the.com/farce
comedy that runs so fast the plot has to trip over its own trousers.
means a broad comic style built on absurd situations, mistaken identity, and physical chaos, played dead serious by everyone in it.
from from old french farcir, to stuff — medieval actors literally stuffed comic filler bits into religious plays, and the padding took over the show.
stuffing originsame root as forcemeat, the stuffing you eat
door countclassic stage farces average six or more doors
speed ruletraditionally performed almost twice normal talking speed
feydeau's lawgeorges feydeau built entire plots on one lie snowballing
for instance
fawlty towers — 1975 sitcom, basil fawlty's lies collapsing in real time
noises off — 1982 michael frayn play, a farce about staging a farce