Some thought his excitability, a kind of Loony Kloppo schtick, just as Mad Out-Of-Date Louis, Mad Tight-Fisted Arsène, Mad Classy Manuel and Just Generally Mad José have all been safely dispatched this season.
He reprised his cheerfully loony take on the Mad Hatter in Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016) and later was part of an all-star cast in Murder on the Orient Express (2017), based on Agatha Christie's 1933 novel.
The Selfridges windows feature props and costumes from the film, including the loony ensemble of the Mad Hatter, and the department store has also turned its Wonder Room, usually a luxury gifts area, into an "Alice in the Wonder Room" pop-up shop.
She was kind enough to agree to do a small but brilliantly written role playing a mad new-age loony friend who suggests that Hugh and Joely go bonking on lay lines to get a baby.
Who has called me hysterical, insane, a lunatic, a mad woman, a conspirator, a loony, a mad cat lady, a nasty piece of work, a criminal, a bully, a mad cat lady, a loony, a tinfoil hat nutter, a hacker, a mad cat lady, a loony, a bitter Remoaner, a lone conspiracy theorist, an enemy of the people.
As the mad matriarch, Ethel Barrymore was no unobtrusive loony: she made a meal of it.
Those dismissed as "fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists" tear Britain apart as they babble mad slogans about a Europeanised elite conspiring against "the people".
As the suicides rage like the plague, Mr. Wahlberg's Elliot, a Philadelphia high-school science teacher, heads out of town on a train with his wife, Alma (an oddly miscast, loony-looking Zooey Deschanel, working her big blue peepers like mad), and another teacher, Julian John Leguizamoo), who brings along his young daughter, Jess (Ashlyn Sanchez).
Incest, rare meat, religious loonies and cornball kung-fu television mix it up in "Mad Cowgirl," the story of, uh, who knows? "A woman, who is dying of a brain disorder, begins a surreal journey which descends into violence," reads one of two synopses offered in the press kit.
When Lear does go mad, he's all the more powerful for not being a roaring loony.
