舞台上的鬧劇
這一支就是字根本身：farce 這個劇種變成形容詞。
adjective · C1
Used about a play or a film that makes people laugh by dropping its characters into silly situations that keep getting more tangled.
鬧劇式的（戲劇、電影）
核心畫面
Start on a stage. A farce is the kind of play where a small lie leads to a hiding place, the hiding place leads to a bigger lie, four doors open and close at the wrong moments, and the audience can see the whole mess that the characters cannot. Farcical means belonging to that world. Point it at a play and you are naming a type of comedy. Point it at a meeting, a match or an election and you are saying something sharper: this was supposed to be real, and it is being run as though it were that play.
先把畫面放到舞台上。farce 是那種戲：一個小謊引出一個藏身處，藏身處又引出更大的謊，四道門在最不對的時機開開關關…更多收起
先把畫面放到舞台上。farce 是那種戲：一個小謊引出一個藏身處，藏身處又引出更大的謊，四道門在最不對的時機開開關關，觀眾看得一清二楚，台上的人卻一無所知。farcical 就是「屬於那個世界的」。用它形容一齣戲，是在指一種喜劇類型。用它形容一場會議、一場比賽、一次選舉，話就重了：這件事本來是真的，現在卻像在演那齣戲。From the word’s history
Wiktionary gives the word as farce + -ical, formed after comical. The adjective therefore points straight back at the stage genre, which is why the theatrical use is the more basic of the two even though the critical use is the one people meet more often.
Wiktionary 說這個字是 farce 加 -ical，構詞方式比照 comical。所以這個形容詞的根就指向舞台上的劇種——也因此，講戲劇的那個意思才是比較基本的那一個，雖然大家更常遇到的是拿來批評的用法。
Wiktionary, 'farcical' etymology 1 ('From farce + -ical, after comical etc.'), as supplied in this packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:768707544)
Two branches
現實演成了鬧劇
把舞台那套亂法搬到真實的事情上——差別在於，真實的事本來不該是這樣，所以這個字一用就變成批評。
adjective · C1
So silly, so badly organized, or so far from what was supposed to happen that the whole thing stops looking serious and starts looking like a joke.
荒謬可笑的；像鬧劇的