21.   Jennifer Aniston has brought to the mommy plot the timing of a heroine from a classic screwball comedy.

22.   Jean Arthur of the glorious violin voice was a queen of screwball comedy but possessed dazzling dramatic range.

23.   Like the latter film, the raunchy screwball comedy involves a road trip in the pursuit of potential true love.

24.   Megan Murphy and McMahon hurl themselves into their roles with an engagingly disconnected quality that could have been lifted from a screwball comedy.

25.   Ms. Ackermann has written a screwball comedy with some amusing touches, mostly in the lampooning of American kitsch.

26.   Old-style screwball comedy.

27.   Plucked from a shantytown near the East River, he is dropped into a pack of yammering upper-crust nitwits who were the basic ingredient of screwball comedy.

28.   She is best remembered for screwball comedies in which, no matter what situation befell her, she usually managed to keep her aplomb and good humor.

29.   She had read that the old Hollywood screwball comedies were written and shot at breakneck speed.

30.   Such exchanges may lack the tang of classic screwball comedy, but they have more flavor than most comic movie dialogue nowadays.