Sentence examples for broad farce from inspiring English sources

This broad farce is no big deal, but it has a cornpone-surreal quality and a rambunctious charm.

Trailers for the film promise plenty of broad farce, physical comedy and at least one lewd dance routine.

Gloria Akalitus, the hospital manager, was a wonderful comedy villain to start with, but her role descended into broad farce.

Connie Britton's "morally corrupt" Faye Resnick swoops into episode four of American Crime Story and turns it almost fully into broad farce.

After joining the producer Nancy Tannenbaum on the film, Ms. Rosenthal altered it from a broad farce to "more of a reality-based comedy," she says.

The productions I'm talking about are more or less realistic, as opposed to the sort of broad farce or instructional Brechtian fare where you expect people to be caricatures.

These were generally popular satiric comedies and broad farces written mainly by playwrights of plebeian birth.

Comedy is subjective, and when it comes to broad farces I am more forgiving than most.

From 1960, he appeared in supporting film parts, most notably in The Killing Of Sister George (1968) and the broad farces, Up Pompeii (1970) and Up The Chastity Belt (1971).

Not only has he been in the business almost as long as he has been alive, he has always been in the business of comedy: sketches as a young man, bit parts in broad farces through his 20s.

"Lost for Words" is, at times, entertaining about what St. Aubyn calls the "poison of comparison," symbolized by a corrupt literary prize, but his story — which started as a broader farce, and was reshaped after discussions with his agent and editors — can seem more disengaged than carefree.