive - settling down is every bachelor's fate.

This was typical for the Flemish comic tradition, as with Spike and Suzy.

It was published in 1931, and it tracked our comic traditions through three centuries, from frontier shenanigans to urban modernism.

The films' humour was in the British comic tradition of the music hall and seaside postcards.

The Dutch have a distinct comic tradition as well.

Cinderella's grotesque Stepsisters virtually stole the show; following an old comic tradition, these parts were played by men.

German cinema has never been known for the richness and variety of its comic tradition.

The world Mr. Kring comes from seems almost antithetical to the comic traditions.