the.com/farce
Comedy's id: where misunderstanding breeds and dignity goes to die screaming.
means A comedy built on exaggerated, improbable situations, mistaken identities, and escalating chaos — or, more broadly, any situation so absurd it mocks itself.
from From French farce, literally 'stuffing' (as in stuffed meat), from Latin farcire, 'to stuff.' Medieval actors used to 'stuff' comic ad-libbed bits into the gaps of serious religious plays — the farce was padding, filler, the part where the show let its hair down. Over time the stuffing swallowed the meal, and 'farce' became the whole genre of absurd, overstuffed comedy.
- origin
- from french for stuffing, as in sausages
- key ingredient
- doors, many doors, opened wrong
- rule
- characters must never just talk to each other
- political use
- calling a trial a farce means it was rigged