"madcap comedy" is an acceptable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a type of comedy characterized by unexpected, eccentric, and often chaotic behavior. For example, "The madcap comedy of the movie kept me laughing for hours."
In Adam McKay's adaptation of Michael Lewis's book, the subprime-loan crisis becomes a madcap comedy.
Kubrick manages to take that book and make this madcap comedy out of it that's actually pretty terrific.
Some filmmakers can be categorized by genre: Alfred Hitchcock by the thriller, Preston Sturges by the madcap comedy.
His madcap comedy isn't for everyone, he said, as he revealed there have been several walkouts during the run.
"Chuck" on NBC has a similar conceit, but that show is presented as a madcap comedy.
"There's some madcap comedy, some Wodehousian dialogue, some romance, even a little bit of some tragedy in it," he said.
Advertised as "seven madcap comedies" for the price of one, "Mere Mortals" delivers far fewer laughs than that billing might suggest.
Harking back to the madcap comedies of Mr. Guare's earlier days, plays like "Marco Polo Sings a Solo" and "Rich and Famous," "McPhee" outstrips them in the freakish gyrations of its plot.
While it takes a few cues from Casanova's notoriously untrustworthy memoirs, "Casanova" seems more directly inspired by the lighthearted, madcap comedies of near contemporaries like Pierre Marivaux and Casanova's fellow Venetian, Carlo Goldoni.
Today, the theme of adoption is familiar in movies, from madcap comedies like "Flirting with Disaster" and "Mighty Aphrodite" (which, in fact, featured a Greek chorus) to provocative dramas like "Losing Isaiah" and "Secrets and Lies".
BUSINESS DAY A picture caption on Tuesday with the Advertising column, about the mix of dark dramas and madcap comedies to be introduced for the fall television season, misidentified, in some editions, the actress shown in a scene from "Nashville," a country music soap drama from ABC.
