Along the way, there are comic interludes, some interpolated by the dhalang.

The dramatic scripts of the 1950s usually feature at least one comic interlude with Alexander to lighten the tone.

The movie was more serious than others in the series, being basically a drama with comic interludes.

In a comic interlude, each of the clowns pursues Zerbinetta.

Often, in medieval drama, the sins provided a comic interlude, as they do here.

However, most scholars today consider the comic interludes, whoever wrote them, an integral part of the play.

The dance is a comic interlude, quite short and making no great demands on technique.

I was going to tell you when we had this comic interlude.

A comic interlude explores their fruitless attempts to have a child.

These comic interludes are probably intended to provide the reader with some light relief from the otherwise dark and serious themes of the book.