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

"Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" earned the ever-outrageous farceur Christopher Durang the Tony Award, a capstone to a career in hilarity.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 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

Again, had not Pope, in conjunction with the Dean, his occasional unbending also as a farceur, in the wilder freaks and oddities of Martinus Scriblerus?

From Charles Dickens as a Reader by Kent, Charles Foster