Today’s Daily Post Writing Prompt: Farce
Featured Image: Farce du Cuvier (1896) by Henri Jules Jean Geoffroy. (Source)
A farce is a terribly-timed joke, an absurdity, absurd event, or an improbable situation. The idea of a face makes one slap their forehead and ask if you’re “for real.”
Slapstick, buffoonery, and vaudeville are all farces.
Something that devolves into a farce often goes into shambles.
Other ways to describe “farce”:
Mockery
Travesty
Sham
Pretense
Masquarade
Joke
A total waste of time
Skillfully exploited
This YouTube playlist, which provides visual examples of farce:
Allison's Written Words