Moore's own comical experience being interviewed for Vogue magazine offers a valuable lesson in handling the press.
De Waal has a knack for being comical: midway through our interview, she gets up from her chair, hitches up her trousers and crouches to show me how she would get down to Leon's height when writing to better understand his viewpoint.
While comical guests had been interviewed on its news programs, NPR was not in the habit of producing comedy itself.
There's not much point in denying the similarities to Blur's Parklife: the producer (Stephen Street); the influences (XTC, Wire, the Jam), the comical Little Englander comments in interviews ("We just got fed up of all these dreadful bands coming over from abroad"); and the wry celebrations of the everyday ("Hold tight to your Red Stripe").
"I find their attack on the quality of QuesTec to be comical," Manfred said in a telephone interview, "given that the use of QuesTec as an evaluative tool was at their request".
Irwin was comical and candid during his 30-minute interview for the Breakfast With A Champion, as part of the 18th annual Toshiba Classic.
It does give you some sense of the sort of comical aspects of this, that Russert's original interview was literally a week after I'd been elected to the Senate, and I was already fielding questions about higher office.
Back in 1985, when promoting The Clash's Cut The Crap, Joe Strummer went to comical lengths to avoid discussing the album in interviews.
Observation and interviews suggested that Ladoo Lingam, the comical character who did not wash his hands in the skit, was perceived to be too disgusting in his habits by adult women in the early intervention villages.
A comical figure emerges in the unctuous developer Joseph Sitt, who does his interview in front of a statue of a horse.
