Possible Clues:

• What featured in comedy and unusually sad picture?
• Missile in slapstick
• Slapstick item in sad picture isn't right
• Stage prop that requires a due script to be rewritten
• *Coconut dessert
• Crook is captured -- a feature of pantomime?
• Confection that can get all over your face
• Rich dessert
• What's thrown up as direct hit?
• Is captured roughly in creme brulee