* The ''Diabelli Variations'' are the comic high point in Beethoven's music, with spell-binding fugues and brilliant variations interspersed with hilarious parodies of bad music and the finger exercises of Johann Baptist Cramer.
* The "Turkish march" section of the Ninth Symphony is a rare bit of comic relief in an otherwise quite serious work. It comes directly on the heels of a big, climactic held chord in the chorus, quiet and almost grotesque in feel -- an excellent example of what some writers have called romantic irony.
* The Eighth Symphony is commonly regarded as his funniest symphony, with his incorrect modulations and sudden dynamic jumps--the finale even shows him lampshading his tendency to [[EndingFatigue overblow his codas]] by having it take up half of the movement.