A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.
John Ratzenberger

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
James Madison

Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play.
Peter Shaffer

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.
Chuck Jones

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
John Mortimer

Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.
George P. Baker

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Karl Marx

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.
Mary Wollstonecraft

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.
George P. Baker

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
Jean Anouilh

It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
Arthur Rimbaud

Royal Canadian Air Farce, and I was in three sketches there. And they wrote some really great stuff for me.
Trish Stratus

The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
James Thurber

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
Steven Weinberg

The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
Francois Rabelais

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
Mark Twain

When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of either properly evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public.
Elena Kagan

You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction.
Helmut Jahn

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.
Bono