Does anyone remember which hollywood actor it was who described his film as "comedic"?

Ignorant actors have a large role to play in affecting language.

They are being interviewed and they don't know the word for something so, with the butter still ice cold in their mouths they invent a new one.

Then all the other actors copy them in an orgy of sycophantic reassurance.

Mr Cruise, it isn't "comedic", it's "comic".

And could everyone else stop copying him please.


(or whoever it was, though the first time I heard it, long before it became common, it was Tom Cruise who said it in an interview)