Screwball

The Coen Brothers often include screwball elements in a film which may not as a whole be considered screwball or even a comedy.

Film historians credit the emotional impact of the Great Depression as one reason for the screwball comedy's unplanned rise, and cite the 1934 films It Happened One Night as igniting a firestorm of inventive imitators.

Old-school Hollywood screwball comedies don't get much better or more iconic than It Happened One Night.

Previously, however, Keaton tended to star in straight-up, irreverent, or screwball comedies.

She changes speed and can throw a curveball and a screwball.

Starstruck is a screwball-comedy series that focuses on Jessie, a New Zealander in her 20s who lives in London, where she works at a cinema and as a nanny.

Sure, this film may be more screwball rom-com in its essence, but at its core, it’s still a spy movie.

Casting him as a bumbling fool in an acerbic screwball comedy like seems like a misread of Fonda's acting range, but the role valorizes the star's earnest screen persona as much, if not more so, than any other film.

Fans of this offbeat, supernatural screwball comedy are literally dying to see what the further adventures of the naughty bio-exorcist have in store.

Is that the most screwball moment you’ve had attending a ceremony?

Scarborough Players’ production of Screwball Comedy is now on stage at the Scarborough Village Theatre.

We may lack the equivalent of Silicon Valley’s galactically rich donor class, with their screwball libertarianism.

But it came at something of a price, at least for modern-day viewers who turn on The Philadelphia Story expecting a frothy screwball comedy starring three of Hollywood’s biggest movie icons.

A screwball sex comedy about the perils of monogamy, certainty, and academic administration.

Writer and director Lulu Wang’s impressively intimate screenplay for “The Farewell” paints a vivid picture of grief, but the heart of it closely resembles a screwball comedy, with its quirky characters and unique premise.

And no screwball queen is complete without a signature look.

Early in my career I got to do a few roles like ‘Homefront’ and ‘Early Edition,’ where I got to mix in some of the characters that I grew up watching like the Jimmy Stewarts and Cary Grants who would do screwball comedies,” Chandler says.

Screwball-philosopher Darius (Lakeith Stanfield) buys a baseball cap in a gas station, then drives a U-haul to pick up a free piano.

The movie character’s slapstick persona, bizarre antics, and screwball comedy are exactly what Carrey does best.

The pleasures of are just what you think they’ll be: Anne Hathaway, screwball-hilarious as a dim-bulb actor, but unironically radiant as she beams in a cape more grand than any supervillain’s.