Part chick lit, part chic lit, these sorts of books pretend to serve up old-fashioned comedies of manners, enlivened with Tom Wolfe-ian status details.

What is needed, perhaps, is some old-fashioned comedy.

In general, old-fashioned comedies would appeal more to him than comedy films of recent history.

But like "The Producers," "Hairspray" succeeds in recreating the pleasure of the old-fashioned musical comedy without seeming old-fashioned.

In an undated review, Time Out London called it "a hoarily old-fashioned romantic comedy ... [with] occasional moments of life injected by Taylor and Beatty."

The basic form is old-fashioned romantic comedy, goofy and farcical at times but with an underlying warmth.

What is it that makes a good old-fashioned comedy of manners just about the most satisfying reading there is?

The New York critics considered the piece to be an old-fashioned and sentimental Edwardian musical comedy which was out of place in 1922, but despite this it proved a huge success.

I'm a sucker for good old-fashioned fall-about comedy, and I don't care if it's old fashioned, it makes me laugh.

He reminds one of the red-faced sportsmen who always appeared early in the first act of an old-fashioned musical comedy, the setting being the village green.