farce
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Farce is a notoriously cruel genre, as critic Eric Bentley has noted.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2025
James Madison quipped: “A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy.”
From Slate • Feb. 6, 2025
He appeared in several Canadian sitcoms and had a guest appearance on Canadian sketch comedy show the Royal Canadian Air Farce.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2024
“A Calling for Charlie Barnes” is split into two large sections, one called Farce and the other Fiction.
From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2021
Zounds Ladies have done with Your abuse and let the Farce go on; It was funny enough at First, but you continue it too long.
From The Covent Garden Theatre, or Pasquin Turn'd Drawcansir by Macklin, Charles
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 14–18
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