farceur

Example Sentences

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He began as the disillusioned farceur of “Roger & Me,” in 1989.

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2020

What might life be like in a country helmed by a genuinely funny comedian, rather than a farceur?

From The Guardian • Aug. 25, 2019

John Cleese told the Today programme that Sachs was a "sweet man" and a "brilliant farceur".

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2016

Whitehead, an expert farceur, knows that nothing is funnier than lunatic conviction.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2014

Again, had not Pope, in conjunction with the Dean, his occasional unbending also as a farceur, in the wilder freaks and oddities of Martinus Scriblerus?

From Charles Dickens as a Reader by Kent, Charles Foster