Epicharmus of Kos and Phormis are reported as having been among the first to invent comic fables.

At this point, "Jack and Sarah" becomes a lighthearted comic fable in which Jack is gently but firmly forced to grow up.

And instead of looking for psychological continuity in this perplexing study of decadence, hypocrisy and corruption, Ms. Zimmerman accepts its face value as a comic fable.

But the humor is both too oblique and too mild-mannered for the movie to cohere as a modern comic fable.

So was another little foreign film, the Australian-made "Babe," a comic fable about a pig who yearns to be a sheepdog.

The title character in Aki Kaurismaki's lovely new comic fable, "The Man Without a Past," certainly does his share of suffering.

Written as a dark, comic fable, the story concerns an advertising executive, Harry Joy, who briefly 'dies' of a heart attack.

It is, instead, an amiable comic fable, acted with skill by nearly everyone but especially by the members of its star-studded supporting cast.

Shearman and Pearson rated the episode five stars out of five, and described it "as [a] delightful ... comic fable".

Fools is a comic fable by Neil Simon, set in the small village of Kulyenchikov, Ukraine (Russian Territory), during the late 19th century.