But it's all ludicrous in the first degree, and a laughable relief to be able to take a break from some of the distressing real news we're getting exposed to the rest of the week.
By the third performance, what remained between the new dead spots was still in the main mildly ludicrous, unpunctuated by the relief of a good guffaw.
The resident hospital pigeons provide light relief – the ludicrous displays of the males to the largely indifferent females are visible in animated silhouette along the roofline.
The Lib Dem talks with the Tories moved remarkably quickly and smoothly, certainly far faster than equivalent negotiations elsewhere in Europe, and they gave both party leaders the opportunity to jettison their party's most ludicrous policies, to their evident relief.
It comes as a relief when they finally slope off the dancefloor, defeated, and revert to type on Under Pressure: the kind of ludicrous, brilliant, lyrically baffling song that no other band would have thought of recording.
