farceur

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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

Cézanne was a butcher, Gauguin a farceur, Van Gogh a particularly disagreeable lunatic: that is what the critics said, and the public said "Hee-haw."

From Pot-Boilers by Bell, Clive