Like all Fable games, it has moments of true comedy and genuine emotion.
If by the end of it you feel your comedy button has not been pushed, head to Doug Fishbone's Joke Machine.
"Year-on-year it has attracted increasing numbers of visitors and has brought some of the greatest comedy performers in the world to our city, " he said.
Satire is an unfunny form of humor and it has an agenda that works against the comedy.
DirecTV thinks video streaming is eating away at the ratings of channels like MTV and Comedy Central, and it has a point.
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More recently it has become the accent of choice for comedy characters like Little Britain's Vicky Pollard and the villagers in comedy film Hot Fuzz.
Indeed the greatest service it has done is not to diplomacy, but to comedy.
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It also has a Golden Globe nomination for best musical or comedy series.
"It's been a while since an original, zany comedy has been on the marketplace, " says Rocco.
Out of that morass, we were given the gift of Fast Times at Ridgemont High , a socioeconomic study in the guise of a teen sex comedy that is more apropos to teens now than it has been at any time since its initial release.
It is an off-the-cuff social comedy in which he has allowed (encouraged?) the normally subtle Katrin Cartlidge to deliver a manic performance that is 200% over the top.
Yet this seriously crazed comedy is also a crazily serious disquisition on enslavement, and how it has been portrayed over the years and decades by slaves to Hollywood.
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Thus far this season, the show has charmed 14.8 million viewers per show, making it the top-rated comedy on the air.
Unsurprisingly, it has earned him a nomination at the Golden Globes for best actor in a musical or comedy - Scarlett Johansson and Tom Cruise have also been nominated for best dramatic actress in a comedy and best dramatic actor.
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If there really was a golden age of television comedy, it is due in no small part to the talent of David Croft, who has died at home in Portugal at the age of 89.
Gilliam, of course, has a wild visual imagination and an exuberant sense of character, but the comedy is so frenetic it quickly cancels itself out.
Indeed, it has far more in common with conceptual art or alternate-reality science fiction than with sketch comedy.
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"It's a very funny, very well made, mass-market comedy, which is well scripted and has an exotic location, " said Patrick Frater, chief executive of Film Business Asia.
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