tragicomic

He has delivered a tragicomic moral blowtorch worthy of Swift.

The tragicomic futility built into these endless rounds of “What if?”

Yet beneath the gags and one-liners that pepper You Will Meet, a tragicomic pessimism is clearly obvious.

It is a tragicomic drama in three acts, each winding up with a coup de thtre, always the same and always foreseen.