farceur

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

From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2020

What might life be like in a country helmed by a genuinely funny comedian, rather than a farceur?

From The Guardian ● Aug. 25, 2019

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

To the last class belongs Francis Fisherton, once a gentleman, now without a shilling or a principle; but rich in mother wit—in fact a farceur, after Paul de Kock's own heart.

From The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 by Various

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

Their deepest feeling is for the arts; and, as everyone had declared, they are farceurs in their tragedies, tragic in their comedies.

From The Beautiful Lady by Booth Tarkington