Farce

/färs/

noun

1. a type of comedy that relies on absurd, highly improbable situations, exaggerated characters, and physical humor

Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.

- Professor George Pierce Baker (1866-1935)

2. a ridiculous or absurd situation or event

Life's a farce, so we might as well make it a good one.

- Shūji Tsushima (1909-1948)