1.   They want to make screwball romantic comedies but they wind up producing sitcoms that look lost without a laugh track.

2.   As a sexually confused character named Melanie-Jane Beetles, Williams demonstrates a flair for absurdist screwball comedy.

3.   A nonstop barrage of slapstick and one-liners makes the tireless screwball comedy an enjoyably retro experience.

4.   After all, both McCarey versions started out like screwball comedies before lurching into sudsy excess.

5.   But as these two classics illustrate, screwball comedy is an art, especially when, as in these two examples, it has something to say.

6.   Call it a gender-orientation screwball comedy.

7.   Diaz is too constrained and ill-at-ease to convince as the usual apple-cart-upsetting heroine of what wants to be a screwball comedy.

8.   Eventually, the two see stars in their eyes and nuptials in their future as Newell deftly tempers American screwball comedy with British high-brow humor.

9.   Fancying itself a screwball comedy, it is neither screwy nor comedic enough to be worth the time and effort.

10.   Fuller and Lewis both worked for Sennett, who helped pioneer the screwball comedy.