Molly Stark is excellent as Sadie Moskowitz, a mature student of healthy girth and a wonderfully comic flirtatious manner.

Victor Benedetti was a wonderfully comic Papageno.

Possibly most important is the screenplay by Raymond Briggs, who adapted his own novel and who has a wonderfully comic way of turning a cliche inside out.

The whole point about this absurd saga, however, is not so much the wonderfully comic detail but the fact that from start to finish it takes all the predictable twists and turns of your classic affair.

The protagonists in Charles Portis's wonderfully comic novels tend to be determined innocents.

It may be objected that I am taking far too earnest a view of a wonderfully comic fictional character.

During these years he also wrote and published "Hindoo Holiday," a wonderfully comic account of his five months in 1923 as private secretary to the eccentric Maharajah of Chhatarpur.

It also helps that we have two wonderfully comic central performances from Sophie Thompson as the hapless head of geography and Jonathan Keeble as the venal Dean.

In 1995 at the festival, she "was a wonderfully comic Mrs. Partlet" in the professional production of The Sorcerer.

A wonderfully comic novel about savvy Hollywood outsiders trying to get in - and to juggle their disastrous but funny love lives.