The phrase "absurd character" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a person or figure that embodies ridiculousness or is nonsensical in nature, often in literature or art.
Example: "The play featured an absurd character who constantly contradicted himself, leaving the audience in stitches."
Alternatives: "ridiculous figure" or "ludicrous persona."
Even if it's an absurd character, there's a belief system".
But as the weeks have gone on, Olivia has become an absurd character.
Volumes of nonsense verse include Galgenlieder (1905; "Gallows Songs"); Palmström (1910), named for an absurd character; and three volumes published posthumously: Palma Kunkel (1916), Der Gingganz (1919), and Die Schallmühle (1928; "The Noise Mill"), all collected in Alle Galgenlieder (1932).
But "Transatlantica" is a largely juvenile script, and only two in the cast of six understand how to inhabit an absurd character; the others are merely making absurd gestures.
Far and away the most absurd character, played with admirable po-faced sincerity by Aaron Neil, is a dunderhead police commissioner who, faced with an intractable murder inquiry, goes on television and announces "a clue is the one thing I've not got" and who allows himself to be publicly Tazered in the interests of good PR.
Papa mocked Ford in The Sun Also Rises (as the absurd character Braddocks) and tore him apart in A Moveable Feast: "He was breathing heavily through a heavy, stained moustache and holding himself as upright as an ambulatory, well-clothed, up-ended hogshead … I had always avoided looking at Ford when I could and I always held my breath when I was near him in a closed room".
And don't forget the media: sports sections run absurd, character-buttressing portraits of antisocial man-children.
Chapman, often shown wearing a tweed jacket and smoking a pipe, perfected absurd characters, notably the Army Colonel and Raymond Luxury-Yacht.
His antiheroes, labouring against an indifferent or downright hostile workaday world, come on like worthy descendants of proto-surrealist Alfred Jarry's absurd characters.
Many of the absurd characters in Evelyn Waugh's blackly comic novels, the reader comes to realize, were drawn from — or at least inspired by — life.
She created deliciously absurd characters like the silkily self-possessed network executive Jack Donaghy, played brilliantly by Alec Baldwin, and the insane comedian Tracy Jordan, played by Tracy Morgan, by grafting familiar show-business phenotypes onto those actors' inner nuttiness.
