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	Arafat's Bedroom Farce - article by Daniel Pipes
		Arafat's Bedroom Farce - article by Daniel Pipes
		Yet his farcical death-scene provides perhaps the appropriate coda to an unworthy life.
		The farce is complete, and Arafat dies as wretchedly as he lived.
	www.danielpipes.org /article/2203 (1425 words)

	farce. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The farce emerged as a separate genre in 15th-century France with such plays as the anonymous La farce de Maître Pierre Pathelin (c.1470).
		In England two of the earliest and best-known farces are Ralph Roister Doister (1566) and Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors (c.1593).
		In the 20th cent., farce found new expression in the films of Charlie Chaplin, the Keystone Kops, and the Marx Brothers.
	www.bartleby.com /65/fa/farce.html (247 words)

	Farce - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Many farces move at a frantic pace toward the climax, in which the initial problem is resolved one way or another, often through a deus ex machina twist of the plot.
		Farce in general is highly tolerant of transgressive behavior, and tends to depict human beings as vain, irrational, venal, infantile, and prone to automatism.
		Farce is considered to be a theatre tradition.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Farce (693 words)

	Farce Links
		Farce is a type of comedy that uses absurd and highly improbable events in the plot.
		The choice of setting is a key factor in farce, as the protagonist is sometimes at odds with the environment.
		It is important to note that farce is both a verbal and physical humour, using deliberate character exaggeration by the actor.
	www.theatrelinks.com /farce.htm (400 words)

	Bedroom farce - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A bedroom farce is a type of light drama, centered on the sexual pairings and recombinations of characters as they move through improbable plots.
		The bedroom farce is perhaps the most common form of farce.
		The Viennese playwright Arthur Schnitzler took bedroom farce to its highest dramatic level in his La Ronde, which in ten bedroom scenes connects the highest and lowest of Vienna.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bedroom_farce (192 words)

	Farce Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A farce is a comedy written for the stage which tries to entertain the audience by means of unlikely and extravagant yet possible situations, mistaken identities, crude verbal humour including puns and sexual innuendo, and a fast-paced plot whose speed usually increases even further towards the end of the play.
		The subject-matters chosen by the various writers of farce reflect the social mores of the time: In the late 19th century, it can be a woman lying about her real age, or a man having an illegitimate child.
		As far as ridiculous, far-fetched situations and quick and witty repartee are concerned, there are parallels between farces on the one hand and TV sitcoms (such as John Cleese's Fawlty Towers) and, in film, screwball comedies on the other.
	www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/f/fa/farce.html (549 words)

	Farce - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Farce, form of drama intended to excite laughter through exaggeration and extravagance rather than by realistic imitation of life.
		Farce refined becomes high comedy, farce brutalized becomes tragedy.
		There is no greater farce than to talk of democracy.
	au.encarta.msn.com /Farce.html (98 words)

	farce - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about farce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The term ‘bedroom farce’ relates to a common farcical situation revolving around extramarital relationships.
		Originating in the physical knockabout comedy of Greek satyr plays and the broad humour of medieval religious drama, the farce was developed and perfected during the 19th century by Eugène Labiche (1815–1888) and Georges Feydeau (1862–1921) in France and Arthur Pinero (1835–1934) in England.
		I had a sufficiently hard time with that tale, because it changed itself from a farce to a tragedy while I was going along with it--a most embarrassing circumstance.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /farce (305 words)

	Roughing It: The Role of Farce in the Little Rascals Comedies
		Two centuries later, George Bernard Shaw claimed that the public's interest in farce was akin to its interest in ``the public flogging of a criminal,'' and that farce appealed to ``the deliberate indulgence of that horrible, derisive joy in humiliation and suffering which is the beastliest element in human nature''(Quoted in Davis 22).
		The other is that farce is governed by unreason, and is therefore characterized in varying degrees by aggression, anarchic subversion, wish-fulfilling spontaneity, and festivity.
		Farce, as it functions in the Little Rascals films, is mainly of the Deception type, though at least the suggestion of humiliation is present in any farcical situation.
	www.leoyan.com /global-language.com/triggs/Rascals.html (4796 words)

	Royal Canadian Air Farce, The
		Like the radio show, Air Farce is topical, on the edge of controversy, and performed in front of a live audience.
		The Air Farce keeps in touch with Canadians and ensures that their humour remains relevant by performing and recording in all ten provinces and two territories.
		When the Farce first tried a television show in 1981, it was shot in advance and produced with canned laughter.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/R/htmlR/royalcanadia/royalcanadia.htm (550 words)

