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

This rather raises the question: what might life be like in a country helmed by a genuinely funny comedian, rather than a farceur who dreams of being taken seriously?

From The Guardian • Aug. 25, 2019

This isn’t just because Simonischek, a master farceur, gives even Toni’s nuttier shenanigans their own bizarrely persuasive logic.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2016

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

That half farceur, half ruffian, who had the characteristics of a modern anarchist, was a genius for organization.

From Cæsar or Nothing by How, Louis