We leave the front door looking for joy and jollity; we reach the cinema to be greeted by strangely-dressed persons shrieking 'Trick or treat?' Addams Family Values is no treat and could well be investigated under charges of trickery.
Children love it, but it is not the kind of thing that comes easily to your average up-tight Englishman. For large parts of the day you can get away from such jollity, though it still tends to pop up unexpectedly.
His jollity is calmly measured.
In Downing Street the appearance of a comic junior like Mr Hogg can be an occasion of some jollity.
It's easy to make the action too broad, but this cast, which kicked up its heels a bit more than most, just added jollity and didn't go too far.
The song explaining the function of the Thrift Club seems a distant descendant of 'Pass it along' from Bernstein's Candide, but opts for bland jollity without any bite. The same might be said of the whole show.