Superbly acted, sprawling and very funny, Kings and Queen constantly surprises us both by its emotional revelations and quite unexpected scenes like a visit by a ghost, a suicide, a hip hop performance in a group therapy session and a sudden, violent robbery.
"I watch it and go, 'Well, this is really f--king funny.' I wouldn't change anything right now, I think it's all working".
His tone may be more innately appealing than David Walker's, but Mr. Walker made a fine effect reprising the title role of the foppish, foolish king: both funny and flashy, with some impressive singing.
Other notable cast members: Cindy Katz, who plays Mozart's somewhat foolish but sexy wife, Constanze, and David McCallum, who is quite funny as the Hapsburg king, Joseph II, not a stupid man and, when he attends to a situation, often astute.
Leave it to the undisputed kings of funny basketball videos, The Basketball Jones, to come up with a way to liven things up.
Keen's now helmed three series of It Is Rocket Science for Radio 4 alongside king of the funny voices Peter Serafinowicz (whose involvement is practically a badge of guaranteed quality in itself).
Jon Lovitz however steals away with another movie, thanks to his droll and very funny turn as a mattress king looking to get into casinos.
After a few more adventures, Candide and Cacambo wander into El Dorado, a geographically isolated utopia where the streets are covered with precious stones, there exist no priests, and all of the king's jokes are funny.
Unquestionably the king of comic writing, and his new collection of essays, Calypso, is both funnier and more heartbreaking than pretty much anything out there.
MR. COLBERT grew up in Charleston, S.C., in what he calls a "humorocracy where the funniest person in the room is king".
