The dark current of class resentment that played a role in ending nearly two decades of Conservative rule in Britain last week comes to the surface in the gleefully anarchic black comedy "Twin Town."

Last year Brooke Berman won the Francesca Primus Prize (for a female playwright) for "Wonderland," an anarchic comedy about Hollywood and religion.

But it's anarchic comedy for the 1980s, closest in spirit to the Marx Brothers as they might have been if they grown up on themselves, and had had the benefit of post-Star Wars special effects.

"Gleefully anarchic black comedy," Lawrence Van Gelder wrote in The Times.

(1966), an anarchic comedy about a rowdy artist.

Landis directed his first film in 1973, when he was 23, but he became the king of anarchic, radical comedy in the Eighties.

This film's arrival in the wake of Mr. Demme's pioneering concert film "Stop Making Sense" and his jubilant, anarchic comedy "Something Wild" completes quite an amazing triple play.

Based loosely on the story of Ali Baba from 1001 Arabian Nights, the film is occasionally self-referential and contains elements of anarchic comedy, burlesque comedy and farce.

Fry is a long-standing fan of the anarchic 1960s British musical comedy group the Bonzo Dog Band, and particularly of its eccentric front man, the late Vivian Stanshall.

If there is irony in the fact that such anarchic comedy has been forever preserved in the antiseptic digital medium, don't tell that to legions of understandably ecstatic Python fanatics.