History Main / ScrewballComedy

* ''Film/AfterHours'' and ''SomethingWild'' can be seen as darkly [[PostModernism postmodern]] '80s variations of the genre.

* ''Film/{{Arthur}}'' is about equal parts Creator/PGWodehouse pastiche and screwball pastiche: With the help of a ServileSnarker valet, a FunPersonified LonelyRichKid being pushed into a stuffy ArrangedMarriage finds true love with a working-class woman who loves him for himself.

* Film/BennyAndJoon: A subversion where both people in the romance are looney, and the straight man whose life is turned upside down is Benny, Joon’s brother.

* ''Film/{{Monkey Business|1952}}'': the Cary Grant/Marilyn Monroe one, not the Creator/MarxBrothers one.

* ''Film/WhatsUpDoc'': Peter Bogdanovich's {{homage}} to the genre.[[/index]]

* ''Film/UnfaithfullyYours''

* Film/BennyAndJoon: A subversion where both people in the romance are looney, and the straight man whose life is turned upside down is Benny, Joon’s brother.
* ''Film/OneTwoThree''
* ''Film/KissMeStupid''
* ''Film/MansFavoriteSport''
* ''Film/TheProposal'': An uptight woman pretends that she is going to marry her relaxed male assistant.

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* ''[[Film/MrAndMrsSmith1941 Mr. and Mrs. Smith]]'' (1941)

* ''Film/IWasAMaleWarBride''[[/index]]

* ''[[Film/KissMeStupid Kiss Me, Stupid]]''
* ''Man's Favorite Sport?''

* ''Switching Channels'': A remake of ''Film/HisGirlFriday'' (which was a remake of ''Film/TheFrontPage'').

* [[index]] ''Film/TheHudsuckerProxy'': Another homage, written and directed by Creator/TheCoenBrothers

* Conversely, the 1928 silent Marion Davies comedy ''The Patsy'' can be regarded as a sort of very early prototype for the genre.[[/index]]

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* ''Series/SchittsCreek'' updates many of the tropes from classic screwball comedy, especially in the unfolding romances of CloudCuckoolander Alexis and David and the class-comedy that comes from the Roses' fish-out-of-water antics. One key update is allowing pansexual and flamboyant David to be a protagonist, rather than just a comic side character whose sexuality goes unnamed. David's romance with Patrick, in fact, has all the hallmarks of the genre with David breaking the more uptight Patrick out of his shell and much comic bickering between them. There's even an onscreen ShoutOut to the genre when Moira gives David a pep talk in the voice of a 1930s screwball heroine.

* ''Series/SchittsCreek'' updates many of the tropes from classic screwball comedy, especially in the unfolding romances of Alexis and David and the class-comedy that comes from the Roses' fish-out-of-water antics. One key update is allowing pansexual and flamboyant David to be a protagonist, rather than just a comic side character whose sexuality goes unnamed. David's romance with Patrick, in fact, has all the hallmarks of the genre with David breaking the more uptight Patrick out of his shell and much comic bickering between them. There's even an onscreen ShoutOut to the genre when Moira gives David a pep talk in the voice of a 1930s screwball heroine.

* ''Series/SchittsCreek'' updates many of the tropes from classic screwball comedy, especially in the unfolding romances of Alexis and David and the class-comedy that comes from the Roses' fish-out-of-water antics. There's even an onscreen ShoutOut to this when Moira gives David a pep talk in the voice of a 1930s screwball heroine.

* ''Series/SchittsCreek'' updates many of the tropes from classic screwball comedy, especially in the unfolding romances of Alexis and David and the class-comedy that comes from the Roses' fish-out-of-water antics. There even an onscreen nod to this when Moira gives David a pep talk in the voice of a 1930s screwball heroine.

-->'''Moira: Ah say, don't be a dewdropper. Throw some concealer under those peepers, make like a swell and go put on the ritz."

* ''Monkey Business'': the Cary Grant/Marilyn Monroe one, not the Creator/MarxBrothers one.
* [[index]] ''Film/TheSevenYearItch''

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* 1987 Creator/{{Madonna}} flick ''Film/WhosThatGirl'' draws heavily from the genre, right down to to the big cat riffing ''Bringing Up Baby'' 20 years before ''Harold and Kumar''.

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* ''Film/DinnerAtEight''

* ''Film/Midnight1939''

* ''Film/MrAndMrsSmith1941''