Triumph's gag may be one of the best parts of Ms. Griffin's show, and Rosie O'Donnell, who throws Ms. Griffin a comic bit in one of her stories, also contributes.
And the collaborative nature of animation means that jokes can be tweaked and retweaked; each time someone touches a comic bit with a line, a way of walking, a nuance of voice, the comedy rings harder.
The first wonderful hour of the film was virtually a silent comedy a la Jacques Tati, with comic bits of business in a small community building and expanding and circling each other with increasing hilarity...until politics stepped in and ground the movie to a halt.
Some of his best comic bits of the past, like the re-enactment of a 1864 baseball game, make full use of his long limbs.
Like Garland, Mr. Wainwright is a natural clown and showman who deftly turned his many little flubs into endearing comic bits of business.
But as the song proceeds, the melody picks up speed and the lyrics becomes more and more ludicrous, comic bits of visual humor undercutting the seriousness of the tone of the music and images, until it ends in the church.
It's probably only a matter of five or 10 years ago that the trans community was viewed as a bit comic, a bit of a punchline.
Their show isn't so much a play as a series of comic bits, sketches and other oddities, almost none of which can be described without ruining the fun.
Bob Bryan made like Bob Hope and entertained the crowd with a couple of comic bits, heading a ball over the net after flubbing one shot and hugging a line judge after missing another.
The Spotify app features timely humor content like "Who Doesn't Love A Good Sex Scandall," a playlist of comic bits themed around the recent exploits of Anthony Carlos Danger Weinerer and other humiliated politicians.
