farce
noun
[ fɑːs ]
• a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations.
• "he toured the backwoods in second-rate farces"
Similar:
slapstick comedy,
broad comedy,
slapstick,
burlesque,
vaudeville,
travesty,
buffoonery,
skit,
squib,
pasquinade,
Origin:
early 16th century: from French, literally ‘stuffing’, from farcir ‘to stuff’, from Latin farcire . An earlier sense of ‘forcemeat stuffing’ became used metaphorically for comic interludes ‘stuffed’ into the texts of religious plays, which led to the current usage.
