Elsewhere in town, at the Edinburgh festival, his compatriot Chris Gethard deploys comedy to address his own suicidal impulses.
There is a reason why the men of Monty Python and the various gagmeisters from "Saturday Night Live" deploy their comedy in sketch-sized doses.
This week's poem, Lament for Stinie Morrison, is tragedy rather than comedy, deploying a semi-cumulative form, faintly reminiscent of The House that Jack Built, to build up a blaze of outrage and regret.
Sure, the usual caveat applies: The comedy deploys a specific sense of humor that may not resonate with you.
Director Kim Hyun-seok, who until now has worked chiefly in romantic comedy, deploys visual effects and low-key performances in an efficiently told, character-driven exploration of immortality, hubris and human folly.
Love at first sight, what if, being in love with the idea of love: the gang's all here, every romantic comedy maneuver deployed since "Annie Hall".
In the past dozen years, he has mostly got stuck in a loop of romantic comedies, deploying that low, indolent drawl of his as a tool of come-hither charm; it's no less effective in "Killer Joe," but the snares in his voice are now baited with money and lust.
Wilson is appallingly miscast in this depressing middle-aged guys' comedy; unable to deploy any of his trademarked lazy-smoothie-achiever style.
I think comedy should be deployed.
Suaveness becomes the Allies' secret weapon when Harrison deploys his rakish charm; the comedy and suspense mesh under Carol Reed's confident direction.
