farceur

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

That change of gender is the best creative decision "Crisis" made, because it opened up a part for Sandra Bullock, a practiced farceur and someone with the fearless energy needed to make things funny.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2015

Four years later she was in a tour of four plays by the farceur Vernon Sylvaine, and in 1973 went to the O'Keefe theatre in Toronto, in a production of Move Over Mrs Markham.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 19, 2013

Two years ago, I admit, I was a shallow farceur.

From The Clicking of Cuthbert by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

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