farce

The world has shifted off its axis since that relatively halcyon time when identity politics, the subject of FastHorse’s farce, could be debated, mocked, ranted over and defended without fear of governmental reprisal.

Patricia's statement described her son's funeral as a "total farce" with the family's grief overshadowed by the presence of too many politicians.

And Michael, whom I’ve collaborated with for 13 years, wanted to direct a farce.

His opponents reject the process as "a farce".

Mexican intellectuals have accused the movie of reducing the country’s horrific drug wars — which have killed nearly half a million people, with more than 100,000 missing, in this century alone — to a song-and-dance farce.