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Satirist Vic Berger regularly takes unedited comments by Donald Trump and amplifies their lunacy with the aid of hyperactive visual editing and the odd airhorn sound effect.

It can't match Kane's catalogue of horrors, but what makes Ireland's play so terrifying is that it takes fanaticism to its logical conclusion and laces lunacy with laughter.

For a refresher on how that movie welded lunacy with deadpan wit, witness John Cleese and Joan Sanderson dryly observing a "pig climbing up the outside of the house": it's as if Miss Piggy had crashed a Pinter play.

It has maintained a steady low-decibel level of outlandishness, becoming neither more nor less explicit about its intentions, remaining a mild form of constructive lunacy with its own logic, and therefore, strangely, a comforting constant.

Although a 1964 film captured something of the play's anarchic lunacy, with Eric Sykes constructing a model of the Old Bailey in his living room while a mute Jonathan Miller taught 100 speak-your-weight machines to sing the Hallelujah Chorus, the play was too theatrical for the cinema.

It has become a cliche to say that American movies, after a brief golden age in the early 1970s (The Godfather, The Conversation, Mean Streets, The Last Detail, Carnal Knowledge, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest) began an inexorable decline into special-effects lunacy with the release of Jaws (1975) and Star Wars (1977).

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This is a show delivered with both love and lunacy, but with more discipline it would point up how tragedy and farce are close cousins.

There was always bad feeling in the end, always lunacy, particularly with ghost jobs.

Mr. Kelly was interviewed on national television, and he was off and running with the O.W.L. party, which stood for both "Out With Logic" and "On With Lunacy".

"Your madness fits in neatly with my own/ Your lunacy fits neatly with my own/ We're not alone" (cue beautiful chord change) – enough said.

Writing, producing and directing the film with a new infant at home was "an act of lunacy," Mazzio said with a laugh.

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