farceur

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

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2020

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

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2016

"Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" earned the ever-outrageous farceur Christopher Durang the Tony Award, a capstone to a career in hilarity.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2016

Four years later she was in a tour of four plays by the farceur Vernon Sylvaine, and in 1973 went to the O'Keefe theatre in Toronto, in a production of Move Over Mrs Markham.

From The Guardian • Feb. 19, 2013

And then, as if reflecting, he added, "But no, 'twill never do; they'd call me farceur."

From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by O'Shea, John Augustus