	Roger Boylan: A Mostly Irish Farce
		Farce, declares the Encyclopædia Britannica, is “a form of the comic in dramatic art, the object of which is to excite laughter by ridiculous situations and incidents.” I would go further: farce is life, only more so.
		Farce has been acknowledged as a powerful force at least since the time of ancient Greece, when it ruled the satire-dramas of Aristophanes and Menander.
		As one of the novelist’s duties is to capture the evanescent in everyday life, capturing the spirit of farce is one way to ensure that posterity will relate, just as today’s playgoers laugh at the buffoon antics in Plautus and Aristophanes.
	www.bostonreview.net /BR28.6/boylan.html (1303 words)

	BA luggage farce deepens as bags are sent to Italy \| the Daily Mail
		BA luggage farce deepens as bags are sent to Italy
		The British Airways lost luggage farce deepened last night when it emerged that the airline is sending thousands of bags out of Heathrow to be sorted through in Milan, only for them then to be sent back to England.
		Heaps of the baggage are being sent to cheap sub-contractors in Italy to be sorted - and some of the luggage despatched there is then being sent on to its owners' destinations after the passengers have finished their trips and returned home.
	www.dailymail.co.uk /pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=426533&in_page_id=1770 (1150 words)

	Olivier Chapuis - Monsieur Farce - direction Jean Boillot
		Thus was born Monsieur Farce, a distant relative of the brute creatures of Dubuffet, thus this character was born, a blend of self-conceit and naivety, funny through his weaknesses and cruelty, and who only knows, fundamentally, how to repeat his own death …
		Already in his first play, Monsieur Farce, the style is very sure, full of short-circuits and unexpected situations.
		The crazy little twilights offered by the Depressive, a contemporary type which Farce is a comical example of: seven battles, seven deaths.
	www.theatre-contemporain.net /spectacles/monsieur_farce/presentationus.htm (516 words)

	Metromix. Chicago Shakespeare's 'Flea' a fine, fit farce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		I spent most of that time staring at all the stuff on the walls of the hotel, even as some of the shtick was swallowed up by pink paint.
		For connoisseurs of le farce, "A Flea in Her Ear" has its pleasures (it not-so-subtly even reveals that the French capacity for jingoism was alive and well in 1907).
		Farce is a particular skill and, despite direction that's smart and laudable fast-paced, it's on display here only intermittently (these things take time to jell).
	metromix.chicagotribune.com /reviews/critics/mmx-gt627bd3f.7mar21,0,5147529.story?coll=mmx-critics_heds (639 words)

	farce - Wiktionary
		A low style of comedy or a dramatic composition marked by low humour and broad improbabilities and often written with little regard to regularity or method
		The farce that we saw last night had us laughing and shaking our heads at the same time.
		The political arena is a mere farce, with all sorts of fools trying to grab power.
	en.wiktionary.org /wiki/farce (97 words)

	Rumsfeld Prohibits Cell Phone Cameras In Iraq Or Does He? The Daily Farce News Writer Has ESP Powers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A British newspaper named "The Business" which we, at The Daily Farce News, could not track down printed a story on Sunday May 23, 2004 that allegedly quoted a Pentagon source saying that Donald Rumsfeld prohibited digital cameras in Iraq.
		This story was then picked up by the AFP and published as a story on their site, which was then picked up by other news sites (see links below at the end of this story) throughout Europe.
		The Daily Farce News published a very similar story on May 6, 2004 (almost 3 weeks ago) announcing, of course, as a satirical story, that Donald Rumsfeld would prohibit digital cameras and cell phones with cameras in Iraq (see related story at the end of this article).
	www.thedailyfarce.com /national.cfm?story=2004/05/national_mrlewinhasesppowers_05200400027 (554 words)

	Farce - Facts from the Encyclopedia - Yahoo! Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		farce, light, comic theatrical piece in which the characters and events are greatly exaggerated to produce broad, absurd humor.
		Early examples of farce can be found in the comedies of Aristophanes, Plautus, and Terence.
		plays called "bedroom farces," best exemplified in the works of Feydeau, were popular.
	messenger.yahooligans.com /reference/encyclopedia/entry?id=16437 (249 words)

	Royal Canadian Air Farce - What's New
		Air Farce stars Roger Abbott, Don Ferguson and Luba Goy were joined this season by an honour roll of weekly guest stars, including Jayne Eastwood, Peter Keleghan, Colin Mochrie, Patrick McKenna, Sheila McCarthy and Sonja Smits.
		Unlike CBC’s landmark history series, the Air Farce version is viewer-friendly for a short attention span, and presents the entire Canadian story in less than a half-hour.
		The Royal Canadian Air Farce troupe (Roger Abbott, Don Ferguson, Luba Goy and John Morgan) were inducted to the Canadian "Walk of Fame" at a gala ceremony at Roy Thomson Hall on June 23, 2000t.
	www.farce.com /info/20012002.html (6102 words)

	Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - Bedroom Farce - 11/22/03
		The best joke of Alan Ayckbourn's Bedroom Farce is the title, which conjures up images of spicy sex romps, slamming doors, and sublimely ridiculous misunderstandings, only to deliver on none of those things.
		The downside of this is that everyone involved must invest twice as much effort to make the show work; no one can just rest on his or her laurels in hopes the comedy will come.
		While Bedroom Farce isn't populated with archetypal characters to begin with, it benefits from the suggestion that the eight people it chronicles - who might put on very normal faces when dealing with the outside world - are very different people in their most personal and private of sanctuaries.
	www.talkinbroadway.com /ob/11_22_03.html (609 words)

	Amazon.ca: DVD: Save up to 30% on bestselling DVDs. Free shipping within Canada available on orders over $39 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In an attempt to catch lightning in a bottle, Monty Python veteran John Cleese wrote this slapstick farce for the purpose of reuniting the comedic cast of A Fish Called Wanda.
		My Favorite Wife is a fast-paced, delightful farce that sparkles from beginning to end.
		A likable 1977 French farce (and the basis for the 1996 American remake, The Birdcage), this popular comedy was one of the most successful international films of all time, and even spawned a Broadway musical and two sequels.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/964926 (481 words)

	Saget Penguin 'FARCE' Attracts Major Talent
		Mo'Nique stars next in "Phat Girlz." Tracy Morgan is currently filming the Wayans Brothers' picture "The Little Man." FARCE OF THE PENGUINS is a comedic wildlife adventure/love story that combines spectacular live-action penguin footage with an irreverent and decidedly R-rated theme and soundtrack.
		The story concerns one penguin's search for love while on a 70-mile trek with his libidinous buddies on their way to a hedonistic mating ritual.
		Saget says, "The idea for this is pretty simple -- I was watching the 'March' movie at a screening at my friend's house, and being the adolescent that I am, I couldn't stop doing the voice-overs of the penguins, reminiscent of when I did those animal voices on that video show back in the day.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-27-2006/0004327787&EDATE= (576 words)

	farce on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Theatre: Two defectives in the police farce; THE LYING KIND Royal Court Theatre London.(Features)
		If only Rix was still around to drop his trousers for the WRU; Maestro of farce could cover for blaz...
		FARCE [farce] light, comic theatrical piece in which the characters and events are greatly exaggerated to produce broad, absurd humor.
	encyclopedia.infonautics.com /html/f1/farce.asp (405 words)

	Royal Canadian Air Farce - Official Site of Canada's #1 Comedy
		From Corner Gas, Fred Ewanuick is joining the Farce, along with his Young Triffie co-star Mary Walsh, who conceived This Hour Has 22 Minutes and Hatching, Matching and Dispatching.
		The Farce’s latest recruit is Penelope Corrin, who starred during Jessica’s maternity leave, and returns for the 300th episode.
		AIR FARCE 300 LIVE airs Friday, March 30 at 8:00 PM, 9 Atlantic, 9:30 Newfoundland/Labrador, on CBC Television.
	www.airfarce.com (594 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Theater/Arts / Lyric Stage's 'Shakespeare' isa tour de farce
		The screwball comedy is set in 1934, during the shooting of ''A Midsummer Night's Dream," the only film directed by visionary European theatrical impresario Max Reinhardt.
		Lights, camera, action -- there's plenty of it in Ken Ludwig's fantastical farce ''Shakespeare in Hollywood," receiving its New England premiere at the Lyric Stage Company.
		Somehow, none of the actors loses his place, despite an ever-increasing number of complex mismatches in act two.
	www.boston.com /ae/theater_arts/articles/2005/05/11/lyric_stages_shakespeare_isa_tour_de_farce (552 words)

	Royal Canadian Air Farce - Tickets
		Air Farce is currently on its usual summer break.
		Tickets to the 2006-07 season of Air Farce will become available starting on Tuesday, September 5, 2006 (the day after Labour Day), here at www.airfarce.com/tickets and on our ticket hotline 416.205.5050.
		Thanks, and May the Farce Be With You!
	www.airfarce.com /tickets (119 words)

	Delta Farce - Rotten Tomatoes
		Too afraid to be a real satire of the Iraq War, Delta Farce instead devolves into a reprehensible, unfunny mix of slapstick, gay panic, and flatulence jokes.
		No one expects Delta Farce to compete with The Godfather or Titanic for Academy Awards supremacy, but you would expect everyone involved to try harder to be funnier instead of repeating every joke over and over again.
		This is a movie where the villains are the comic relief for the comedians, and where the outtakes at the end are better than the film.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/delta_farce (1125 words)

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		The system is indeed a farce and in order to make certain that the Fathers rights are addressed.
		We are pleased to announce the formation of F.A.R.C.E. of RIGHTS an CUSTODY EQUALITY.
		Our main purpose will be to insure proper education and legal assistance to any Father faced with the custody or the separation from their child.
	www.farce.org (162 words)

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