The farcical anti-climax: The holiday spirit might also have been responsible for an aspect of the comic plot that can seem bewildering to modern audiences.

I don't know how you take someone like that and move a comic plot in a movie by being jovial.

A comic plot might be set upon a theological allegory and then refracted again through an unreliable narrator.

But he also loved his country's opéra-comique tradition, with its songs and dances and convoluted comic plots.

What could be a comic plot is earnestly recounted, and in the course of it Elizabeth Cole goes through some very hard times.

The legends of Ichchadhari Nag have been used as a plot basis for many comic plot and stories.

Technically, a Spieloper is an opera with a comic plot and light, pleasant music, differentiating it from more serious opera.

It pretends to have a comic plot, but that's just a shabby excuse for the brothers to hack up naked women.

"Lem had a bigger comic plot, more complicated, more action, which is ironically what they've gone back to - bigger, more physical comedy."

Here, even the famous credo of uncrushability by a mere comic plot comes across as somewhat comically crushed.