Farce: Difference between revisions

* [[P. G. Wodehouse]] was the master of the literary farce. Everything flows from one misunderstanding or blunder to another, culminating to a perfect mess and an even more perfect rescue.

* ''[[Fawlty Towers]]'' follows this formula quite closely, most episodes a snowballing sequence of things going from bad to worse via a combination of bad luck and [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist|Basil Fawlty's]] own magnetism for karmic retribution.

* ''[[I Love Lucy]]'' (without the innuendo and double entendres)

* ''[['Allo 'Allo!]]''.

* Farce was popularized by Georges Feydeau, whose ''La Puce a l'oreille'' (A Flea in Her Ear) was one of the earliest examples of the classic form.

* [[Oscar Wilde]]'s ''[[The Importance of Being Earnest]]''

* Then there was Joe Orton, the 'Oscar Wilde of the Welfare State gentility,' who mixed farce and black comedy to hilarious effect.

* ''Boeing Boeing''

* ''[[Lend Me a Tenor]]''

* ''Rumors'' (Neil Simon)

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