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screwball comedy
noun
A genre of motion picture or play where opposites were juxtaposed; characterized by snappy dialog, and a blend of sophistication and slapstick
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It's a screwball comedy, Japanese style.
It's screwball comedy – who cares what really happened?
…puppets in the screwball comedy The Happytime Murders.
TRIXIE -- Alan Rudolph ("Afterglow") combines film noir and screwball comedy.
Elsewhere the screwball comedy tropes come thick and fast.
SAG HARBOR Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Weekend: "Top Hat," a 1935 screwball comedy musical.
The decade's most distinctive creation, however, may be the screwball comedy.
Right from the start, screwball comedy was infected by the germ of commercial hypocrisy.
Less popular was Pillow to Post (1945), a screwball comedy starring Lupino.
The screwball comedy was as funny as many better-known 1930s classics.
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It's a pothead picaresque, a contemporary screwball comedy-drama with a mellow emotional tang.
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