He cut the price of Mr James's replica jerseys to $17.41 in homage to the birth year of Benedict Arnold, a famous American traitor, and published an open letter (comically rendered in Comic Sans font) in which he "personally guaranteed" that Cleveland would win a title before Mr James did.
Leigh and Minghella were nominated for best screenplay, with Leigh an early favourite for his story about the comically strained relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan.
Clegg's warm-up act was Lib Dem president Sal Brinton, who reinforced the sense that this election is becoming a comically unedifying turf war over meaningless bits of vocabulary.
I went to St Mary's and they were comically bad.
However hard Ramos tried – and he tried pretty hard, handballing and kicking and pushing and protesting and flying in, getting wilder with every one, a mental soundtrack of cymbal crashes accompanying each tackle – Montero stubbornly, and comically, refused to pull out the card.
The environment in which Thorgeson did much of his work now seems comically old-fashioned, not just in terms of the glorious canvas provided by the 12-inch vinyl record, but the people with whom he had to deal.
The ferry chugged across the river, passing boats that were even more comically overloaded than ours.
This is a comically transparent attempt to kick the vow beyond the next election in the hope that the issue can then be fudged.
At points Morris dismantles his moves into comically crude elements - a ballerina's lift reduced to a series of bumpy hops.
Dazed and submerged comically in some mud, he sees God – who, in this film, is represented by a mean-tempered 11-year-old boy.
But they're those comically lardy simpletons in sports clothes who require two aeroplane seats each.
