Transforming the set into the mayor's house for the action of Le Docteur Miracle, and nudging the costumes into the Eighties, Talevi delivered taut and inventive comedy.

The Kid (1921) Charles Chaplin's first full-length feature, the silent classic "The Kid," is an artful melding of touching drama, social commentary and inventive comedy.

Though his show was sometimes praised for its inventive comedy, Mr. O'Brien himself was often slammed for his nervous delivery and mannerisms.

Gillian Reynolds from the Daily Telegraph described it as a, "Thoughtful, inventive comedy", adding, "Soon prehistory turns out to quite a lot like life anywhere, anytime.

This new adaptation of Mary Rodgers's beloved novel (also the source of a 1976 movie starring Jodie Foster) is a brisk, inventive comedy of generational misunderstanding and mother-daughter reconciliation.

The verbal dexterity of the original text is replaced with inventive visual comedy.

Meanwhile, this tirelessly inventive comedy envisions an Elizabethan theater fraught with the same backbiting and conniving we enjoy today, and has great fun presenting the creation of "Romeo and Juliet," glitches and all.

Due to the film's animation, Richard Corliss of TIME claimed that it was "... the year's most inventive comedy."

There's no better film in New York this weekend than "The Navigator" (1924), one of Keaton's most thrillingly inventive comedies and his biggest popular success.

Jim Carrey turns to a dubious brain doctor (Tom Wilkinson) to have his former girlfriend (Kate Winslet) purged from his memory in this year's most inventive romantic comedy.