History repeats itself,” Marx famously wrote, “first as tragedy, second as farce.
As Marx said, history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce.
As The Sting Man shows, Abscam was becoming so outrageous that it was turning into an American farce.
Those remarks turned a political case into a farce that involved corruption and sexual trysts.
I have said from day one that this round of peace negotiations is a farce and this week is proof that they absolutely are.
What a farce it was to talk to her about helping those poor fellows!
Burlesque, farce and extravagance of situation and dialogue.
His lower orders are all food for comedy or farce: he will not treat them seriously.
We did not want the farce, that night, even as our rightful due.
The world is a stage, and life is a farce, and he that laughs most has most profit of the performance.
late 14c., "force-meat, stuffing;" 1520s, as a type of dramatic work, from Middle French farce "comic interlude in a mystery play" (16c.), literally "stuffing," from Old French farcir "to stuff," (13c.), from Latin farcire "to stuff, cram," of unknown origin, perhaps related to frequens "crowded."
The pseudo-Latin farsia was applied 13c. in France and England to praise phrases inserted into liturgical formulae (e.g. between kyrie and eleison), then in Old French farce was extended to the impromptu buffoonery among actors that was a feature of religious stage plays.
