But I hoped that Huck's sympathetic and gently comical voice might make it bearable.
The Nazi era seen through the eyes of a diabolic child who decided not to grow up – a demon figure with a sharp, wild, comical voice.
On the other hand, the audio received a mediocre response, despite the comical voice acting.
It's hard to tell how affectionately or otherwise these are intended, although you occasionally get the sinking feeling that Ariel Pink is signposting those that are supposed to be parodies by decorating them with wacky noises or singing them in one of his comical voices, of which he seems to have a bottomless supply.
Indeed, "Laugh-In" hired to him play a character he had already created, and continued to play in various ways, in various venues, for many years afterward: the announcer as comic, the comical announcer, a serious voice that didn't take itself too seriously.
"You doin' all right, you chillin'?" he asked us in that comical alley-cat voice.
And he called her an angel-innocent and a clever daft thing, in a comical, mincing, falsetto voice.
Dean has a comical, Betty Boop-ispeakinging voice, which will be featured in the upcoming animated film "Ice Age: Continental Drift".
He too found Oh's bear voice comical, adding: "I laughed when Cristina attempted to do her voice for Mr. Bear because you knew that she didn't know what she was doing".
Of course, it is in part the pain of human voices (comical, sad, troubled, vulnerable, vehement, libidinous) that makes the dream songs still edgy and strange fifty years after they first appeared.
A word on words: Nance's profuse, lyrical, comical, mercurially apostrophizing voice-over, in its archly ironic gravity, reminds me of Ernest Hemingway's complaint about Herman Melville's loftily rhetorical diction (I posted here a couple of years ago on the subject).
