Sentence examples for madcap humour from inspiring English sources
It had scattered moments of proficiency, but it failed to capture the madcap humour of Max Shulman's best-selling book.
Robin Williams's madcap humour influenced generations of comedians across the world, many of whom shared their grief on social media and in interviews following his death last week.
Rooney may be a similar build and (on paper, anyway) be similarly gifted, but since 1990 no English player has managed to combine technical brilliance with madcap humour and general unpredictability.
Andy Stanton has won the first Roald Dahl Funny Prize with Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear, the fifth book in a darkly funny series that follows in the footsteps of the master of madcap humour commemorated by the award.
You Have to Be Careful in the Land of the Free had a bolshy narrator who refused to speak or behave predictably, with fruitful results: the book crackled with energy, sentence after sentence delivering jolts of madcap humour and sly wit.
Where it differs is in its difficulty – Earthworm Jim isn't especially hard, and can be polished off in a couple of hours by a first-timer – and its madcap humour.
"All three write very different poetry but have a madcap energy and a keen sense of humour," said Futers.
Jonathan Winters' madcap style and rapid-fire wit.
For a quite different kind of humour, Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre's Pugs of the Frozen North is a madcap, laugh-out-loud adventure which begins with the story of the survival of Shen the cabin boy after all his shipmates desert him when the ship is stuck in the ice.
His work now appears in France, Germany and the US, but rarely in the country of his birth, which, if it remembers him at all, recalls him as a madcap figure from the 50s, part of that zany burst of post-war humour that culminated in the Goons and prepared the way for TV satire in the early 60s.
His face lights up at the mention of What's New, Pussycat?, a madcap caper which was Woody Allen's first script and (depending on your sense of humour) possibly O'Toole's most appealing role.
