1) Comedy intro 2) Comic beginning 3) Comic intro 4) Comic introduction 5) Comic lead-in 6) Comic like Chaplin 7) Comic opening 8) Comic preceder 9) Comic starter 10) Comical introduction 11) Comical lead-in 12) Comico- opposite 13) Kind of comic 14) Lead-in to comic 15) One kind of comic 16) Opposite of comico- 
Latin, meaning: seriously. 
seriously.