The film is a comic farce set in Italy in the 1960s, playing-off the interaction between English and Italian stereotypes.

In the comic farce, a group of high-powered prime movers attends a party to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Deputy Mayor of New York City.

Notice, too, how the implied danger keeps a dark current of satire running through the comic farce.

His best-known piece is the 4-part historical comic farce When Lithuania Ruled the World.

During the 1940s and 1950s, the staple fare at the Abbey was comic farce set in the idealised peasant world of Éamon de Valera.

In the theater, "American Buffalo" has been staged as everything from a black comic farce to a cutthroat melodrama.

The first half of the film has the predominant tone and style of a comic farce.

Ephram, Eagleton and Thump are a trio of unworldly but thoroughly well-intentioned gentleman bachelors that inject comic farce into the proceedings.

The play then turns into a comic farce on the nature of imagination, truth and personal freedom.