Difference between Comedy and Farce

What is the difference between Comedy and Farce?

Comedy as a noun is archaic greece. a choric song of celebration or revel while Farce as a noun is a style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method; compare sarcasm

Comedy

Part of speech: noun

Definition: archaic Greece. a choric song of celebration or revel ancient Greece. a light, amusing play with a happy ending medieval Europe. a narrative poem with an agreeable ending (e.g., The Divine Comedy) A dramatic work that is light and humorous or satirical in tone The genre of such works entertainment composed of jokes, satire, or humorous performance the art of composing comedy a humorous event

Example sentence: The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it's so much fun.

Farce

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method; compare sarcasmA motion picture or play featuring this style of humor.A situation abounding with ludicrous incidentsA ridiculous or empty show

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

We hope you now know whether to use Comedy or Farce in your sentence.

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