Words similar to comic-relief

Example sentences for: comic-relief

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A buddy specialist would have punched up the Qui-Gon Jinn/Obi-Wan Kenobi badinage, and a black dialogue specialist would have given the comic-relief character, Jar Jar Binks, a man-size dinosaur with pop eyes and a vaguely West Indian patois, something fresher than "Ex-squeeze me!"
The yucks come thick and fast until the motley, comic-relief crew starts getting blown away in the line of duty, and then it's time to get patriotic.
A writer catalogs the six phyla of screen aliens, which include "the small, gray, hairless, chinless, big-eyed waif" à la Close Encounters and "the comic-relief plush toy" such as Alf.