farce

Main Entry:
humor [hyoo-mer or, often, yoo-]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: comedy, funniness
Synonyms: amusement, badinage, banter, buffoonery, clowning, comicality, comicalness, drollery, facetiousness, farce, flippancy, fun, gag, gaiety, happiness, high spirits, jest, jesting, jocoseness, jocosity, jocularity, joke, joking, joyfulness, kidding, levity, lightness, playfulness, pleasantry, raillery, tomfoolery, whimsy, wisecrack, wit, witticism, wittiness
Antonyms: depression, drama, sadness, seriousness, tragedy, unhappiness
Main Entry: mockery
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: joke, parody
Synonyms: burlesque, butt*, caricature, deception, farce, imitation, jest, lampoon, laughingstock, mimicry, mock, pretense, send-up, sham*, spoof, sport*, take-off, travesty
Antonyms: seriousness, solemnity
Main Entry: parody
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: imitation, spoof
Synonyms: apology, burlesque, caricature, cartoon, copy, derision, farce, irony, jest, joke, lampoon, mime, mimicry, misrepresentation, mock-heroic, mockery, pastiche, play-on, raillery, rib, ridicule, roast, satire, send-up, skit, takeoff, travesty
Antonyms: reality, truth
Main Entry: play
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: theater piece
Synonyms: comedy, curtain-raiser, drama, entertainment, farce, flop, hit*, mask*, musical, one-act, opera, performance, potboiler, show, smash hit, smash*, stage show, theatrical, tragedy, turkey
Main Entry: ridicule
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: contemptuous laughter at someone or something
Synonyms: badinage, banter, buffoonery, burlesque, caricature, chaff, comeback, contempt, derision, dig*, disdain, disparagement, farce, foolery, gibe, irony, jab, jeer, laughter, leer, mockery, mordancy, needling, parody, parting shot, persiflage, put-on, putdown, raillery, rally, razz, rib, roast, sarcasm, sardonicism, satire, scorn, slam*, sneer*, swipe, taunt, taunting, travesty
Antonyms: flattery, praise
Main Entry: sham
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: hoax, trick
Synonyms: burlesque, cant, caricature, cheat, counterfeit, cover-up, deceit, deception, facade, fake, fakery, false front, farce, feint, flimflam, forgery, fraud, hypocrisy, hypocriticalness, imitation, impostor, imposture, jive, mock, mockery, pharisaism, phoniness, pretend, pretense, pretext, pseudo*, put-on, sell, smoke*, snow job, spoof, travesty, whitewash
Main Entry: travesty
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: spoof, ridicule
Synonyms: burlesque, caricature, distortion, exaggeration, farce, lampoon, lampoonery, mimicry, mock, mockery, parody, perversion, play, put-on, roast, satire, send-up, sham*, takeoff
Antonyms: seriousness, solemnity
Main Entry: wisecrack
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: joke
Synonyms: antic, caper, clowning, dig, escapade, farce, frolic, gag, lark, laugh, mischief, monkeyshine, one-liner, parody, prank, put-on, quip, remark, retort, rib, shenanigan, smart crack, stunt, trick, witticism, yarn, zinger
Main Entry: slapstick
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: comical
Synonyms: absurd, comedy, farce, funny
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