Well, for one thing, by making too many crude jokes in one of Mozart's most serious comedies.
This French-Belgian movie is a serious romantic comedy with surreal touches.
The two hours included a mix of the serious, standup comedy and nightclublike production numbers.
They were too private and too serious, if one can describe as serious the confused comedy of our lives.
It is a serious comedy about the deterioration of ingenuity and art.
Characters like these could form the basis of an unsettling evening of serious political comedy.
He is getting $5,000, as well as publication and a staged reading of the play, which he called "a serious comedy."
He's also an expert director of serious comedy that doesn't take itself too seriously.
Most of his writings are serious comedies, although their tone and fictional strategies may "muffle" things.
Maybe it was all a comedy, but it was a very serious comedy.