Kjellberg's mother, as The Washington Post noted in September, has gone on record as not being able to identify what made her son's work comical.
Even in the most desperate circumstances, when you might expect the two sides to make common cause, their attempts at working together are comical, or sad.
Nearby, overlooking a gallery of classically demure European modernist works, Red Grooms's clunky, comical homage "Chance Encounter at 3 A.M". fuzzes the line between working and not working.
Meanwhile, as Silicon Valley showoffs blow big budgets on madcap marketing campaigns and comical launches, scientists working on maglev continue to plug away quietly.
Among this exhibition's assorted paintings by unknown amateurs are works of comical ineptitude, off-beat invention and nutty, perverse or ridiculously banal imagery.
But it is the tension in the paintings themselves between the elevated beauty of fine art and the debased, yet often hard-to-resist beauty of kitsch that gives Ms. Yuskavage's work its comical, uncannily seductive allure.
His work is comical if not laugh-out-loud funny, though it's hard to say exactly why a pyramid made of green, plastic, quart-size fruit containers called "Mountain Home" (2004) is humorous.
Kalen's work is comical to look at, but ultimately he is exploring the conventional rules behind gender, fashion, and commerce.
He's worked with Cryer on comical musical shows like Rock & Droll and Men In Beige.
Or, in Pee Pee's view, "they probably think they have to make it comical to work".
