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In ‘Screwball’, comedy is battle – battle of the classes, battle of the sexes and, most importantly, battle of the wits, where the quickest wins the day. It’s this wit and pace that was the forerunner of most modern comedy, with the baton having being passed to the great sitcoms of today. These movies would be the parents (or drunken, bickering absentee parents more likely) of everything from 30 Rock to Arrested Development, Seinfeld to Friends. Rich people being mean to each…