noun
1. a comedy that depends for its humor on quick and surprising turns of events and on exaggerated characters and situations, or the type of humor characteristic of such a play.
Oscar Wilde’s famous farce, The Importance of Being Ernest, carries the subtitle “A trivial comedy for serious people.”
2. anything improbable, absurd, or empty of meaning; mockery; sham.
With just one candidate, the election seemed a farce to many people.