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Despite its mostly-dour outer demeanor, The X-Files handled comedy better than a lot of actual comedies; there might be a few duds in the show’s long list of less-serious cases, but the highlights—including Darin Morgan-penned classics like “Jose Chung’s From Outer Space” and “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose”—stand up pretty well against most of the “actual” comedy that was being produced for TV back in the 1990s. Gifted with a host of hilarious writers, and blessed with the low-key comic talents of David Duchovny, and especially Gillian Anderson, the show often delighted in puncturing its own aura of self-seriousness with an episode reminding you of just how weird and silly its two leads’ lives could be.