He is known for his long, rambling, often incoherent and irrelevant stories and senility. But within a minute, he was rambling, and in another thirty seconds, he was incoherent. During a rambling monologue Paylin avoids answering the adultery question. "Something Happened" has frequently been criticized as overlong, rambling, and deeply unhappy. He felt, however, the film was "overlong and occasionally rambling". His on-screen performances were sometimes criticised for rambling and incomprehensible commentaries or interview questions. His comedic style takes the form of rambling whimsical monologues and self-referential pantomime. Its excessive length and rambling scenes also make it maddening. Woodroofe's comically rambling commentary has regularly been rebroadcast. Cackling, rambling and insane, he terminates his contract with Cobblepot and disappears. Beekman regarded the plot as rambling, and replete with implausible developments. He interrupts her speech, rambling and pacing back and forth in front of her. They would escape the confines of the city by rambling about in the countryside. Keith, however, remains lying down, relaxed and rambling on. He followed O'Connell, whom he sharply criticised for the latter's "long, rambling, jumbling, speech".