"Heavens no. I'm a wizard, Marian, I have a certain gravitas to uphold." Merlin rolled the R and said the word with the pomp it deserved. He held Marian at arm's length and looked her up and down again. "You look well enough, but your spirit seems heavy. Hopefully a few chuckles tonight won't go amiss."
Hopefully the local comedy content would live up to expectations. There were a couple of leprechauns doing sketch comedy later, so hopefully the crowd would be pissed enough to find that as entertaining as Merlin had.