This first part of Jolene's story is light, young, with touches of rueful comedy and hints of something starker.

The series has included bursts of rueful comedy in previous episodes, often from Richard Belzer, a cast member who is also a standup comic by trade and natural inclination.

Winston's attempts to make sexual contact are portrayed as a rueful waiflike comedy that verges on farce when one young man he picks up turns out to be a recruiter for the Unification Church.

Like Mr. Elyot's "My Night With Reg," this is a rueful and wittily written comedy about the desperate, droll longings of the terminally unattractive in a world of sexual plenitude.

The play, billed as a wry and rueful comedy, had its first engagement in London in 1990.

In A. R. Gurney's wry and rueful comedy, a staid, middle-aged Boston banker runs into a woman with whom he had a brief romance 30 years earlier and tries to rekindle the affair.

This mature, rueful comedy sets out to marry grief and gladness, and achieves it.

This rueful comedy has trouble moving its characters from one scene to another without signs of strain.

The Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips described the film as "a comedy rueful but tidy and safe", which sparked not much interest in him, and added that it is "a placid tale of impulses running wild."

Mr. Ivgi's sad-eyed, shaggy-browed Cohen is an endearing everyman whose movements carry a twinge of rueful comedy.