farceur

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

From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2020

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2014

In such a scene the audience of three servants awaited the performance of the polite comedy by the farceur and farceuse, who would pretend to leave their personal tragedies in the wings.

From What Will People Say? A novel by Rupert Hughes

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

These people range under the generic head Charlatanerie, as of the distinct species classified as farceurs according to the French nomenclature.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 by Various