farceur

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

From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2020

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

Andrew Sachs, a seasoned farceur who portrayed the diminutive, dunderheaded and much-abused Spanish waiter Manuel on “Fawlty Towers,” widely regarded as one of the best sitcoms of all time, died Nov. 23 in London.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 2016

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

From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2016

To the last class belongs Francis Fisherton, once a gentleman, now without a shilling or a principle; but rich in mother wit—in fact a farceur, after Paul de Kock's own heart.

From The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 by Various

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

The text of Mountfort's "Dr. Faustus" reveals that his farce, like any, must depend to a great extent on its farceurs.

From The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Made into a Farce by William Mountfort