farce
/fɑːs/noun
1- a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations闹剧, 笑剧, 滑稽戏。
1.1
- mass noun the genre of such works闹（或笑）剧类作品。
1.2
- an absurd event荒唐事; 〈喻〉闹剧：
the debate turned into a drunken farce.
那场辩论最后变成了一场酒后闹剧。
词源
early 16th cent.: from French, literally 'stuffing', from farcir 'to stuff', from Latin farcire. An earlier sense of 'forcemeat stuffing' became used metaphorically for comic interludes 'stuffed' into the texts of religious plays, whence current usage.