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He added: "As a young male actor, generally, the minute you're not playing a zany artist type, the minute you're in a suit, people fling it at you."

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

And, if recent events are any indication, the Cheesecake Factory, in all its grand and zany glory.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

When they leave on a research trip, Thunder jumps at the chance to spend the summer at her zany Aunt Hazel’s crumbling historic mansion, Mount Pleasant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

“It was a weird movie that felt lost, especially when it stars John Cusack and Tim Robbins being zany in a way they don’t often get to be,” he says by phone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Running in the mornings and reading in the afternoons gave him just enough stability to endure the zany nights at the McNabs’.

From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli

You don’t know what these zanies might do.

From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2024

Missing were the usual cast of zanies dressed in wedding gowns and super hero costumes jostling with the beat writers to get their questions heard.

From Reuters ● Jan. 27, 2020

So it's fair to say that James Corden and his successor, Owain Arthur, in Richard Bean's barnstorming comic play One Man, Two Guvnors are zanies in the true sense of the word.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 5, 2012

McDonagh's zanies are grotesques devoid of decency or basic deductive skills.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 25, 2010

Some zanies are a trifle mad: Now we have finished—and I'm glad.

From Little People: An Alphabet by Henry Mayer

“Hoppers” features zanier cartoon comedy and less tear-inducing pathos than audiences may expect from the studio behind “Up.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 7, 2026

The last time Salon cracked wise at the offerings listed among Oprah’s Favorite Things or the zanier items in Goop’s holiday gift guide was in 2019.

From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2023

It’s essentially “E.T.” with a sloppier, zanier touch, and it’s set in urban Vietnam as opposed to a sleepy California neighborhood.

From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2022

The story grows zanier and more evocative when Ry Shelley befriends a high-functioning madman named Professor Victor Stein, who’s into artificial intelligence and cryogenics.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 2019

While it’s zanier than other current political dramas, like “House of Cards,” it still has a serious point to make.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2016

I’d also be lying if I said that was the only reason my husband and I share our lives with two of nature’s zaniest comics instead of a herd of small humans.

From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2024

But Hurley, perhaps the zaniest and most entertaining sideline presence in a sport of big-personality coaches, did more clapping than crazed gesticulating during this run.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 4, 2023

“It could win best picture and it’s the zaniest idea out there,” Lord says.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2023

He has some of the zaniest lines, and Sprouse is delightfully game for all of them.

From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2022

Imagine you’re a kid again and given an unlimited budget to build and race the zaniest Hot Wheels track you could possibly imagine.

From The Verge ● Dec. 27, 2021