farceur

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

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2020

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

Robertson Hare, the great Whitehall farceur, told him: "You'll never do any good until you're 40."

From The Guardian • Mar. 18, 2013

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 Hughes, Rupert