[f. as prec. -ER1. Cf. F. farceur.] One who writes or acts a farce.
1791–1823. D’Israeli, Cur. Lit. (1859), II. 132. These were rather the low humour of the Mimes, than of the Atellan Farcers.
1813. J. Forsyth, Remarks Excurs. Italy, 300, note. [Some] consider Punch as a lineal representation of the Atellan farcers.
1813. W. Taylor, in Monthly Rev., LXX. 459. When a nation has once produced a great farcer … it produces nothing else that is great.
