Theming a view of comments
Ok, I came up with some sort of solution, thanks to @clive.

function hook_preprocess_comment(&amp;$vars){
    if (isset($vars['view'])) { 
        $view = $vars['view'];

            if ($view-&gt;name == "my_view_name"){
            $vars['theme_hook_suggestion'] = 'comment__' . str_replace('-', '_', $view-&gt;name);
    }   
  }   
}


I tried to do $vars['theme_hook_suggestions'][] but those templates were never picked up.  Is it ok to directly set theme_hook_suggestion.

Really hope this helps someone else out there..