farceur

Example Sentences

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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

Whitehead, an expert farceur, knows that nothing is funnier than lunatic conviction.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2014

Robertson Hare, the great Whitehall farceur, told him: "You'll never do any good until you're 40."

From The Guardian • Mar. 18, 2013

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 Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various