Perelman thought the letters were naive and wildly comic, but far too desperate for his use.

Few wildly charismatic comic actors have had much luck crossing over to dramatic roles in movies.

The plays are at times wildly comic, and at times poignant in their portrayals of the relationships among six characters.

"I run a serious gamut and get wildly comic from time to time," Ms. Kaye said about the performance.

He never knew that his contribution to the movies would remain enduring and wildly comic.

A wildly comic novel set in New Orleans, posthumously published and winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

"Pas a Deux" is just as dizzying but wildly comic.

"Positively bristles with vibrant colors and a wildly comic sexual energy" wrote Marsha Kinder in Film Comment.

Yet it is the Beckett text, in his novels and in the earlier plays, that remains, at once profoundly bleak and wildly comic.

It was wildly comic at first, as though someone had planted him feet first in the soil and hoped he'd grow.