farce
Pronunciation: /fɑːs/
noun
- a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations: he toured the backwoods in second-rate farces
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- an event or situation that is absurd or disorganized: the debate turned into a drunken farce
Origin:
early 16th century: from French, literally 'stuffing', from farcir 'to stuff', from Latin farcire. An earlier sense of 'forcemeat stuffing' became used metaphorically for comic interludes ‘stuffed’ into the texts of religious plays, which led to the current usage