farceur
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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
He is also the self-taught playwright of prodigious classical learning, Shakespeare's champion and a heck of a funny farceur.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2018
John Cleese told the Today programme that Sachs was a "sweet man" and a "brilliant farceur".
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2016
He was by turns a farceur, a wit, a man of emotion, a man with a touch of genius.
From The Way of Ambition by J. H. Gardner Soper
In Larissa FastHorse’s “The Thanksgiving Play,” which opened on Monday at Playwrights Horizons, the familiar, whitewashed story of Pilgrims and Native Americans chowing down together gets a delicious roasting from expert farceurs.
From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2018
I mean the sort of tickling administered by a team of master farceurs who frisk you into a state of sustained laughter, as involuntary and contented as the purr of a kitten at play.
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2018
The movie also provides solid evidence that at least two gifted farceurs can display emotional range well beyond the demands of a Lorne Michaels’ skit-com.
From Time ● Sep. 9, 2014
One wonders what American farceurs would make of Richard Bean's adapted script, and I feel assured that some enterprising Seattle theater will have a go at it.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 7, 2012
He certainly might have been disdainful of the salary of the admiration of one of the farceurs of his own "Coucher du Soleil Romantique."
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury
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