screwball

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Screwball humor often runs through the pieces; they indulge in abstraction and never skew didactic.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2026

Swift triumphantly waved to the crowd alongside Screwball, his “R” cap askew and appropriately signature red tongue draped past his chin.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 9, 2024

Screwball barbs come off as hostile jabs because Cruise doesn’t connect with the other actors on screen; they might as well have been dropped in via green screen.

From Slate • Jun. 8, 2017

They’re an odd couple too for a dual biography of the kind Marion Meade delivers with “Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney.”

From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2010

When I walked through Screwball Square again, some college kids were yelling "wheah's your redlines" at old Charlie, the last of the Wobblies.

From The Altar at Midnight by Ashman, William