Sentence examples for farce work from inspiring English sources

Since then, as if making up for lost time, the range and brilliance of his writing have been phenomenal, encompassing light comedy, farce, work plays, fantasies, plays of ideas, biographical plays, to say nothing of his highly successful translations from Russian, a language he learned during his National Service.

Every ritual that could go wrong – whether office party, unsuitable gifts given and received, a shopping centre Santa, marital sex in the parental home or drinks for locals – does so horribly, in a programme that proves what The Worst Week of My Life suggested: that Bussell and Sbresni have made physical farce work on television as well as Michael Frayn and Alan Ayckbourn did on stage.

The long con however, which is the most original aspect to the show, comes through his choice of escape; Marius actually takes on the identity his former cellmate, Pete, reunites with Pete's estranged family, and somehow uses up an entire season attempting make that whole farce work on a "con a day keeps the bad men away" sort of shtick.

Christiane's children scramble to find her stash of East German currency before it becomes worthless, and one feels the presence of some half-remembered Continental farce working its way through the plot.

(In fairness, I don't think anyone could do much with the lovers' dialogue between Ms. Barrett and Freddy Arsenault, as her society swain.) Joe Orton, the great, subversive comic playwright of swinging London, insisted that farce worked only when played sincerely.

You cannot escape the Shakespearian element, the mechanics of comedy and farce that work through the novel, and towards the last third there comes the inevitability that the paths of Lee and Peggy, Mireille and Byrdie will collide in the future.

The old rule says that farce only works when it punctures bourgeois respectability.

"Blood Simple" gets almost all its limited charge from sticking to this device, which gives the movie the pattern of farce — it works best when someone misinterprets who the enemy is but has the right response anyway.

"Waiting," a witless farce about working at a chain restaurant, belongs in a circle of gross-out hell somewhere below "Porky's" and slightly above the recent Jenny McCarthy debacle, "Dirty Love".

But last weekend saw his latest comedy – Unfinished Business, a farce about a work trip which gets out of hand – become the biggest flop of his career so far, with toxic reviews and audience apathy.

The scene is played as farce and so works all right.