31.   Sudden celebrity was a staple of screwball comedy.

32.   The attempts at screwball comedy were not working.

33.   The best screwball comedies deal in cleansing, therapeutic chaos.

34.   The complications are resolved with the verve and precision of classic screwball comedy.

35.   The female roles have a depth uncommon to this type of screwball comedy.

36.   The thing is, the old screwball comedies never contained any shots where the camera lingered over a mound of dog poop.

37.   The zenith of the genre was the screwball comedy, born during the Depression and popular throughout World War II.

38.   Their exchanges have the ring of ratcheted-up screwball comedy.

39.   This delightful premise for a screwball comedy is thoroughly submarined by its author, who seems not to understand his own material.

40.   We need another screwball romantic comedy like we need another lizard whose hangnails are the width of this newspaper.