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.
Yes, the production was every bit what one has come to expect from the Galliano years — a Jeremy Healy soundtrack, makeup by Tyen and Pat McGrath, hair by Orlando Pita and hats by Stephen Jones — but without his wicked wit and madcap historicisms.
Jonathan Winters' madcap style and rapid-fire wit.
The best of Big Mal some time ago drifted off into a half-world that was the most poignant mockery of all the wit and vibrancy and sheer, madcap courage that made him the most brilliant football coach of his times.
Authors like Gary Shteyngart have mined the experiences of Jewish immigrants and outsiders for madcap comedy, but Mr. Bezmozgis displays his own deft wit, and a subtle one too.
What it lacks almost completely (in addition to wit) is an internal design the farce's madcap spiralling of rigorous logic, which carries both plot and personality to the point of disintegration.
What it lacks almost completely (in addition to wit) is an internal design — the farce's madcap spiralling of rigorous logic, which carries both plot and personality to the point of disintegration.
There's an explosion of puppy love in Bristol, where Sally Cookson and Travelling Light's devised version of Dodie Smith's classic novel is full of wit and invention, has a retro vibe and offers madcap adventure that is full of joie de vivre and tail-wagging swagger.
The show's chaos, irreverence and broad wit would be a natural fit for Corden, whose equally madcap turn in One Man, Two Guvnors remains one of his most beloved roles.
Where the movie "soars is in its visuals: A Monte Carlo chase is vertiginously madcap; a Cirque du Soleil-style spectacle dazzles with rich pastels; the 3-D effects have wit and invention," Andy Webster wrote in The Times in June.
