Screwball comedy

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Screwball comedy

a type of romantic comedy characterized by fast-paced humor, witty dialogue, and unconventional romantic relationships involving eccentric characters

Examples

1. RKO also took a lot of chances, producing everything from Howard Hawks’ screwball comedy Bringing Up Baby, to the 1933 version of King Kong, and one of the most influential films of all time, Citizen Kane.

2. Actually, that sounds like a pretty decent idea for an early 2000s screwball comedy starring Owen Wilson.

3. And I want to just remind you that that great director of screwball comedy was also one of the great directors of masculine adventure films including what many people think is one of the great Westerns of all time-- Red River.

4. Well, within those constraints, of course, as I hope I've already begun to show you in our discussion of screwball comedy, there can be an immense range of difference, but it's still within certain controlled parameters.