This has deliberate comic overtones - sort of a satire.

A perplexing 10-minute film with the comic overtones of "Jackass" served as Bernhard Willhelm's spring statement.

Earlier in the story Miss Pross' self-proclaimed Britishness has comic overtones.

Unfortunately, the Pearl cast never comes close to such depths, and the production never rises much above the level of a domestic melodrama with comic overtones.

To English ears," Billington continues, "Sidcup has faintly comic overtones of suburban respectability.

Mr. Dunn and Deborah Riley provide the comic overtones as they sit at the sides and comment on what they see before them.

"Alexander" was considered a dignified name that took on comic overtones when a black man bore it.

Apart from the comic overtones of this deception, there is a subplot related to alien invasion.

He has played this brute so often for the Coen brothers - with comic overtones - that we're unsure how seriously to take him.

And, anyway, bloomers have too many comic overtones to be taken seriously.