His "Juno" is alive at every level - as boisterous comedy, as wrenching tragedy, as blistering social commentary.

(That's "Celebration," an unexpectedly boisterous comedy from 2000.)

In fact, "City for Sale" could be called a boisterous little musical comedy with a message.

This is a cheerful, boisterous, surreal comedy about two Gypsy patriarchs, a self-made young man, an arranged marriage and a heist.

"Thirteen" exploits the topic for maximum shock and discomfort; "Freaky Friday" plays it for warm, boisterous comedy.

But Dekker is credited as the sole author of The Shoemaker's Holiday (1599), his acknowledged masterpiece - a boisterous, rowdy comedy of London life as seen through the eyes of a romanticist.

Two lively, quick-witted films to remember: "The Snapper," Stephen Frears's sly, boisterous comedy about an unwanted pregnancy in a crowded Irish household.

Presented by the Henry Street Settlement Children's Theater, "The Brave Little Tailor" offers boisterous physical comedy and an ingenious set that features draperies with a design of the queens' baby pictures.

Professionally, Mr. Cross was probably best known for his first play, "One More River," which opened in 1959, and for the boisterous musical comedy "Half a Sixpence" (1963).

In either case, Mr. Bates's overplaying is coarsely gratuitous in a production that graces a boisterous comedy with class and insight.