farceur

Don't overlook the outraged public as farceur in this romp.

Dietrich apparently juggled her lovers with the accomplishment of a French farceur.

He is a good comic-actor without being a farceur, and pleasing without being anything more."

But when he's right on track, as he is in most of "Blind Date," he's an unbeatable farceur.

Mr. Kline, the star around whom everything revolves, is a marvelous farceur badly miscast here.

He was also the father of the farceur Charles-Maurice Hennequin.

Le Farceur (1889)

Le farceur (1960)

Heller, with whom the farceur Edwards shared great rapport, dreaming up new pratfalls for his performance nearly every rehearsal, had already approached him on stage.

Perhaps the greatest farceur was the French dramatist Georges Feydeau, 1862-1921.

This "trickster is tricked" theme, and that of the cuckolded husband, were the main preoccupations of the medieval farceur.

Sacré farceur (1978)

If the Scottish novelist Alan Warner weren't so gloomy, he might be a profanely raucous farceur.

What the world didn't know was James Daly, the poet and the farceur, Ms. Daly said.

He began his career as a farceur and impressionist, working as a voice artist throughout the 1980s on satirical puppet show Spitting Image.

It works because Crenna is an expert farceur and Peters is, well, cute and full of the old ginger.

Umberto Eco, the author of a lighthearted little book called "Misreadings," is a farceur of language who could probably turn a timetable into semiology.

Yesyes himalone le petit farceur!

As any farceur can attest, it is a deadly serious game, which is to say if the actor doesn't take it seriously he is dead on stage.

Ms. Graham takes deadlier aim as a social farceur, providing choice caricatures of unsavory servants, pushy parvenus and the bloodiest of bores.

The farceur Ralph Lynn was not "Lynne," while the showman "Cochrane" was Cochran.

As if in compensation, note the dashing performance of Jerome Kilty (Vandergelder, a droll presence and a master farceur).

Un vieux farceur (Léon - Nadot)

Le Farceur avec Michel Galabru et Charles Berling.

Ben Travers, master farceur, celebrated 1927 with "Thark," remembered now largely for a sepulchral servant called Death ("What time would you like your call, sir?")