After this comical entry, the problems of a sweep's life are soon apparent.
These attempts to offer "something for everyone" become, at the extremes, more comical than instructive, more corrosive than corrective.
The problem though is that the ragga vocal is extremely unconvincing and comes across as merely comical and absurd.
Dances could be serious or comical, represent passions or moods, depict characters or abstract geometrical patterns.
The idea, of course, was to make the victim comical rather than pitiful.
In the context of this set of new images, the slightly comical image of a camel sits uneasily with the overarching protest theme.
The carer asked whether he had any money, which they all found highly comical, and giggled.
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.
