As Rodrigo Borgia he is comical in his self-regard and foppishness, ordering villages to be stripped of chattals or his enemies slayed before sinking back weakly into his papal throne, fingering the edges of his golden crown mumbling that God is verily moving within him.
Playing the supposedly less attractive friend to "The Hawk" Dustin Hoffman (also hilarious) his half of a struggling songwriting act is so funny and oddly poignant that the moment he opens his mouth to talk, or simply, breath through it, he's comical.
He admitted it was comical that the Polish Monika had had to stay at home finishing her masters in psychoanalysis, while he gallivanted around Poland with his mates.
Something happened to the man's body when he sang that was comical and almost frightening.
He said the figure of £80,000 was "comical" and he would never try to get that much money from Middlesbrough.
Shm00p, one of the leaders of Rustle League, told me, "We're not trying to cause harm to the guy, but, just, the shit he was saying — it was comical to me".
Surely they know Ullrich's history and tendencies, but their fixation on what would, but did not happen, was comical: He has to attack, they said.
It was comical, he just happened to be right in front of me.
Which is why Donald Trump — if he wasn't so dangerous he'd be comical.
