Sentence examples for comic humour from inspiring English sources

On the level of the trivial, there was the rise of Tina Fey, her sophisticated comic humour the perfect antidote to Palin's nastiness.

As ever, he used blackly comic humour to undercut the terrifying denouement in which he is approached by salivating prisoners ("I'm scared / Some kids snuffed me cold and greased me where no one dared").

Sitting in a slaughterhouse as the sky rained fire, his life proved by a joke, Mr Vonnegut found the path that would define him for the rest of his life.His novels questioned the nature of existence and the purpose of life, often with blackly comic humour and fantastical political satire.

The title page of the first extant edition (1633) describes the play as a tragedy, but as TS Eliot observed nearly a century ago, it becomes more "intelligible" if one takes it "not as a tragedy … but as a farce", written in a tone of "serious, even savage comic humour".

For instance, the Illustrated London News praised the work and both Gilbert and, especially, Sullivan: "Sir Arthur Sullivan has eminently succeeded alike in the expression of refined sentiment and comic humour.

Like Joyce, Flaubert can be drily comic, but humour is dependent on a precise selection of words, registers and double meanings, so I had to take an irony geiger count of every sentence – whose "right" translation lurked just around the corner.

The book's daring deeds, fiendish villainy and comic-book humour may smack of cliché, but it is also the stuff of teenage dreams, here executed with pace and panache.

And, understandably, you can hear their echoes in the Pre New, the band formed by various ex-members of Earl Brutus a couple of years after Sanderson's death in 2008 – not least in their blackly comic sense of humour.

But the kind of people who do say "anorexic" to mean "really jolly slim" tend also to use bulimic as a synonym, possibly even with a very, very mild comic intent, the humour (I guess) proceeding from the hyperbole of the first eating-disorder reference being compounded by the lavish exaggeration of the second.

When I was in the army, my nickname was Billy after Billy the Fish, a cartoon character in a certain adult humour comic.

Shaffer's Guernsey characters step from the past radiant with eccentricity and kindly humour, a comic version of the state of grace.