farceur
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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
"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
The tight-fisted little farceur had a confused reverence for anything that seemed to him refined or clever.
From Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
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
But the comedians of this day are weak-strained farceurs compared with her, and her tragic tone was thunder set to music.
From Peg Woffington by Charles Reade
