Writer Paul Makin went on to write the more conventional comedies like Goodnight Sweetheart.

Father Goose is a fairly conventional comedy, but the remaining three films all share a common theme and a style of screenwriting.

Nevertheless, that is a picayune figure compared to the average Hollywood budget of $25 million for a conventional contemporary comedy.

Critics agree that it's a conventional comedy.

Then the play settles into being a thoroughly conventional and confused romantic comedy.

"The movie is an accumulation of wonderfully buoyant, sometimes irrational details that would be throwaways in more conventional comedies."

Here are New York's social-climbing, back-stabbing, label-flaunting sophisticates, moving restlessly through a conventional comedy of manners.

(In the parade, "the heroine is anything but a virtuous ingénue", unlike her counterpart in conventional comedy.)

As in many conventional comedies, the protagonist Johnny Goodlittle is a comic relief character.

Even in "Bewitched," perhaps the most conventional comedy Ferrell has done, his character appears naked.