滑稽剧

Our school dramas tend towards comedy and farce.

学校编排的戏剧倾向于喜剧和滑稽剧。

It was like a Whitehall farce the way I was sent from department to department and everyone said it was someone else’s job to help me.

这就像一个英国政府滑稽剧：被从一个门打发另一个门，每个人都说帮助是他人的事。