Sentence examples for entertaining farce from inspiring English sources

As it happens, Mr. McDonagh's stage violence is especially apparent in the current "Lieutenant of Inishmore," his blood-splattered and highly entertaining farce depicting Irish political terrorists as ruthless, bumbling idiots.

This entertaining farce, by a restaurant critic for The Observer of London, concerns a merciless (and fictional) restaurant critic who discovers the euphoric effects of apologizing for his offensive conduct.

But in a season of leaden comedies, this clever, thoughtful and entertaining farce, which opened Off Broadway last night at the New York Theater Workshop, is a welcome arrival.

There's no pretence at profundity here, but this entertaining farce allows Mortimer to display plenty of his dry wit and yarnspilling ability a full 30 years before he struck gold with Rumpole.

And perhaps they are good-enough reasons, too, to watch the fight: the buildup has been an absurd but entertaining farce, and there is a chance — and, among some of us who will be watching, a perverse hope — that whatever happens on Saturday night will be pretty farcical, too.

And this is the moment when "Supreme Courtship" really becomes a Supreme Court comedy, not a surprising feat from the author of improbably entertaining farces about the tobacco lobby ("Thank You for Smoking"), diplomatic misadventure ("Florence of Arabia") and Social Security reform ("Boomsday").

For all of its spirited desire to entertain, "Tour de Farce," currently at New Jersey Repertory Company here, never really faces that test; the conceit that the authors, Philip LaZebnik and Kingsley Day, trade upon betrays them before that point.

If England was as entertaining on the field as it has been in the tabloid bedroom farces, it might have won five or six World Cups, not one, on distant home soil in 1966.

So entertaining.

entertaining program.

"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.