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

John Cleese told the Today programme that Sachs was a "sweet man" and a "brilliant farceur".

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2016

Photograph: PA The acting career of Elspet Gray, who has died aged 83, was obscured but not extinguished by being so closely bound up with her marriage to the farceur Brian Rix.

From The Guardian • Feb. 19, 2013

Cowen, has written, "as a farceur and entertainer no professional could surpass him."

From Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1 by Thompson, Slason