Iraq's Sunni insurgents denounced it as a "dirty and dubious farce".
It was, and "Dirty Linen," Stoppard's deadpan farce about sexual misconduct in the House of Commons, opened at the Almost Free Theatre in April , 1976
He openly denied the Holocaust, and called the United States "a farce controlled by dirty, hook-nosed, circumcised Jew bastards".
Pauline Kael once wrote that Mr. De Palma "replays film history as farce" while keeping "the dirty fun of a bad boy at the center of his art".
The most fruitful twist in "Late Marriage" is that at its core lies not a snippy domestic farce but a prolonged, dirty, and wholly credible sex scene, which starts and stops and starts again, and in which argument and arousal are entwined like limbs.
Feydeau's plays, including 1907's A Flea in Her Ear, helped establish the shorthand image of stage farce: an adulterer who bumps into his wife and employer during a dirty weekend in a hotel.
Since then, Mr. Paladino, with the help of the Republican consultant Roger J. Stone Jr., has fashioned a campaign around anger ("I'm mad as hell," his slogan reads), far-right conservatism (he calls global warming a "farce") and reform in Albany (he frequently talks of "cleaning out the dirty trash").
Inspired by the ancient farces of Plautus, this convoluted tale of a wily slave, young lovers and dirty old men in dirty old Rome ingeniously finds the links between classical comedy and its burlesque-house descendants.
(Brantley) ★ 'One Man, Two Guvnors' Richard Bean's splendidly silly adaptation of a 17th-century Italian farce, directed by Nicholas Hytner and starring the wondrous James Corden, is both satanic and seraphic, dirty-minded and utterly innocent.
