Sentence examples for a farce about from inspiring English sources

In 1982 he portrayed a Chicago mobster in Blake Edwards's Victor/Victoria, a farce about mistaken identity.

Two years later, he made "Sexo Va, Sexo Viene"—"Sex Goes, Sex Comes"—a farce about a lesbian who abuses her boyfriend until he starts dressing like a woman.

This is a farce about British jihadis.

In "Melancholy Play" (2002), a farce about suffering, Ruhl dramatized the point.

A farce about two couples in a sexual trapezoid, "Central Park West" received fine reviews.

"SUPER TROOPERS" The Canadian comedy troupe Broken Lizard in a farce about misbehaving Vermont state troopers.

In "Noises Off," a sex farce-within-a-farce about a bumbling theatrical troupe, her Brooke is the dishy blonde whose way of dealing with onstage disaster is to continue her line readings as if nothing is going wrong.

Since its 1982 London premiere, audiences have roared approbation for Michael Frayn's similarly convention-bending play – a farce-within-a-farce about a touring troupe whose intimate workings are revealed over the course of three acts: at the dress rehearsal, backstage during the run and on stage on the last night.

It's a lot of scrutiny for a delicate confection — a remake of a light farce about a constantly inebriated multimillionaire who doesn't want to sober up or grow up; Hobson, his acerbic butler-surrogate parent; and the working-class girl with whom he improbably falls in love.

I suspected that replying "I'm writing a Disney farce about a tramp in a habit" wasn't the correct response.

Boyd has a sneaking fondness for bad behavior, which he has indulged since his first novel, "A Good Man in Africa," a Wodehousian farce about a deceitful, lecherous, incompetent, spiteful postcolonial diplomat whose abject indifference to morality and even, at times, to decorum becomes kind of endearing.