Rupert Holmes

I always try to keep in mind that while the characters in a farce may find themselves in outrageous dilemmas, and may behave in a way that the audience finds amusing, the characters themselves don't have the consolation of knowing they're in a comedy.

English Composer

Mark Linn-Baker

In low comedy, a character gets hit in the head, and you don't really believe it. In farce, he's hit in the head, but he must be hit in the head. The character requires it.

American Actor

Steven Weinberg

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

American Scientist

George Pierce Baker

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.

American Educator

David Gross

Reading history, one rarely gets the feeling of the true nature of scientific development, in which the element of farce is as great as the element of triumph.

American Physicist

Mark Twain

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

American Writer

Jean Anouilh

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

French Playwright

Frances McDormand

Unless it's a flat-out farce, an actor can't play comedy on film.

American Actress

Karl Marx

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

German Philosopher

Arthur Rimbaud

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

French Poet

Understand that 'farce' implies situations are so over-the-top that they're unbelievable.

Exaggeration Key

'Farce' often refers to a specific genre of comedy, especially in theater and film.

Entertainment Context

A 'farce' is not intended to be taken seriously, it's meant to entertain by being silly.

Not Serious

When 'farce' describes real events, it means things have gone wrong in a foolish or embarrassing way.

Real-life Chaos

In criticism, calling something a 'farce' emphasizes that it's seen as pointless or a waste of time.

Critically Used

Unlike the theatrical meaning, here 'farce' has a negative tone, suggesting frustration or annoyance.

Negative Connotation

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 teach it how to hunt so it can be wild which is an absolute farce if if a big cat gets hungry enough it knows how to hunt those instincts are there there have been there for hundreds of thousands of years they don't need to be taught anything and as I said it would be the same as

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 No, it is not fun. It is a cruel farce. Now, it may bring a certain amount of comfort, but that comfort lasts only about 20 minutes or so. And then the people look in the mirror, and they say, I just paid a lot of money for that reading.

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 spotlight on deprivation or show that deprivation ain't necessarily so great creativity can make politicians electable or party's unelectable it can make war seem like tragedy or farce

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 You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment.

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 And we probably need, well, we probably need a cowboy to be quite honest. Yeah, let's take that one. You see, cowboys and French farce people

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Farce

A type of comedy that uses exaggerated and absurd situations to create humor.

Often appears as...

A situation or event that is ridiculous because of being disorganized, confusing or embarrassing.

Often appears as...

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Exaggeration Key

Entertainment Context

Not Serious

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