Farce

Webster's Practical Dictionary- A Practical Dictionary of the Englih Language · 1884 · p. 151

fars, n. (Cookery.) Stuffing, like that used in dre ing a fowl; force-meat. A low style of comedy; ridiculous or empty show. — Far'cical, -sT-kal, a. Pert, or appropriated to farce; ludicrous: deceptive.