Comic and comical are both clearly associated with comedy; magic and magical both stem from magic.
And the mime scenes, in which many of the characters' conversations originally were carried out, are shortened or omitted because they now seem boring, awkward or even comical.
The muleteer's music goes on to aliment a feast of subtle variation throughout the opera that cannot always be explained by a vocabulary of legible signs and comical inversion.
They described the phrase "to do the needful" as "obsolescent", "clumsy", "really comical", "lower class" and "faulty".
He was so comical we had to hold our sides laughing.
Thus, the comical and the critical aspects of parody go hand in hand.
To a young fourteen-year-old's ear it is just comical.
Given the idiosyncracies of this music, it could easily have been treated as a comical break from the daily round of the interpreters' concert schedule.
