zany

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“Everyone in This Bank Is a Thief,” the fourth entry in Mr. Stevenson’s zany series, gives readers more than their money’s worth of shocks and satire.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

But the frontrunner of this awards season has long been "One Battle," a zany thriller about a retired revolutionary looking for his teen daughter.

From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026

College football has its fair share of zany traditions, but none has become as reliable as spending the final weekend of the season arguing over whether Alabama deserves to make the College Football Playoff.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025

Zimmer had been a longtime go-to for “Simpsons” executive producer James L. Brooks, and he won over a skeptical Groening with his zany score for “The Simpsons Movie” in 2007.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2025

Plus, Charles’s mother did not particularly care for what Mr. Lemoncello was doing inside his zany library.

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein