Hwang has the farce part down, but he hides too much behind it.
An outsider, a young black woman who works at the local supermarket, enters the room, and the farce breaks down, quickly turning into something much more menacing.
This farce went down in the annals of German football as the ghostliest ghost goal ever – "Phantom-Tor" is the technical term – but hopes that this incident might push the league over the line, towards goal technology, were dashed six months later.
Likewise, to suggest that Hodgson and his players bear no fault and their French farce was entirely down to wider factors is also demonstrably false.
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I, of course, was a part of that grand farce, parading down the sidewalk of the Meat Packing District wearing a collage of designer clothes that retail for nine times what I have in my checking account.
Honestly, this isn't just on a par with the worst indulgences of French sex farce cinema, it's down there with the dregs of Britain's contributions to the genre.
"Everyone keeps saying how auto-biographical this film is, but it's really more of a farce," Ms. Fisher says, plopping down in an armchair with a plate of bacon (she's on the Atkins diet) and peanut butter cookies (sort of) in a rambling Spanish-style ranch home that once belonged to Edith Head, the legendary costume designer.
While trickle-down economics are a farce, the notion of trickle-down health costs isn't.
As this year's Pro Bowl game — a dull farce of up-and-down the field passing with no intensity or hitting at all — showed, neither the N.F.L.'s overseers nor its players has quite figured out how to make a passing-driven version of the game work without at least some controlled violence.
